Tag Archives: Data Structure

Will Best Practice Keep Your Data Quality Boat Afloat?

Some of attendees at a recent workshop that I ran told me that data quality was assured in their enterprise because they always followed industry best practice.  On the surface this seems to be a compelling argument.  If you are … Continue reading

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There's No Such Thing as a Customer!

“Customer” is one of the Data Enitities that lies at the heart of most MDM practices in enterprises around the world and it is not in fact a Data Entity at all! This situation has arisen because far too much “data quality” work is done without the use of a properly structured Logical Data Model. This work then serves to perpetuate rather than remove fragmented data structures. Continue reading

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A Data Quality Profession?

Do We Need a Data Quality Profession? In a recent article on Data Quality Arkady Maydanchik was suggesting that a key solution to the current data quality issues that plague business everywhere is the creation of a dedicated Data Quality profession. … Continue reading

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