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- The Data Governance Maturity Model
- For any organisation, the first step to address the quality and value of corporate data is to take an honest assessment of the data management infrastructure. This DataFlux white paper introduces the Data Governance Maturity Model and explains how your organisation can use this model to understand the major issues...
- Tags: Data Quality, DataFlux Corp., Data Management, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2008-01-17
- Aggregate Profiler (zip)
- Aggregate profiler is data profiling and data quality tools from small and medium Business. It supports Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, and MA Access as data sources. Bin analysis, cluster analysis, table model info, metadata info, top/bottom count, filtering, and pattern analysis are supported. SQL interface, mapping to different formats, importing...
- Tags: Data Quality, SQL, Analysis, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2008-01-15
- Get Clean, Stay Clean - Competitive Advantage through data quality
- The purported benefits of advanced IT investment are many. Systems promise to provide executives with comprehensive, timely, and accurate data to support better decision making. Whether the strategic goal is better customer targeting and servicing Customer Relationship Management, streamlined logistics Enterprise Resource Planning, or an integrated view of the enterprise...
- Tags: Data Quality, Information Technology, Competitive Advantage, IT Investment, Netrics, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Comprehensive data quality With Oracle Data Integrator
- Poor-quality data afflicts almost every company of moderate size and operational complexity. In fact, inconsistent, inaccurate, incomplete, and out-of-date data are often the root cause of expensive business problems such as operational inefficiencies, faulty analysis for business optimization, unrealized economies of scale, and dissatisfied customers. Savvy IT managers can solve...
- Tags: Data Quality, Oracle Corp., Oracle Data Integrator, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Centerprise Integration Studio (exe)
- Key features of the product include: Extensive set transformation features including direct mapping, list and database lookups, and mapping expressions; Native support for SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Sybase, and Access databases and popular file formats; High speed data synchronization eliminates unnecessary data updates; Rule-based data validation helps ensure data quality;...
- Tags: Databases, .NET, Application servers, Enterprise software, Microsoft .NET, data quality, database, API, performance, server
- Software downloads 2007-10-11
- Making Data Work: Addressing data quality at the Enterprise Level - Realizing the True Value of Your Information Assets With Enterprise data quality and Data Integration
- Despite nearly 40 years of information technology advances, only now are some organizations realizing the true value of their corporate data. Increasing reliance on automated business processes, more stringent regulation, and the ever-increasing pitch of competition are driving organizations to focus on the data they use to run their business...
- Tags: Asset, Data Quality, Business Process, Informatica, Data Integration, Operational Planning, Databases, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-07-31
- data quality: The First Step on the Path to Master Data Management
- More stringent regulation and market competition mean that organizations need to establish better control and consistency of their master data and the business processes responsible for the capture and maintenance of such shared data. Many organizations are implementing master data management solutions - under a number of different labels, including...
- Tags: Data Quality, Informatica, Data Management, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-07-09
- How ACORD Can Be Used as a Best Practice for Data Integration
- This paper enlightens the reader on various strategies for benefiting from ACORD's IP. It explores a company's unique business requirements alongside internal and external influencing factors and offers targeted approaches to using ACORD standards for accomplishing data normalization. In addition, regardless of the strategy chosen, this paper discusses the management...
- Tags: Data Quality, Informatica, Data Integration, Best Practice, Databases, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2007-05-15
- Web-Based data quality Assurance Reports at the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC)
- A series of approximately 60 tables and reports has been developed for monitoring the quality of data submitted to the Uniform Data Set UDS of the National Alzheimers Coordinating Center NACC. Twenty-nine Alzheimers Disease Centers ADCs, funded by the National Institute on Aging NIA, submit data collected on standardized forms...
- Tags: Data Quality, Alzheimer's Disease, Web, QA, SAS Institute, Quality Assurance Supervision
- White papers 2007-05-14
- Spanish Winery Improves data quality and Security With Operating System Upgrade
- With operations in five separate locations across Spain, mobile technology is of the essence to vintner Grupo Matarromera. The company, therefore, was eager to implement the new Windows Vista operating system with its mobile devices. Now, Grupo Matarromera can get vital business data from its vineyards to its Virtual Private...
- Tags: Data Quality, Security, Winery, Mobile, Operating System, Advertising & Promotion, Databases, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2007-04-01
- Data Ownership and Enterprise Data Management: Implementing a Data Management Strategy (Part 3)
- An Enterprise Data Management EDM strategy involves getting the organizational structure right, selecting technologies that form an integrated EDM suite for handling all metadata management and data management needs, putting controls in place, and setting up data governance processes. These things together allow the enterprise to take control of data...
- Tags: Data Quality, Enterprise Data Management, Enterprise Data Management Strategy, Data Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-11-21
- Managing data quality
- Oracle Warehouse Builder is a design tool for modeling and maintaining a data warehouse. Its datasources are not limited to Oracle databases. Oracle Warehouse Builder also supports other databases, including DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, Informix, and Teradata. It also works with file and enterprise application datasources, so it supports the...
- Tags: Data Quality, Data Source, Oracle Corp., Oracle Warehouse Builder, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-11-01
- data quality, Compliance, and Risk for Financial Institutions
- Poor data quality is endemic in most financial institutions, with risk managers frequently citing a lack of clean, high-quality data as the biggest inhibitor to achieving their risk management and regulatory compliance objectives. To combat the problem, Informatica offers data quality scorecarding capabilities -- a metrics-driven...
- Tags: Data Quality, Informatica, Financial, Compliance, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-11-01
- Monitoring data quality Performance Using data quality Metrics
- Organizational data quality management is often introduced in reaction to acute problems traceable to how some data failure adversely affected the business. This reactive approach may be typified by a rush to identify, evaluate, and purchase technical solutions that may or may not address the manifestation of problems, as opposed...
- Tags: Data Quality, Monitoring, Data Quality Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-11-01
- Solving the data quality Problem
- This paper examines the nature, cause and impact of data quality problems in typical IT system implementations. It argues that the extent and impact of poor data quality is largely misunderstood and often ignored. It is proposed that the problem of poor data quality is primarily a behavioral problem, not...
- Tags: Data Quality, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-10-17
- Data Profiling Using OWB10gR2 and the data quality Option
- The Data Quality Option enables to convert the raw, staging data that comes into the reporting database into quality information. Using the features in this option, one can gain insight into the data and identify previously unknown data quality problems. Subsequently, it can create data rules and generate mappings to...
- Tags: Data Quality, Data Quality Option, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-10-16
- data quality Standards
- The quality of the geodata is important information in order to judge the reliability of analysis results obtained in a GIS or via a web service. To be ale to compare quality information the results have to be obtained based on the same concept and principles using the same data...
- Tags: Data Quality, Standards, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-10-13
- The CIO's Guide to Taking Data Asset Metrics to the Boardroom
- Data quality and data integration can affect all aspects of an organization. Without consistent, accurate and reliable data, companies cannot respond to trends and meet customer expectations. This white paper explains how reports on data quality initiatives can help executives understand the impact of data quality - and what CIOs...
- Tags: Asset, Data Quality, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-10-09
- data quality by the Numbers: Best Practices for Managing Business Data
- The use of data quality technology for customer data is far more prevalent than the use of the technology for business data. The reason for this imbalance has as much to do with the organizations that are acquiring data quality solutions as it does with data quality technology itself. Many...
- Tags: Data Quality, Best Practice, Business Data, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-09-14
- data quality and Regulatory Compliance: Watching Your Watchlists
- This paper offers a complete approach to watchlist compliance. There are other approaches, of course, approaches that leverage matching to the exclusion of other technologies and preparations. While matching is perhaps the focal technology in watchlist compliance, it might not produce - in isolation - the results needed for complete,...
- Tags: Data Quality, Compliance, SAS Institute, Regulatory Compliance
- White papers 2006-09-14
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