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- Customer Data Quality Platform from Pitney Bowes Business Insight - a Butler Group Technology Audit report
- Pitney Bowes Customer Data Quality Platform CDQP is a domain-specific customer data quality management system that enables tasks such as integration, cleansing, matching, profiling, monitoring, and enriching the data with location and demographic information. For most B2C companies, accurate customer data and a single consolidated view of the customer is...
- Tags: Butler Group, Data Quality, Audit, Pitney Bowes Inc., Pitney Bowes Customer Data Quality Platform, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-08-24
- Data Quality Considerations for a Master Data Management Structure
- Companies acquiring companies. Human Resources sharing information with Finance. Businesses spanning multiple countries. What do all of these scenarios have in common? The sharing of data. What is the critical need shared by all of these scenarios? Data management. Master Data Management, to be exact. In today's business environment, mergers...
- Tags: Data Quality, Pitney Bowes Inc., Master Data Management
- White papers 2009-08-24
- Improving the Accuracy of Spend Analysis through Data Quality
- Organisations can spend as much as 60 percent of revenue to acquire the goods and services necessary to conduct business. Procurement professionals are being asked to reduce the organisation's overall spend, while simultaneously improving supplier collaboration. Companies now realise more than ever the effect of procurement strategies on their profitability...
- Tags: Data Quality, DataFlux Corp., Procurement, Analysis, Procurement Professional, Product Data, Purchasing & Procurement, Databases, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-04-30
- Towards Data Quality and Data Mining Using Constraints in XML
- Quality data is necessary for different data mining techniques and reversely, data mining techniques can be utilized to measure quality of data. Data mining and data quality issues got much attention for relational data in past. But, as a massive amount of data is being stored and represented over the...
- Tags: Data Quality, XML, University Of South Australia, Quality Data, Data Mining Technique, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing
- White papers 2009-03-01
- LynxProfiler 1.4.1 (Windows)
- Our powerful data profiling software runs on all Microsoft supported Windows platforms, and is capable of profiling almost any database. Using the Lynx Profiler you can assess the validity, completeness and consistency of the data in your organization. The LynxProfiler can identify: Incorrectly formatted fields for instance postcodes, phone numbers,...
- Tags: Data Quality, Data, Microsoft Windows, DataLynx, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-02-23
- Observing Data Quality Service Level Agreements
- This white paper by David Loshin from Knowledge Integrity examines how to measure data quality and what to do when the data does not meet the level of acceptability. When a data quality service level agreement is in place, when issues are logged in a data quality incident tracking system,...
- Tags: Data Quality, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-01-16
- Populating a Data Quality Scorecard with Relevant Metrics
- Too often, data governance teams rely on existing measurements as the metrics used to populate a data quality scorecard. But without a defined understanding of the relationship between specific measurement scores and the business's success criteria, it is difficult to determine how to react to emergent data quality issues -...
- Tags: Data Quality, DataFlux Corp., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2009-01-16
- SAP BusinessObjects Data Services: One Product for Data Quality and Data Integration
- The challenge was maintaining data quality within data integration and migration projects and providing the agility and access to data necessary to meet business as well as government and legal standards. SAP BusinessObjects Data Services software provides wide-ranging data-quality features to support virtually any type of data, regardless of industry...
- Tags: Data Service, Data Quality, SAP AG, Data Integration, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-12-01
- Building a Data Quality Scorecard for Operational Data Governance
- " Operational data governance is the manifestation of the processes and protocols necessary to ensure that an acceptable level of confidence in the data effectively satisfies the organization's business needs. In this white paper, David Loshin from Knowledge Integrity examines how a data governance program defines the roles, responsibilities, and...
- Tags: Data Quality, DataFlux Corp., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-10-09
- Business Optimization - 5 Important Steps to Successful Performance Management and BI: An Analyst's Perspective
- Successful companies today use information to optimize their business and drive sustainable competitive advantage. However, many organizations struggle to make their information work for them. They face data fragmented across multiple systems, enormous data latency and data quality challenges. In addition, even if the information is available, adoption by...
- Tags: Data Quality, Performance, Optimization, IBM Corp., Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Databases, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Webcasts 2008-08-06
- Aggregate Profiler 4.10 (Windows)
- 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, Microsoft Windows, Analysis, Arrah Technology, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2008-07-22
- Data Sets and Data Quality in Software Engineering
- Objective - to assess the extent and types of techniques used to manage quality within software engineering data sets. It considers this a particularly interesting question in the context of initiatives to promote sharing and secondary analysis of data sets. Method - This paper performs a systematic review of available...
- Tags: Software, Software Engineering, Data Quality, Data Set, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2008-05-13
- The Information Perspective of SOA Design, Part 7: The Execution Approach for the Data Quality Analysis Pattern in SOA
- This is the seventh paper in a series called the "The Information Aspect of SOA Design." The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate to an architect community the execution approach of detailed data quality analysis in the context of an SOA environment. This paper focuses on the implementation of...
- Tags: Data Quality, SOA, IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Databases, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-05-08
- The Information Perspective of SOA Design, Part 6: The Value of Applying the Data Quality Analysis Pattern in SOA
- For SOA services to be successful and reusable, it is important that the data they expose is of acceptable quality for all the consumers. Exposing quality data is necessary in any SOA initiative. Whether it is application services being exposed or a simple generated data query service, the resulting data...
- Tags: Data Quality, Data, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-04-17
- Ensuring Premium Data Quality and Precision at One of Switzerland's Leading Health Insurance Providers
- CONCORDIA AG is one of Switzerland's top five health insurance companies. The company wanted to ensure complete data quality and integrity across its production and development environment. The challenge was to introduce new DB2 database definitions and structures into production without errors occurring. CONCORDIA deployed BMC software for its solution...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Health Insurance, Data Quality, Health Care, IBM DB2, It Management, Databases, It service Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-04-01
- Group-Aware Stream Filtering for Bandwidth-Efficient Data Dissemination
- This paper is concerned with disseminating high-volume data streams to many simultaneous applications over a low-bandwidth wireless mesh network. For bandwidth efficiency, they propose a group-aware stream filtering approach, used in conjunction with multicasting, that exploits two overlooked, yet important, properties of these applications, many applications can tolerate some degree...
- Tags: Data Quality, Application, Aware, Dartmouth College, Mesh Networking, Databases, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-03-06
- 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
- TechNet Webcast: Mining for Quality: Apply Adaptive Data Quality With SQL Server Data Mining (Level 200)
- Good quality data is essential to a successful business intelligence application. Most of them are probably aware that Microsoft SQL Server includes some useful data quality tools such as Fuzzy Grouping or Fuzzy Lookup. However, there is one tool people may have overlooked - SQL Server Data Mining. When used...
- Tags: Data Quality, Webcast, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft TechNet, Quality Data, Business Intelligence, Databases, Data Mining, Pricing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing
- Webcasts 2008-01-17
- 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
- Data Quality: The Indispensable Element of Business Intelligence
- Without a doubt, Business Intelligence BI applications have successfully made their way into the hearts and minds of business users. BI systems are no longer the domain of IT departments. Each day, BI-based corporate dashboards are facilitating well-informed decisions by synthesizing, filtering and serving up bottom line numbers, facts and...
- Tags: Data Quality, ITNetwork365, Business Intelligence System, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2008-01-01
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