data discovery is useful in gaining insight as to the current state of the data landscape, however, data discovery is not a "silver bullet solution" to data quality, master data mangement or data governance initiatives.
Why? There are plenty of aspects of address validation to write about. Validating addresses can be done with many different tools, each with their own specific details on how to do it. There are various ways to validate address within each tool to produce different outcomes. And there are various ways to manage and integrate this data back into enterprise, operational systems. While all of this content is very...
Why? Address information, in particular customer address information, is a core asset of any business. It plays a pivotal role in two fundamental business operations; revenue assurance and revenue generation. Without valid, deliverable customer address information collecting payment for services or products is often a process that, at best, requires repetitive efforts that cost the business labor and resources (and dollars). At worst, the process fails to collect, creating an...
Recently I had coffee with Dr. John Talburt of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Information Quality program. During the conversation we exchanged experiences that we’ve both encountered while implementing data quality solutions, especially with regard to matching. One of the prevailing topics was the promotion of a master record from the duplicates. That’s when Dr. Talburt shared with me a perspective that I had not considered. He asserted that most...
Introduction I’ve recently made the shift from Informatica Data Quality / Data Explorer version 8.x to Informatica v9. In the process I have discovered quite a few shifts in how certain tasks are performed. Notice I called them shifts. I did so because after learning them, I didn’t feel as though there were fundamental changes. A prime example and the focus of this post is the source-to-target process. This process is so...
I've been in the clouds lately, in more ways than one. I've been on the road performing another data quality assessment on an island in the Pacific. This translates into the fact that I'm gaining status on multiple airlines and becoming increasingly appreciative of noise canceling technologies. I'm also gaining an appreciation for another technology, cloud based data quality solutions! I am leveraging Informatica's latest data...
Thanks! Whenever people participate in a polling exercise they provide a valuable perspective to the poller. With that in mind, I’d like to thank all that voted in the second set of The Data Quality Chronicle Polling exercise. You can view the results of the first polling session here. Basic Poll Design A polling section of the blog was setup in order to solicit information from the readers on...
El Festi… What? Each month the International Association for Information and Data Quality, or IAIDQ, asks it’s community of data quality experts to submit blog posts for the El Festival del IDQ Bloggers. A different blogger volunteers to host the posts on their blog along with writing a brief summary of the submissions. I am proud to once again host this event for the month of March. Without further...
Polling Basics A polling section of the blog was setup in order to solicit information from the readers on various topics. In an attempt to gain a picture of the larger data quality picture, the first edition of the polling contained very basic questions. The questions were as follows: What is the biggest challenge in data quality? What is the biggest opportunity in data quality? What is your data quality tool of choice?
TGI#FF Not that any of us needed another reason to thank God it’s Friday, but I feel there is one more! I am referring to Follow Friday (#ff) on Twitter. If you have read my previous post on the value of good networking tools, you already know I am a fan of Twitter. Follow Friday, for those of you that are not Twitter users, is an event that occurs...
Preface It is clear to me from the statistics on the number of unique visitors that there are a lot of you who find the details of matching as interesting as I do. For those of you waiting patiently for my next matching algorithm post fear not, I’ve not abandoned the series. I’ve been delayed by other assignments and some interesting new projects. I apologize for the delay to those of...
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