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by Angela Guess A new article reports, “Poor data management, especially unstructured data, costs organizations a lot of money. The Ponemon Institute recently conducted a study sponsored by Novell to try to determine exactly how much. The Ponemon report found that storage, control and compliance associated with unstructured data have become major challenges for...
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A Fable with a moral by David Plotkin Once upon a time, there was a company. This company had a terrible time recognizing their customers and understanding what products those customers had. The reasons for this weren’t hard to understand. The company’s main business was selling insurance, and each type...
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by Angela Guess A new article reports that poor data governance can lead to financial losses in the millions at larger corporations due to wasted time and lower quality information. The article begins, “Organizations are wasting millions of dollars as a result of inefficient record management systems, it has been revealed. An investigation by...
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by Angela Guess Another great presentation from MongoSF focused on how Craigslist was able to migrate over two billion documents. The case study entitled Lessons Learned from Migrating 2+ Billion Documents at Craigslist was led by Jeremy Zawodny of Craigslist. Zawodny says of the presentation, “Last fall I spoke at the MongoSV conference about...
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by Angela Guess In a new article, Francois Marais makes the business case for lean business intelligence. He writes, “In IT, the emphasis is always on cutting costs while maintaining responsiveness and quality of solutions. There is perhaps no more suitable approach than ‘lean thinking’ to help in this regard, especially in the area...
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by Angela Guess Google has announced the release of its new online magazine, Think Quarterly, which the company describes as a “breathing space in a busy world… It’s a place to take time out and consider what’s happening and why it matters.” The first issue of the magazine is focused on data. An article...
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by Angela Guess A recent survey of 164 IT managers and directors in the UK has announced its findings regarding how IT data is being managed and utilized in the United Kingdom. Some of the key findings include, “(1) Only 14 percent of survey respondents could say that they highly trusted the quality of...
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Presenter: David Plotkin, Data Governance Manager, AAA NCNU Introduction to Data Profiling from Dataversity on Vimeo. x
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Presenters: David Loshin Introduction to Data Quality Tools and Technologies from Dataversity on Vimeo. Once you have recognized that poor data quality impacts your business, how do you address the elimination of the sources of data flaws? Data quality tools and technologies are employed in different ways to help discover data issues, isolate...
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by Joe Danielewicz In Part 1, Six Sigma and MDM, published earlier in Enterprise Data Journal, I discussed applying Six Sigma methodology and principles to Master Data Management (MDM) programs. Although we can never expect to achieve Six Sigma perfection in our master data we can still benefit from using the rigorous methodology and many of...
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