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- Data Quality Methods
- This paper briefly summarizes a basic strategy for proactive data cleansing. The main intent is to provide information that will be helpful in planning a data cleanup project. To that end, suggestions are provided in a "cookbook" format. It must be understood that each project will be unique, and the...
- Tags: Data Quality, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers
- Global Paper Manufacturer Enhances Data Quality During Corporate-Wide ERP Implementation
- Like many companies, this manufacturer grew steadily in the late 1990s, adding new business units and divisions through new markets, acquisitions and business ventures. The growth wasn't confined to the employee count or balance sheet, however. The company was acquiring new business systems along the way, creating a disjointed network...
- Tags: Data Quality, SAS Institute, Data Management, Balance Sheets, Databases, Storage, Manufacturing, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- Case studies
- The Data Quality Lifeline: A Practical Approach to Strategic Sourcing
- This webcast describes the steps to becoming a strategic sourcing organization and the technology solutions that can help a person achieve his or her goals. This Web seminar describes pressing challenges and best practices in strategic sourcing.
- Tags: Data Quality, Sourcing, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
- Webcasts
- Business Survival Series: Start on the Right Path
- Quality data is the critical first step to business intelligence success. Regardless of how sophisticated and complex the business intelligence functions are, ultimately they can only be as good as the data they use. But what, exactly, constitutes "Quality data," and how do a person make sure he or she...
- Tags: Data Quality, Quality Data, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- Webcasts
- US Patent and Trademark Office Increases Communication Flow Through Enhanced Data Quality
- The United States Patent and Trademark Office USPTO is a non-commercial federal entity and one of 13 bureaus in the Department of Commerce. With dfPower Studio, the USPTO can create valid, standardized lists of customers for mailings. The technology allows the USPTO to make matches between duplicate customers based on...
- Tags: Data Quality, Patent, Microsoft Office, U.S. Patent And Trademark Office, Technology
- Case studies
- Data Quality Challenge for CRM
- Data is the life blood of CRM. It enables organizations to segment, market to, sell to and service their customers. Good data quality is one of the most important factors determining the success of a company's CRM strategy. Whether the organization is focused on achieving a single view of the...
- Tags: Data Quality, CRM, Data, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Databases, Software, Marketing, Data Management
- White papers
- Harte-Hanks Improves CRM Processing by 70% With SyncSort
- At Harte-Hanks Ltd., a leading provider of CRM solutions processes huge volumes of customer data to unearth the wealth of strategic information that fuels the CRM services the company provides its clients. Data quality is key to the creation of single, integrated views of customers, a vital step in any...
- Tags: Data Quality, Syncsort, CRM, Harte-Hanks, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
- Case studies
- RLPTechnologies Fuels Better Data Quality With DataFlux
- RLPTechnologies, a subsidiary of R.L. Polk & Co., was asked to create a new breakthrough method of data management at Polk to collect, standardize and enhance data from multiple sources and compile them into a "Single source of the truth" throughout the enterprise. So the company selected DataFlux dfPower Studio...
- Tags: Data Quality, DataFlux Corp., Data Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies
- Measuring Data Quality: Predictive Accuracy Vs. Similarity of Decision Trees
- Nowadays huge amount of data is regularly being collected for various purposes by organizations and companies, including business, government departments, and medical service providers. Some of these techniques involve perturbing datasets by adding a noise to data in some controlled fashion. The effectiveness of such techniques is typically evaluated by...
- Tags: Technique, Data Quality, Decision Tree, Productivity, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers
- Business Intelligence and Data Quality in the Public Sector
- The public sector is not immune from data quality problems. In many cases, it faces even more difficult situations than the private sector does. At least the latter has a built-in correction mechanism called the marketplace that will eventually force that enterprise to fix the data or bear the brunt...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Data Quality, Sector, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers
- The Impact of the newly emerging field of Financial Data Quality Management (FDQM) on Group Reporting and Performance Management Processes
- Data quality management could be regarded as the less glamorous end of the Reporting Supply Chain RSC. After all, most of the attention and interest are lavished on the latest portal, reporting tool or dashboard. Yet, mismanagement or neglect of underlying balance information or interfaces can place the...
- Tags: analytics, budgeting, dashboard, data quality, financial, financial reporting, forecasting, Hyperion Solutions Corp., performance, performance management, portal, reporting tool
- White papers
- IT Service Company Boosts Data Quality and Insight With Business Management System
- Billable hours are the driving revenue source for Jacob & Sundstrom (J&S), an information technology support services company that primarily serves government organizations. J&S knew that to improve data accuracy and overall business management it needed to replace the disparate systems it used to track time, generate invoices, and manage...
- Tags: Data Quality, Business Management, Support Services, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Jacob & Sundstrom, Strategy, It Services, Management
- Case studies
- Master/Reference Data Management as an Enterprise Data Quality Initiative: Challenges and Best Practices
- Enterprises have realized that if they want to leverage information as a key asset, they have to understand and take a serious look at master data. Whether master data is necessary for a data quality or data integration effort, or a data initiative to meet regulatory requirements or CRM initiatives,...
- Tags: Data Quality, Initiative, SAS Institute, Data Integration, Best Practice, Data Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts
- Data Quality: The Cornerstone of Effective Data Integration
- By 2005, Fortune 1000 enterprises will lose more money in operational inefficiency due to data quality issues than they will spend on data warehouse and CRM initiatives, according to Gartner, Inc. principal analyst Ted Friedman. Because the quality of underlying data dictates the return from most operational systems, the implementation...
- Tags: Data Quality, Data Integration, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Webcasts
- The Data Quality Imperative - Insight to Action
- This webcast explains what comprises the major areas of data quality technology, why data quality is essential for regulatory compliance, which trends in the market will require data quality and why data quality is a key component and differentiator of business analytics solutions.
- Tags: Data Quality, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Webcasts
- Ensuring Data Quality of Service in cdma2000 Networks
- This live webcast from Agilent Technologies will cover a forward thinking, detailed troubleshooting methodology based on end-to-end, active application tests that will help uncover the root causes of service delivery problems by identifying the network elements, protocols or servers that are adversely affecting the service quality. Details covered will also...
- Tags: Data Quality, Network, Agilent Technologies Inc., Real Estate, Networking, Business Operations
- Webcasts
- Ensuring Data Quality of Service in UMTS Networks
- There is ever-increasing pressure on Wireless Service Providers to grow their average revenue per user ARPU whilst decreasing their operating costs. These contradictory objectives can only be achieved through radical changes in processes and practices. The introduction of compelling wireless data services gives operators an opportunity to attract higher profit...
- Tags: Data Quality, UMTS, QoS, Agilent Technologies Inc., Wi-Fi, Wireless
- Webcasts
- Sealing Devices Boosts Customer Service With Clean, Centralized Data
- Sealing Devices, Inc. prides itself on customer service. That focus on service has allowed it to grow from a small distributor of seals and gaskets into an industry leader. To continue its stellar customer service while managing growth, Sealing Devices had to find a way to clean up its customer...
- Tags: Data Quality, Customer Service, Oracle Corp., Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Databases, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies
- Data Quality: A Best Practices Presentation
- Many companies overlook the importance that data quality plays in successful business intelligence initiatives. Organizations expect to see a rapid return on their corporate investments, including data integration efforts, business intelligence applications and enterprise solutions. Yet, in the end, the results produced by these expensive projects are only as good...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Data Quality, Best Practice, Databases, Pricing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing
- Webcasts
- Proven Approaches to Data Quality
- In this webcast, attendee will learn about proven approaches to data quality based on large successful project initiatives. Using a step-by-step approach, this webcast will help the attendee to understand the data landscape and measure data quality in the organization, prioritize among the various data quality issues, move beyond basic...
- Tags: Data Quality, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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