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September 30, 2015
Your data warehouse is only as good as the data you load into it. But the data-loading process can be tricky, and there are ample opportunities […]
July 21, 2014
What are some common mistakes that business intelligence managers and architects make when planning and designing a business intelligence system? BI managers and architects generally do […]
February 27, 2014
Here’s some good news for Economics majors. According to today’s Wall Street Journal: In-House Economists are Hot Again One of the reasons they are hot again […]
August 24, 2011
The narrow definition of data quality is that it’s about bad data – data that is missing or incorrect. A broader definition is that data quality […]
April 6, 2011
I teach a graduate course on data warehousing at Northeastern University in Boston. Unlike the people I teach at clients’ sites or at conferences such as […]
March 30, 2011
I recently experienced a data-quality problem first-hand while on the phone with the company that books my family a condo for our annual ski vacation. They […]
February 17, 2011
Consistent, correct data. That doesn’t sound too complicated, does it? But actually, one of the most daunting challenges facing CFOs and their staffs today is […]
August 24, 2010
(This is part of our ongoing Series of Unfortunate Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Events. Click for the complete series, so far.) If data warehouses could […]
May 29, 2009
Why are data silos so prevalent when we really ought to know better? We know that it’s risky to have inconsistent data. We strive for the […]
May 28, 2007
Data quality management needs to be an integral part of the design and planning of your corporate performance management (CPM), business intelligence (BI) or data warehouse […]
April 28, 2007
Doctors say that “prevention is the best medicine.” This holds true for data quality management, too. The sooner you identify potential problems the sooner you can […]
July 14, 2006
A couple of IT managers recently approached me with a thorny issue. The key business sponsor for their data warehousing effort asked them if they should […]
June 2, 2006
How trustworthy is the data that you provide? Not very, if it has quality problems. Data quality is one of the biggest roadblocks to trusting corporate […]
April 19, 2006
I was recently asked: “Should we wait until we fix the data quality problems in our source systems before we build a data warehouse?” My answer: […]
February 10, 2006
Plenty of business intelligence (BI) or data warehouse projects have been blindsided by complications related to data quality. Sometimes these issues aren’t apparent until business users […]
January 28, 2005
You’re involved in a business intelligence project, making great progress creating reports and cubes for analysis for your business users. They’re excited about what they see […]
October 12, 2004
Data standards ensure the consistency, accuracy, integrity and validity that are critical to your success. Data is not usually clean and consistent, especially when gathered […]