The Data Quality Pro Herald: Edition #5
Welcome to the fifth edition of the Data Quality Pro Herald, the online magazine for Data Quality Pro members.
Firstly, some quick news:
A new member joins the Data Quality Pro writing team in the form of Jim Harris from OCDQ Blog fame.
Regular readers may know Jim from his own blog, his excellent series on managing duplicate customers and his recent coverage of major data management events like the TDWI conference.
The quality of Jim's data quality journalism and experience as a data quality consultant is exceptional so we're delighed he'll be helping us take the editorial content forward into some exciting areas in the coming weeks and months. Great to have you on the team Jim.
Secondly, we're launching a new interactive video channel that will feature weekly video tutorials, interviews and other multimedia elements. Please give us regular feedback on this new feature as it comes online and tell us what tutorials you would like to see.
Finally, we've created a new job stream on Twitter under the @DQJobs username, this aggregates data quality jobs from around the globe.
Hope you enjoy the issue.
Dylan Jones - Editor
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DQ Global have released a free version of their name and address de-dup software, nice move given the tough climate for many charities, several of whom are in our membership. We've created a quick video tutorial to get you started with the tool and provide instructions for download.
Managing data quality outside of the application environment presents a wealth of challenges - why aren't the creators of business software doing more to protect data quality in the first place?
Philip Howard takes a look at recent acquisitions and market movements now that MDM requirements are filtering through the data quality sector.
If you read the Informatica blog you'll know John Schmidt very well. John is an industry authority on creating competency centres and centres of excellence so we caught up with him to get his thoughts and experience on how companies should address the logistics of creating a DQ competency centre.
This post comes in two parts, there is a link to part 1 in the second post. With the help of one of our members who has recently been through the data quality procurement cycle (Phil Caisley) we put together a simple process and some template worksheets to help you build out your own vendor selection process.
John Owens has developed a really comprehensive modelling framework that integrates practically every modelling layer you would typically need across the enterprise. Poor modelling is a major cause of "unfit-for-purpose" data and inefficient information services so we picked John's brain and found 12 key areas where data quality is being impacted. We'll be running a range of other tutorials from John explaining how to improve your modelling techniques.
This four part series looks at why data quality communities are vital for grass-roots change in your organisation and gives you some simple advice for getting one launched. As part of our new "Support Hub" facility (coming soon), we'll be providing practical support for those looking to create their own internal DQ community.
No surprises here, data quality is a major concern in BI projects and not nearly enough is being done. Most companies use hand-coded scripts and half of all companies report major data quality issues within their BI initiatives. In light of the recent economic meltdown there are numerous lessons to be drawn where poor DQ meets ambitious BI.
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Next Month...
Lots more tutorials on the new video channel, the new magazine should be nearing completion, major site improvements and a rack of expert interviews in the pipeline...
I hope you continue to find Data Quality Pro of value to your career or business and if I can help you get the most out of the resource - please just drop me a line.
Best wishes,
Dylan Jones
Community Editor/Founder
editor@dataqualitypro.com
Twitter: @dataqualitypro
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