Topic: data quality
Data transliteration is essential for ensuring data quality
With today’s expectation for companies to be able to reach consumers around the world, language barriers have become a hurdle that organizations need to be able to overcome. Data transliteration tools are designed to tackle this potential problem by working to convert fields or characters from one alphabet into another without maintaining the underlying meaning … continue reading
Melissa adds Profiler to its Unison customer data platform
Data is becoming ever more important to organizations that do heavy customer service and outreach, yet the quality of that data often is poor. Whether it’s users intentionally filling fields with garbage, or the user’s lack of understanding of how the system wants an address filled out, companies find that much of their outbound communication … continue reading
Talend Fall 2021 release introduces data health concepts
Talend has announced the release of Talend Fall 2021, which adds data health concepts across Talend Data Fabric. The new version includes Stitch Unlimited, which offers industry-first, non-consumption-based pricing for unlimited users and integrations. Users will also have access to a Trust Score so that everyone can know that they’re making the right decisions based … continue reading
SD Times news digest: BMC announces new mainframe security updates, Emerson launches Plantweb Optics Data Lake, Melissa named data quality leader
The autonomous digital enterprise solution provider BMC announced several new innovations and integrations within the BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence and BMC Compuware portfolios to harden mainframe security. The update provides automated detection and response capabilities, which allow weaknesses and malicious activity to be discovered before a compromise occurs. With the new integrations, developers now have … continue reading
Lightup launches beta program for its data quality monitoring solution
Data quality monitoring company Lightup has announced a beta program intended to help customers identify issues with their data. Lightup tracks data that goes in and out of applications and detects when there are changes that would indicate data quality degradation. It takes metrics such as data availability, data delay, and data volume to determine … continue reading
Melissa to showcase Unison Data Quality Management Platform
Online session will highlight the role of customizable, browser-based data quality management in easing path to data governance RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif., March 31, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Melissa, a leading provider of global data quality and address management solutions, today announced a free webinar designed to offer IT and business stakeholders insight on the role … continue reading
Data quality: It’s a matter of trust
Businesses rely on data to make decisions that drive their bottom line. But if they can’t trust the data, or the analysis of the data, they lose the ability to move with more certainty that what they’re doing is correct. Data quality has many different inputs and dimensions. IDC research director Steward Bond said that … continue reading
Data is key to returns on investment
Return Policy Guide is a website that aggregates the policies of many major retailers, so if a customer is unhappy with his purchase, he can learn how to most effectively return the product and get his money back. The site handles a ton of data, from the individual policies themselves, to ads on the site, … continue reading
The first step to ensuring data quality is validation
Blue Compass is an Iowa-based digital marketing agency specializing in website development and SEO. As such, according to development manager David Wanat, they take care of “everything beyond the design of the site” on the back end. Not only that, but Wanat also said he is responsible for ensuring the data is good, whether it’s … continue reading
The SD Times Data Quality Project
It began last January with a column I wrote titled “The little dirty data secret,” which shone a light on the issue of data quality — or lack thereof — within many organizations. I called it the dirty little secret because of a reluctance on the part of many to even acknowledge they had a … continue reading
Industry watch: The little dirty data secret
Our industry has a dirty little secret. Come closer, I’ll whisper it to you. (Much of the data held in organizational databases, warehouses, lakes and stores is not very good.) There, I’ve said it. Data quality remains a persistent problem for enterprises, and there are many reasons as to why. It could be that fields … continue reading
Industry Spotlight: Melissa enables active data quality
Poor data quality costs businesses time, money, and customers. For companies conducting business in Europe, the associated costs could rise dramatically when the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect in May 2018. One small data quality mistake involving the misuse of Personally-Identifiable Information (PII) could cost a company 20 million euros or 4 … continue reading
