Data Quality problems in the Norwegian State Church.

I just read an article in the Norwegian paper Dagbladet.
In Norway there is a State Church. It means it is sponsored by the State and a vast majority (about 85%) of the citizens is member of it.
In the last weeks the Norwegian Church as sent out 3,12 mill election cards to Norwegians over 15 [...]

Making the case of error tolerance in Customer Data Quality

Sales people are the ones who complain most about poor data quality and at the same time probably the ones who create most of the dirty data. 76%  of the dirty data is created in the data entry phase. Why not make it easier by introducing some error tolerance in their CRM/ERP Search, Data Quality [...]

Will Retailers succeed with e-Commerce because of Data Quality?

Trends from the Nordics are confirmed in England. Retailers with physical stores are the fastest growing in the online shopping sector.
They have been a little slow to roll out, because of challenges like cannibalization, logistics and branding. I know that several chains are on the move to launch large worldwide shopping sites. In my opinion [...]

Voter fraud or just poor Data Quality?

What would we say if an African or South American government sent out election card that:

Says you will have to cast your vote in a non existing election location
Gives you the wrong address to the election location
Tells you to vote at two different location, but you should only vote at onel
Tells you [...]

Focused vendors get highest customer feedback in new Data Quality Research

The Information Difference Ltd – a British Analyst Firm has made a research about the vendors on the Data Quality Market. You can read the full report here.
Here is the Diagram that Information Difference has made of the DQ Vendors.
The major vendors in the data quality market are described using the Landscape diagram that follows (see later [...]

Is Data Quality finally getting traction?

I have just attended MDM Summit Europe 2009 – very interesting!
This was about Master Data Management – but single most theme that was discussed was Data Quality.
Statements like: “Data Quality is MDM”,” MDM has to have the best Data Quality” was repeated throughout the Summit.
Can we hope that the issue of Data Quality is finally [...]

Quiz about Data Quality

Are you situated in Norway?  My company is running a quiz about Data Quality until the 15th of may, with a new question every week.  You can win a Washing Machine (since this is what data cleansing, data scrubbing is all about)  or a gift card from Elkjøp of 10.000 NOK.
We do this to put [...]

Lack of good data makes executives rely on gut feeling

In December Accenture published a survey called:  Most U.S. Companies Say Business Analytics Still Future Goal, Not Present Reality.
The interesting findings:
60 percent of major decisions are based on analytics and 40 percent are not.  Why do still 40 percent base their decision on gut feeling, rather than analytical skills?  61 percent answered it was because [...]

“Standardizing and normalizing disparate customer data is akin to having root canal surgery at the dentist.”

I found another interesting article on SearchDataManagement.com about why Data Quality is elusive at most organizations.
Most interesting points according to Gartner:

Half of the companies have actually deployed data quality tools or started Data Quality initiatives.
Of those who use data quality tools, less than one third has deployed these enterprise-wide.

The reason is that the information [...]

MDM Expert forecast for 2009: Data Quality will be core to delivering effective master data

Bob Karel, the Principal analyst at Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research, has on  SearchDataManagement.com come with his predictions for Master Data Management for 2009.

Cross-enterprise MDM adoption will remain extremely rare.
Expect a messaging shift from MDM vendors to promote how MDM can mitigate risk.
The data quality market will grow as customers recognize it as a cheaper precursor [...]