Delivering a high-quality SOA requires high-quality data

Federal Times – a leading US Publication – has an article about the advantages and possibilities Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) provides federal agencies.  The article is called “Improving data quality is first step in info sharing”
Delivering a high-quality SOA requires high-quality data. “Garbage in, garbage out” is still the rule for information systems. SOA is worthless [...]

Have you read the article about “The Importance of Data Quality in Service-Oriented Architectures?”

I was referred to this interesting article about SOA and Data Quality by Sid Fran on b-eye-network today. It is an excellent and to the point introduction to SOA .  It’s headlines:

Definitions
Features, benefits and promises
Success stories
Successfully Transitioning to a Service-Oriented Architecture
SOA and Data Governance
Succeeding with SOA

In this last point he speaks right to my [...]

Put a Data Quality Backbone in your CRM system.

It has become widely accepted that Data Quality is the main reason for CRM failure:
“Without clean data, there is no CRM. Poor data quality can lead to serious business problems.” – is quoted from an Article called “Avoid the pitfalls of poor data quality” in cxoamerica.com
“If there is no standard of quality for data, a [...]