“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 [...]

Is Data Quality as Sexy as Intestinal Medicine?

This weekend I was to a dinner with the Queens Heart Surgeon.  We talked about the hierarchy of surgeons, where he is at the top, Brain Surgeons is at 2nd and Intestinal Surgeons are at the bottom.  He is at the top because he literally holds life and death in his hands, whereas Intestinal Surgeons just [...]