Data quality is not a one-off

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 by Peter Scott

In my Blog post on End-to-end data quality I mentioned the desirability of fixing bad data at source. This certainly attracted comment both here and on other blogs for example
One point to keep in mind about fixing bad data on the source; it is just that, fixing DATA. We are not fixing bad applications […]

End-to-end data quality

Saturday, October 25th, 2008 by Peter Scott

One of our customers is about to embark on a significant BI project; but being in the “public sector” they have to (by EU law) publish tender documents so that qualified suppliers throughout the EU can bid to do the work. This means they have a gap of almost a year before the, yet to […]

Being Flexible

Saturday, October 18th, 2008 by Peter Scott

One of the things I really love about working with the team here at Rittman Mead is how we can offer our clients a flexible service, I guess this flexibility must be appreciated by our customers as we have just won the UKOUG Business Intelligence Partner of the Year award.
The past week I have been […]

Quality thoughts as I continue to chill out

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 by Peter Scott

Over at another Blog, Beth notes that she is editor of the month for the Carnival of Data Quality. When It comes out I urge you to take a look. With those strange quirks of global IT companies Beth and I once worked for the same employer, but we have never met - I did […]

A flat world

Thursday, December 27th, 2007 by Peter Scott

A lot of data warehouses get some (if not all) of their data feeds through data files; in fact I can’t recall a recent project where at least one feed from an external system did not arrive as some form of flat file. I have had customers whose corporate data movement strategy is to go […]

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