Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

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 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 [...]

My e-friend, Beth, has been busy posting from the Information on Demand conference in Las Vegas. She holds dear the belief that data is key, and quality data is the master key. I think saying it like that is putting words into her mouth, but hopefully I am not distorting her view point too much. [...]

You’d almost think that Beth and I were the same person – we both seem to post about the same topics at around the same time. Today she posts on the joys of establishing standards in product descriptions, I had intended to write something similar, but instead I write this Often the biggest problems in [...]

The other day a colleague invited me to sit in on workshop session with a customer to discuss changes to an attribute of product. On the face of it it sounds a bit of overkill to spend two hours discussing the meaning of just one attribute, but when that attribute is cost and the impact [...]