Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Like buses in London you wait ages for one to arrive and then three come along at the same time. I started writing this piece a while back and since I started Beth wrote on data quality, Jon Mead touched on conformed dimensions in a follow up to his posting on dimensions, and Andy Whitehurst [...]

As an acronym, GIGO for Garbage In, Garbage Out seems to have a better ring to it than the less common (or non-existent) terms TITO, RIRO or CICO. But the principle is the same; if you want good results, don’t store rubbish. As I mentioned earlier we must guarantee the quality of our data. And [...]

The final installment on the ingredients for successful BI is about data quality. For some strange reason, if users do not trust the quality of data in a BI system the system will fall into disrepute and be seen as a failure. Now I said “strange reason” and in truth there is a degree of [...]