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At Least Two Versions of the Truth
Precisely one year ago I wrote a post called Single Company View examining the challenges of getting a single business partner view in business-to-business (B2B) party master data. Yesterday Robert...
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The Data Quality Tool Vendor Difference
How do analysts look at the data quality tool vendor market? As with everything data quality there are differences and apparently no single source of truth. Gartner has its magic quadrant. They sell it...
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Sometimes Big Brother is Confused
Google Maps knows a lot. It knows about addresses and it knows about companies on these addresses. As with most services it seems that Google Maps gets the reference data from different sources. The...
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Finding the Truth in Social Business Directories
LinkedIn has a section called companies. When browsing around on LinkedIn you are sometimes hinted to follow a company that LinkedIn think will be of interest for you. The other day my hint included...
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Beyond Address Validation
The quality of contact master data is the number one data quality issue around. Lately there has been a lot of momentum among data quality tool providers in offering services for getting at least the...
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Business Entity Identifiers
The least cumbersome way of uniquely identifying a business partner being a company, government body or other form of organization is to use an externally provided number. However, there are quite a...
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Hierarchical Single Source of Truth
Most data quality and master data management gurus, experts and practitioners agree that achieving a “single source of truth” is a nice term, but is not what data quality and master data management is...
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Beyond True Positives in Deduplication
The most frequent data quality improvement process done around is deduplication of party master data. A core functionality of many data quality tools is the capability to find duplicates in large...
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What Happened in 1013
At this time of year it is very popular to try to predict what will happen in the next year, being 2013, within your field of expertise. However, predictions, not at least about the future, may fail....
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The Greenland Problem in MDM
In a recent comment here on this blog the relevance of Master Data Management (MDM) solutions was questioned because in real business life different business units sees master data very differently...
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instant Single Customer View
Achieving a Single Customer View (SCV) is a core driver for many data quality improvement and Master Data Management (MDM) implementations. As most data quality practitioners will agree, the best way...
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Crap, Damned Crap, and Big Data
Lately Jim Harris made a thought provoking post on the Mike2 blog. The post is called A Contrarian’s View of Unstructured Data. Herein Jim wrote: “My contrarian’s view of unstructured data is that it...
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Name the Pope
Here’s a quiz for you: Voters with a wrong answer will earn the right to call him(or her)self the antipope. Filed under: Information Quality
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The Country List
It’s the second day of the MDM Summit Europe 2013 in London today. The last session I attended today was an expert panel on Reference Data Management (RDM). I guess the list of countries on this planet...
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When Bad Data Quality isn’t Bad Data
There has been a quiz running on this blog with the question: What is the name of the current Pope of the Catholic Church?. Find the current standing of answers in the figure to the right. It’s good to...
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Where the Streets have one Name but Two Spellings
Last week’s post called Where The Streets have Two Names caught a lot of comments both on this blog and in LinkedIn groups as here on Data Quality Professionals and on The Data Quality Association,...
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Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye
A certain birth in London the other day was widely visualized by the announcement by a royal crier in front of St. Mary’s Hospital. However, as reported by International Business Times here, the crier...
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180 Degree Prospective Customer View isn’t Unusual
My eMail inbox is collecting received mails from several eMail accounts and therefore it’s not unusual to have duplicate messages in there. This morning I had two eMails coming in to two different...
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Hierarchical Data Matching
A year ago I wrote a blog post about data matching published on the Informatica Perspective blog. The post was called Five Future Data Matching Trends. One of the trends mentioned is hierarchical data...
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On Maps, Data Quality and MDM
Maps are great but sometimes you’ll have some trouble with data quality issues on maps as told in the post Troubled Bridge over Water. When it comes to political borders on maps things may get really...
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