Business leaders across virtually every industry are investing heavily in advanced analytics right now. There are plenty of good reasons for this: cloud analytics are becoming more and more powerful,...

2,500 years ago, Greek philosopher Heraclitus made his famous statement that “the only constant in life is change.” Since then, the pace of change has accelerated dramatically, especially over...

CRM data can be notoriously problematic. Personal and business information is in a constant state of flux. Customers or prospects often move to new locations, get new email addresses or phone...

Data integrity is defined as data with accuracy, consistency, and context for confident decision-making. Achieving true data integrity calls for technical capabilities such as data integration, data...

Chances are, you can remember a time when one of your colleagues commented about the need to “clean up” the data in the CRM database or the ERP system. After some period, those systems always...

IT environments have grown vastly more complex in the past few decades, as enterprises have added a multitude of new data sources, all of which may necessitate data cleansing, matching, and...

We are all familiar with the old saying “garbage in, garbage out” (or “GIGO” for short). That phrase has been around since the early days of computing, but in this era of high-volume data,...

As more and more enterprises recognize the value of data analytics and data-driven decisions, the challenges associated with poor data quality have been brought to the forefront. As business leaders...

Executives at large enterprises have understood the value of data and data quality for years, but that awareness has been pervading an ever-broader spectrum of organizations. As the volume and...