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Why Poor Quality Data Is Hampering Coronavirus Efforts

It’s fair to say that COVID-19 has upended virtually every aspect of our life. Working from home, leaving the house for the essentials and tuning in at 5pm for the daily Government update is the new normal. We see the numbers of cases and deaths and hope that the current…

Data quality management

Data quality management   Managing data quality is essential to ensure that the data used is accurate, reliable and complete. To add to the existing difficulty of managing data quality, data is constantly changing; with increasing volumes, shifting types, and various delivery methods. Without proper quality maintenance, data can become…

Data Quality in Numbers

Data quality in numbers Following a recent survey around the state of data quality to 1,900 businesses carried out by the learning company O’Reilly in late 2019, key findings include despite several organizations being aware of data quality issues, many are uncertain about how best to address those concerns. I…

What is Data Quality?

What is Data Quality? We’ve shared a few of our experiences around data preparation for migrations, the importance of a data strategy, and why data quality is so important to your big data architecture. But we haven’t touched on the definition, and the crucially, the criticality of data quality! Data…

Why Data Quality is so important to your big data architecture

Why Data Quality is so important to your big data architecture solution. Big data is crucial for any business and the analysis of it often enables businesses to make informed business decisions. A well thought out big data architecture can save your company money and help predict future trends to…

What are the benefits of data loading?

What are the benefits of data loading? Crucial for effective data analytics is the accessibility of data that has been collected and depending on which data loading method you use, there are opportunities to not only significantly speed up your time to analytics and insights but also to dramatically improve…

Why Cloud Migrations are like moving to a new home.

Why Cloud Migrations are like moving to a new home. Data is everywhere, with businesses these days accessing, collecting and analysing data more than ever from a variety of sources. And getting all this data, which continues to grow year on year, into a secure cloud repository is critical to…

What are the benefits of a data strategy?

What are the benefits of a data strategy? Picture this: you’re an analyst and you’ve been tasked the unenviable activity of assimilating all your organization’s data in order to run analysis and collect unique and comprehensive insights from it. But there’s a challenge – how do you gain a unified…

12 Statistics about Data quality that will forever change the way you think about your Data

Sales and marketing departments lose approximately 550 hours and as much as $32,000 per sales rep from using bad data (DiscoverOrg) Every year, 25-30% of data becomes inaccurate leading to less effective sales and marketing campaigns (MarketingSherpa) Businesses lose as much as 20% of revenue due to poor data quality…