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Caring for Your Data Assets
Data is a company’s most important asset. After all, cleansed and accurate data can make money or save money. And what business wouldn’t want data that improves productivity, increases business process efficiency, enhances customer acquisition, and identifies up-sell and cross-sell opportunities?
BIG DATA – Take a Look at the Numbers
“BIG Data” - Is this just another trendy buzzword over the past few years? We’ve certainly heard this phrase tossed around often enough. Marketers discuss the importance of capturing information from big data while database engineers struggle to implement the tools to clean and capture all this big data.
The Data Quality Sleuth: Language Buriers
One man’s idea is another man’s misinterpretation. Depending on how language is used, or whether or not it’s even a similar vernacular to your own could impact any outcome.
Data Quality, Customer Analytics, and PROFITABLE Growth!
Massive amounts of information flood companies daily - social and digital data, customer email, purchase history, and more. All this information arising from multiple sources must be integrated and governed to ensure it is a TRUSTED source of information. When diligently maintained and properly cleansed, your database is a marketing goldmine.
BIG DATA is BIG DEAL
Big data is big information. Imagine the snowball rolling downhill in the snow, gathering more snow, and becoming so large that it is now out of control. That is the bird’s eye view of big data. The up close and personal experience, however, is one of stumbling upon a gold mine. There is a wealth of information to be had, but if Business Intelligence (BI) Workers do not know their industry trends, the information may never be mined, used beneficially or simply may be passed up.
Just the Facts
If you were born before the mid-1960’s, you might be familiar with the phrase, “All we want to know are the facts, ma’am.” However, most people seem to recall, “Just the facts, ma’am” to be the famous repeated statement on Dragnet which were never actually uttered by Sergeant Joe Friday of the popular 1950’s and 1960’s TV series. The latter statement came from a parody of the television show. It’s funny how easy it is to confuse facts with skewed memories.
The Mushrooming of Data
As more people are actively engaged in the world of data, the quality can have a tendency to become skewed, mismanaged and exponentially vast! The information that is being stored is gathered from a multitude of sources and entered by throngs of employees just tapping away, doing their jobs, hoping to complete their data entries by the end of their work day.
Good Data Gone Bad
The data starts off good. Always reporting the correct information, always showing up when called upon, you never had issues with your data when it was fresh and newly input. You would rely on it to provide correct information and accurate output and it didn’t disappoint you.