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Big Data, Enterprise Data and Discrete Data
24 Jan 2012 at 7:14am
Total Data Management© The data management world is buzzing about big data. Many are the number of blog posts articles and white papers covering this new area. Just about every data management ve...
What is Data Governance?
10 Jan 2012 at 12:40pm
I recently did a quick movie for a Talend promotion to define data governance. It turns out that defining data governance is trickier than you think. Here, I examine the characteristics of data man...
The ‘Time’ Factor in Data Management
12 Nov 2011 at 7:35am
I've been thinking about how many ways time influences the data management world. When it comes to managing data, we think about improving processes, coercing the needs and desires of people and ho...
Top Ten Root Causes of Data Quality Problems: Part Five
31 Aug 2011 at 2:09am
Part 5 of 5: People Issues In this continuing series, we're looking at root causes of data quality problems and the business processes you can put in place to solve them. Companies rely on data to...
Top Ten Root Causes of Data Quality Problems: Part Four
30 Aug 2011 at 2:09am
Part 4 of 5: Data Flow In this continuing series, we're looking at root causes of data quality problems and the business processes you can put in place to solve them. In part four, we examine some...
Top Ten Root Causes of Data Quality Problems: Part Three
29 Aug 2011 at 2:09am
Part 3 of 5: Secret Code and Corporate Evolution In this continuing series, we're looking at root causes of data quality problems and the business processes you can put in place to solve them. In ...
Top Ten Root Causes of Data Quality Problems: Part Two
25 Aug 2011 at 2:09am
Part 2 of 5: Renegades and Pirates In this continuing series, we're looking at root causes of data quality problems and the business processes you can put in place to solve them. In part two, we e...
Top Ten Root Causes of Data Quality Problems: Part One
24 Aug 2011 at 2:01am
Part 1 of 5: The Basics We all know data quality problems when we see them. They can undermine your organization’s ability to work efficiently, comply with government regulations and make revenu...
The Differences Between Small and Big Data
13 Jun 2011 at 11:50am
There is a lot of buzz today about big data and companies stepping up to meet the challenge of ever increasing data volumes. In the center of it all, are Hadoop and the Cloud. Hadoop can intellige...
The Butterfly Effect and Data Quality
16 May 2011 at 3:33pm
I just wrote a paper called the ‘Butterfly Effect’ of poor data quality for Talend. The term butterfly effect refers to the way a minor event – like the movement of a butterfly’s wing – ...
MIT Information Quality Symposium
9 May 2011 at 11:38am
This year I’m planning to attend the MIT IQ symposium again. I’m also one of the vice chairs of the event. The symposium is a July event in Boston that is a discussion and exchange of ideas ab...
Open Source and Data Quality
29 Apr 2011 at 7:47am
My latest video on the Talend Channel about data quality and open source. This was filmed in the Paris office in January. I can get excited in any time zone when it comes to data quality.Covering...
Data Quality Scorecard: Making Data Quality Relevant
25 Apr 2011 at 1:28pm
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Open Source Data Management or Do-it-Yourself
15 Mar 2011 at 6:40pm
With the tough economy people are still cutting back on corporate spending. There is a sense of urgency to just get things done, and sometimes that can lead to hand-coding your own data integratio...
My Interview in the Talend Newsletter
10 Mar 2011 at 1:11pm
Q. Some people would say that data quality technology is mature and that the topic is sort of stale. Are there major changes happening in the data quality world today? A. Probably the biggest over-...
Six Data Management Predictions for 2011
10 Dec 2010 at 2:18pm
This time of year everyone makes prognostications about the state of the data management field for 2011. I thought I’d take my turn by offering my predictions for the coming year. Data will beco...
Match Mitigation: When Algorithms Aren’t Enough
30 Nov 2010 at 3:57pm
I’d like to get a little technical on this post. I try to keep my posts business-friendly, but sometimes there's importance in detail. If none of this post makes any sense to you, I wrote a sort ...
Ideas Having Sex: The Path to Innovation in Data Management
16 Nov 2010 at 10:31am
I read a recent analyst report on the data quality market and “enterprise-class” data quality solutions. Per usual, the open source solutions were mentioned at a passing while the data quality ...
Is 99.8 % data accuracy enough?
16 Oct 2010 at 5:11pm
Ripped from recent headlines, we see how even a .2% failure can have a big impact. WASHINGTON (AP) ― More than 89,000 stimulus payments of $250 each went to people who were either dead or in pris...
ERP and SCM Data Profiling Techniques
28 Aug 2010 at 6:26am
In this YouTube tutorial for Talend, I walk through some techniques for profiling ERP, SCM and materials master data using Talend Open Profiler. In addition to basic profiling, the correlation anal...
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