White Papers
Data Management Methodology: A Do-It-Yourself Guide for High-Value Data Across the Enterprise
This DataFlux white paper explores a new methodology for integrating data management principles into the organization and creating more accurate, integrated and controlled data to support every part of the business.
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Data Quality and Cost Reduction
David Loshin
This paper by David Loshin of Knowledge Integrity reviews aspects of cost reduction and examines some typical financial accounting expense categories.
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De-Risking Data Migration: The Case for Data Quality Technology
Dylan Jones
This white paper by Dylan Jones provides practical advice that will help the reader understand the pivotal role data quality technology must play in a data migration.
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Finding an Upside in the Downturn with Data Quality
Ovum
In the current macroeconomic malaise, CIOs are left scratching their heads on how to sustain and fund important information management projects such as master data management (MDM) and data quality. This paper from Ovum, a leading research firm in technology, telecommunications and other business sectors, argues against cutting into these projects too deeply.
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Data Migration for Project Leaders
Dylan Jones
This guidebook by Dylan Jones of Data Quality Pro examines exactly what responsibilities and activities project leaders should fulfill in data migration projects.
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A Guide to the Value of Reliable Data in Retail Banking
Mike Ferguson
This paper by Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies examines the impact of unreliable data on retail banks. He defines the requirements needed to guarantee data reliability in retail banking and offers a practical approach to creating and governing that data.
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A Guide to the Value of Reliable Data in Insurance
Mike Ferguson
Mike Ferguson looks at the importance of reliable data to the insurance industry, focusing on the impact of poor data. He discusses how an enterprise data quality approach can help get you back control of your data.
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Unlock Information Management
Jean-Christophe Steels and Jean-Paul Otte, Business & Decision
This paper describes enterprise information management (EIM) as a significant enabler of higher competitiveness and introduces an agile EIM implementation approach.
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A Guide to the Value of Reliable Data in Manufacturing
Mike Ferguson
This white paper by Mike Ferguson from Intelligent Business Strategies explores how reliable, trusted data can contribute significantly towards reducing unnecessary operational costs, avoiding customer dissatisfaction and cash flow problems for manufacturing companies
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Lessons Learned: Survey of Financial Services Companies Uncovers Data Governance Trends
This white paper explores the findings of a 2009 survey commissioned by DataFlux to understand data management trends in the financial services industry.
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Commodity Coding: Code It or Buy (Too Much of) It
Joyce Norris-Montanari
Commodity classification can yield tremendous benefits, and with some thought, preparation and the right technical skills, those rewards can extend throughout your organization.
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Data Migration Handbook for Business Leaders
Dylan Jones
This guidebook by Dylan Jones provides simple, tried and tested techniques that will help business leaders fully understand their pivotal part in delivering a successful data migration project.
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Five Models for Data Stewardship
Jill Dyché
This White Paper by Jill Dyché of Baseline Consulting explores five alternate models for building a successful data stewardship culture.
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Customer Centricity, Master Data and the 360-Degree View
David Loshin
The concept of a 360-degree view of a customer has turned into the holy grail of comprehensive customer intelligence. This paper provides a list of questions that should be considered and reviewed during any project designed to deliver a 360-degree view.
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Data Best Practices for Spend Analysis
David Loshin
David Loshin of Knowledge Integrity looks at the business drivers and organizational objectives of a spend analysis program.
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Improving the Accuracy of Spend Analysis through Data Quality
This white paper offers practical advice on how data quality technology can be used to address spend analysis issues.
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Data Quality Remediation
David Loshin
This white paper by David Loshin from Knowledge Integrity reviews the required pieces of an immediate action plan for data stewards to correct data errors when those errors are identified.
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The Three Key Phases for Data Migration - and Beyond
This white paper examines how data management technology can solve data migration issues through a three phase process of analyzing, improving and controlling data.
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Enterprise Data Governance - How Established Is It in the Marketplace?
Mike Ferguson
Mike Ferguson from Intelligent Business Strategies analyzes the results of a 2008 online survey to form a picture of where companies worldwide stand with their data governance initiatives.
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Understanding Data Governance ROI: A Compliance Perspective
Gwen Thomas
This white paper from Gwen Thomas examines the role of data governance programs in supporting compliance efforts.
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The ROI of Data Governance: Seven Ways Your Data Governance Program Can Help Save You Money
Gwen Thomas
Gwen Thomas outlines seven ways that data governance & stewardship programs can help manage costs and a mechanism for quantifying the ROI for those contributions.
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Observing Data Quality Service Level Agreements
David Loshin
This white paper by David Loshin from Knowledge Integrity examines how to measure data quality and what to do when the data does not meet the level of acceptability.
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Building Data Quality into an SAP Infrastructure
This white paper examines the general principles of data quality as they apply to ERP systems and how the unique types of data quality management in ERP can complement and enhance each other if approached with the right technology.
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Populating a Data Quality Scorecard with Relevant Metrics
David Loshin
This white paper by David Loshin explores ways to qualify data control and measures to support the governance program, and how to determine the measurable business value of fixing data quality issues.
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The Four Imperatives of Data Governance Maturity
Philip Russom
This monograph by Philip Russom of TDWI examines the four requirements to increasing the maturity of data governance initiatives.
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The ROI of Data Governance: A Revenue Generation Perspective
Gwen Thomas
This white paper from Gwen Thomas of the Data Governance Institute provides a practical guide for determining ROI for data governance.
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Building a Data Quality Scorecard for Operational Data Governance
David Loshin
David Loshin from Knowledge Integrity examines how a data quality scorecard provides an effective management tool for monitoring organizational performance.
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Getting Started with Master Data Management
Mike Ferguson
This white paper from Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies defines master data, examines why it is needed, and explores methodologies for implementing master data management.
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Accelerating Enterprise Data Governance Part 3
Mike Ferguson
In the third of this series, Mike Ferguson looks at DataFlux Accelerators and how they can expedite the time to implement enterprise data governance.
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Accelerating Enterprise Data Governance Part 2
Mike Ferguson
In the second of this series of three white papers, Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies examines the importance of having automated data governance services.
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Accelerating Enterprise Data Governance Part 1
Mike Ferguson
In the first of this series of three white papers, Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies defines what data governance is and then looks at the requirements that need to be met for full data governance to be implemented.
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Coordinating MDM Stakeholders
David Loshin
This white paper by David Loshin looks at the different individual roles within the organization that are associated with master data management.
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MDM Components and the Maturity Model
David Loshin
This white paper by David Loshin provides a conceptual outline of technical MDM components and examines how those components relate to the levels of organizational maturity determined by the ability to provide MDM services.
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Managing and Integrating Data in an SAP Environment
Mike Ferguson
This white paper by Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies looks at the impact of poor data quality on SAP applications and SAP infrastructure technologies.
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Master Data Management and the Functional SOA Service Layer
David Loshin
This white paper by David Loshin explores the symbiotic relationship between MDM and SOA, and how you can effectively create a strategy that encompasses both of these initiatives.
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The Data Governance Maturity Model
This DataFlux white paper introduces the Data Governance Maturity Model and explains how your organization can use it to understand the major issues of building better data across the enterprise.
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Data Profiling, Data Integration and Data Quality: The Pillars of Master Data Management
David Loshin
This white paper by David Loshin, published in association with the Business Intelligence Network, shows how data profiling, data integration, and data quality can build a stable framework for master data management.
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Data Governance for Master Data Management and Beyond
David Loshin
This white paper by David Loshin examines how the definition, oversight and adherence to information policies and procedures can create value across the enterprise beyond the immediate benefits of regulatory compliance.
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An Enterprise Data Management Overview
Michael F. Jennings
This executive brief outlines the components of a successful EDM strategy.
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The Importance of Data Governance and Stewardship in Enterprise Data Management
Anne Marie Smith
This executive brief by Anne Marie Smith outlines the role of data governance in enterprise data management.
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Meta Quality: The Data Quality and Metadata Bond
Michael F. Jennings
This executive brief by Michael F. Jennings outlines the connection between metadata and data quality.
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Master Data Management - Modeling and Consolidation
David Loshin
After getting executive approval for your MDM project, the next step is designing an effective system.
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Data Ownership and Enterprise Data Management: Implementing a Data Management Strategy
Mike Ferguson
In the third in a three-part series by Mike Ferguson, president of Intelligent Business Strategies, looks at the key components needed to get control of your data.
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Data Ownership and Enterprise Data Management: Leveraging Technology to Get Control of Your Data
This white paper discusses the benefits of an enterprisewide technology suite and how your organization can leverage this technology to identify and solve various problems associated with a lack of data ownership.
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Data Ownership and Enterprise Data Management: Is Your Data Under Control?
Mike Ferguson
In the first of a three-part series by Mike Ferguson, president of Intelligent Business Strategies, addresses the issue of data ownership and enterprise data management.
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Semantics, Metadata and Identifying Master Data
David Loshin
This white paper by David Loshin, president of Knowledge Integrity, helps you learn the keys to locating and understanding relationships between data elements.
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Launching Your CDI Program: The Pitch, The People, The Plan
Jill Dyche and Evan Levy
From initial buy-in to project start-up, the things you do at the beginning of an IT initiative often determine the level of your success.
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Data Profiling: The Diagnosis for Better Enterprise Information
This DataFlux white paper explains the types of analysis that data profiling can provide - and how data profiling fits into an overall data improvement strategy.
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Master Data Management: Challenges to Success
David Loshin
In this white paper, David Loshin from Knowledge Integrity outlines the operational, organizational and technology challenges associated with MDM projects.
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Data Monitoring: Add Controls to your Data Governance Program
Data monitoring provides the confidence and assurance that once you fix your data problems, they will remain within limits.
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Five Steps to More Valuable Enterprise Data
This white paper examines a five-step method for improving your data, using data profiling, data quality, data integration and other methods to find and fix bad data.
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Master Data and Master Data Management: An Introduction
David Loshin
This white paper, by David Loshin of Knowledge Integrity, discusses how organizational information integration, management and sharing comprise a master data management program.
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Data Integration: Using ETL, EAI, and EII Tools to Create an Integrated Enterprise
This report from TDWI's evaluates the recent evolution of data integration tools and methodologies.
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Data Quality and the Bottom Line
TDWI
This report is from TDWI's 2002 series on data quality, compiled based on interviews with industry experts, customers and survey data, examines the costs of data quality problems.
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