Can a DQ blog damage your reputation?

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You can’t but help notice the tremendous ‘bow wave’ that is (at long last) forming around the management and exploitation of data.

“Moore’s Law” it seems can now be applied to Data Quality (DQ) – If a Google search for DQ related books, consultancies and blogs is not enough to convince you, the volume of new registration notifications to DQPro (which is starting to make my inbox feel like its under ‘spam attack’) might - The growing demand for ‘New Learning’ on the subject of DQ is clear!

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Maybe some good is already coming out of the credit crunch?

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Further evidence supporting the ‘information tipping point’ emerges…

Since starting back after the holidays, I have noticed an increasing flow of emails and phone calls from agencies doing searches for, Information Management (IM), Data Architect and Data Quality Management type roles. – (brand new / 'greenfield' roles). The search for related technology tools such as data profiling and the new ‘wonder solution’ MDM (Master Data Management) also seem to be on the up.

Digging a little deeper the emerging picture is that in trying to respond to the developing financial crisis, companies have found it difficult or impossible to provide management with the information they ask/need to steer the organisation through these troubled times.

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Do you understand binary?

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"There are only 10 types of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't"

Anyway, made me chuckle :-)

It's not been a good week for me and technology

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I’ve not been having much luck with technology lately.

My trusty old Sony Vaio has become extremely slow and crashes very frequently – even after two complete reinstalls! I can’t get hold of a stable video device driver and as my iPhone is no laptop replacement, I NEED a new laptop…

At the same time, my fall back laptop (my daughters MacBook) has decided that as it’s now month 13 it’s time to break! It fails to complete the start-up process 95% of the time. Luckily I took out the extended cover and is in the hands of the Apple Genius Bar in Cambridge…

All of this has meant no easy blogging, etc :-( so against the advise of my Mac Guru (Guy Dickinson) – (He suggested I wait a couple of weeks to see if Apple announce a new version of the Macbook Pro) I rang Apple, confirmed they could deliver in five days, and placed my order.

Imagine my disappointment/frustration/anger when their website is now quoting a delivery date of July 12th!!! 14 days from the date of order!

Time to become an unreasonable customer…

Can we really trust the experts?

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I came across this post ‘Business intelligence software product purchasing criteria’. The contributors are all very senior guys that should ‘know their onions’.

Bullet one gets off to a really great start, suggesting you should first check to make sure you cannot get by with the tools you already have – All good stuff

It rapidly goes down hill from there on in. For me it fails to mention the most critical bit – GIGO…

Organisation that don’t have accurate, complete, timely, trusted, relevant, understood data, don’t manage data as an asset, they don’t have a culture of information, and therefore do not engineer Data Quality controls and monitors into every step of their data processing chain.

Organisations that don’t do these things are advised not to be ambitions about their ROI case for BI investment - Perhaps it does not matter - if you don't do the above, you probably don't do business cases... You certainly won't do 'BI' - but you will have shiny tin and new tools

Batman and Robin tackles Dirty Data in Gotham City!

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If you are mildly amused by Batman and Robin analogies and are affected by or interested in data quality, this post on Data Migration Pro might produce a smile :-)