Saturday 24 August 2013

It's Not the Size, but the Quality of Data That Counts

The shiny objects, er, trends, that many marketers are obsessed with today are Big Data, cloud technologies, and social, Trillium Software SVP of Marketing Len DuBois pointed out during a recent conversation. And all for good reason. But sometimes big trends can overshadow more low-profile but equally important ones. Data quality, for example.
“One of the biggest, but often underplayed, trends is the shift in responsibility for data quality,” DuBois said. In most organizations IT often has oversight for data quality, as well as the tools to maintain it. Increasingly, however, data oversight is moving to the business side, which is often responsible for taking action on that data and is closer to what should be improved and how. And with today's technologies it's easier than ever for business users and analysts to do “self-service” data quality, he said.
Read more here:http://www.dmnews.com/its-not-the-size-but-the-quality-of-data-that-counts/article/308699/

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