Data Quality by the Numbers: Best Practices for Managing Business Data

The use of data quality technology for customer data is far more prevalent than the use of the technology for business data. The reason for this imbalance has as much to do with the organizations that are acquiring data quality solutions as it does with data quality technology itself. Many data quality companies simply cannot support business data to any significant degree. Even some of the companies that profess to support business data can only do so to a limited degree. This paper will consider the issue of business data and look at some of the most common types of business data, as well as at some of the more esoteric kinds of this data.