Data Quality is a critical factor in an Enterprise’s ability to direct its operations based on business patterns and transaction history. Although perceived as a responsibility of the information technology practices it is in reality a responsibility that spans operations and back end data analysis functions as well.
Marc Hurst, a partner in the consulting firm HPSquared, LLC which provides data governance advisory services, is quoted as saying:
"Data Quality is one of the foundations of Information. Information is composed of Data plus structure and context. However, if the Data is wrong then you no longer have Information but noise and without Information it is not possible to run a modern competitive company."
Mr. Hurst provides his insight along with specific advice on a range of data related topics in his recurring blog. The readership of Mr. Hurst's blog continues to rise and is indicative of the interest in an experienced approach to managing the ever growing data repositories in many businesses.
For access to Mr. Hurst's blog, please go to http://hpsquared.wordpress.com/
