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Knowledge Integrity offers technical
consulting services for many aspects of information management, including
information architecture, information quality, data warehousing, data mining,
as well as assessments and assistance in technology acquisition. For more information
about any of these offerings, or to inquire about other services, please email or call David Loshin
at 1-866-249-7853.
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Information Quality
Business Case Analysis
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How do
you communicate the importance of high quality data to your organization's
management? In today's business environment, it is critical that one
present a reasonable business case indicating the high value of quality
information and the return on investment of instituting an information
quality program. Knowledge Integrity's analysts are experienced in
assessing the impacts of poor data quality and exploring how data quality
improvement reverberates across the enterprise. In addition, our role as
external advisors allows for an unbiased review of the potential ROI of
information quality improvement.
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Information Quality
Assessment
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In
addition to our business case analysis, Knowledge Integrity can swiftly
analyze selected data via data profiling and data quality reviews to
provide an objective data quality assessment. Our analysts work with the
client to identify a target data set, to review the results of a profiling
assessment, to identify data quality business rules, to measure compliance
with those rules, and to correlate violations and noncompliance with
specific business impacts and risks.
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Information Quality
Management Program Development
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Is your
organization ready to create an information quality management program?
Knowledge Integrity can assist in identifying guiding principles,
developing information quality guidelines, strategic goals and tactical
steps to achieving measurable information quality improvement with targeted
business benefits. Our methodology identifies the components and processes
critical to information quality success, as well as training in how to
navigate the organizational behavior issues that can impede program
success.
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Information Quality
Management Coordination
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Sometimes
organizational issues can get in the way of program success, and in these
cases outsourcing information quality management coordination will remove
the obstacles to achieving your organization's goals. Knowledge Integrity
information quality coordinators are available for on-site program
coordination.
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Information
Stewardship Program Development
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Data
ownership issues run wide and deep across many enterprises. One way to ease
the transition to a high-quality information organization is to institute
information stewardship, an approach to assigning responsibility and
accountability over data to internal staff members. Knowledge Integrity
analysts will train your staff in the area of information stewardship,
adapt information stewardship policies and procedures to your
organization's unique environment, and help deploy an information
stewardship program.
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Data Standards
Development
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Anytime information is
exchanged there is an opportunity for nonconformance and errors to be
introduced. The solution lie sin the definition of data standards for information
exchange. Whether this refers to developing a catalog of common business
terms and their definitions, developing data formatting standards, or
instituting a framework for information exchange, Knowledge Integrity
analysts can advise your organization's data exchange participants in
resolving differences in information semantics and syntax, and help deploy
a metadata-based data standards repository.
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Data Quality Tool Requirements
Analysis
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You've
already made the case to your senior management, and they have agreed to
begin an information quality program. Before you jump to purchase data
quality tools, do you know whether you are looking for a profiling tool, a
standardization tool, a matching tool, an auditing tool, a scorecard
generator? Knowledge Integrity can facilitate the analysis of requirements
and help determine which type of software tools will provide the greatest
benefit. Researching tool requirements prior to issuing that RFP can shave
months off the review process, and will result in a quicker return on your
software investment.
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Data Quality Tool
Acquisition Consulting
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If you
know what kind of software tools will most ably address your information quality
needs, Knowledge Integrity will manage the acquisition process, ranging from
drafting Requests for Information (RFIs) and Requests for Proposals (RFPs),
to developing application evaluation and benchmarking plans. We will manage
the process at your location or provide similar services at our independent
testing facility. Lastly, Knowledge Integrity will prepare a report
reviewing how well different vendor products address your organization's
needs.
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Data Cleansing
Services
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If you
are simply interested in periodic assessment and cleansing of your data,
Knowledge Integrity can provide outsourced profiling, standardization, and
cleansing services. We are also available for service agreements for
maintaining the quality and integrity of your information assets.
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Information
Management Needs Assessment
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Is your
organization planning to embark on a data warehousing project?
Reengineering a production application? Embarking on a modernization
program? If so, Knowledge Integrity advisors will provide an assessment of
your current information infrastructure, assist in designing a future
information architecture, and provide a roadmap for migration.
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The Data Value
Assessment
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It has become clear
that low-quality data has a significant effect not just on the ability to
exploit the corporate information asset, but it in turn has a deleterious
effect on the ability to successfully complete prototype systems. This
correlates to the findings of the PriceWaterhouseCoopers 2001 Data Management
Survey, where 75% of the C-level executive respondents reported significant
problems as a result of defective data. And according to the Data
Warehousing Institute's 2002 Report on Data Quality, the cost of poor data
quality to US businesses exceeds $600 billion each year.
A simple approach to
addressing the data quality problem involves identifying objective metrics
for measuring the quality of data, performing assessments of the quality of
data using these metrics, and using the results of these assessments to
find and correct problems in the information supply chain where
noncompliant data is imported or created and fix the problem at the source
rather than correcting data at the point of problem manifestation.
Knowledge Integrity has
developed methodology for applying a rule-based, metadata approach to data
quality assessment, along with a data quality developer's toolkit that both
archives data quality rule sets as well as automates the generation of
applicationware to isolate and extract nonconformant data . The use of this
approach simplifies and institutionalizes the data quality improvement
process in a rapid and repeatable way. Our service approach is to combine a
pilot data assessment with multiple training sessions where we transfer our
methodology in-house so that this methodology becomes integral to a
company's data intelligence process.
Our goal is to showcase
the value of applying our approach to rule-based retargetable data quality
by measuring, isolating, and addressing data quality problems as early as
possible within the project life-cycle. This value is demonstrated by
removing the obstacles to project success due to poor data quality.
In order to demonstrate
this value, we analyze both the data sets and the documentation of a
customer-selected database, identify data quality rules, integrate those
rules using our DQ toolkit, and demonstrate how our tools can automatically
generate software to measure conformance of data with the rule set. The
result is a data quality scorecard that highlights the most
business-critical data quality problems along with their associated
business impacts, which in turn can be used to develop an ROI model for
initiating a data quality improvement program.
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