With the conclusion of this fiscal year, we can now report on the growth trend of these databases. This includes baseline, development, QA, training, production, and administrative databases. There are already several projects lining up for the next year, so it is probable we will see significant increases again a year from now. In Larry English s book, Improving Data Warehouse and Business Quality Information, he writes on the topic of Information. Information is data in context.
Information is usable data.
Information is the meaning of data, so facts become understandable. Nonquality of any of these three components can cause a business process to fail or a wrong decision to be made. Information is applied data. From a business prospective, information may be well defined, the values may be accurate, and it may be presented meaningfully, but it still may not be a valuable enterprise resource. Quality information, in and of itself, is useless.