Enterprise Knowledge Management: The Data Quality Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
Your company captures and stores tremendous amounts of information about every aspect of its business.  But with this rise in the quantity of information has come a corresponding decrease in itsquality.  Now more than ever, reversing this trend may spell the difference between success and failure.  How can you and your organization respond to this challenge?Enterprise Knowledge Managementgives you just what you need: a precise yet adaptable methodology for defining, measuring, and improving data quality and managing business intelligence.  This one-of-a-kind book begins by laying out an economic framework for understanding the real business value of data quality.  It then outlines rules for measuring data quality and determining where it can and should be improved.  Finally, it teaches proven techniques through which you can achieve meaningful advances in the quality of your business data, including domain- and mapping-based consolidation of enterprise knowledge.FeaturesExpert advice from a highly successful data quality consultant.Rigorously methodical in its approach to the problem and the detailed solution it presents.Teaches you to measure quality in real business terms and to achieve meaningful, demonstrable improvement.Uniquely combines business acumen and technical expertise-an indispensable resource for managers and IT professionals alike.Documents the high costs of bad data and details the options available to any company that wants to transform mere data into true enterprise knowledge.