Business Intelligence Network - The Vision for BI and Beyond

Data quality issues are intrinsic within enterprise data in a business environment that enables data entry and storage in multiple sources, various formats, and utilizing a multiplicity of media. Industry estimates report 80% of a company's data is stored in unstructured formats without analysis or integration in other company stores. Making data a powerful tool to drive business profitability, competitive advantage and strategy has often become an overlooked and expensive task, until now.

This paper explores the impact of enterprise data quality and a solution providing complete management of structured and unstructured data in a cost effective model, with no licenses, no term commitments, and no upfront hardware. This flexible solution provides support for all critical data quality processes including:

• Profiling
• De-duplication
• Standardization
• Fuzzy Match
• Enhancement
• Integration