Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality: Methods for Reducing Costs and Increasing Profits
A comprehensive guide to quality improvement from the leading expert in information and data warehouse quality.\ Each year, companies lose millions as a result of inaccurate and missing data in their operational databases. This in turn corrupts data warehouses, causing them to fail. With information quality improvement and control systems, like the ones described in this book, your company can reduce costs and increase profits from quality information assets. Written by an internationally...
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A comprehensive guide to quality improvement from the leading expert in information and data warehouse quality. Each year, companies lose millions as a result of inaccurate and missing data in their operational databases. This in turn corrupts data warehouses, causing them to fail. With information quality improvement and control systems, like the ones described in this book, your company can reduce costs and increase profits from quality information assets. Written by an internationally recognized expert in information quality improvement, Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality arms you with a comprehensive set of tools and techniques for ensuring data quality both in-source databases and the data warehouse. With the help of best-practices case studies, Larry English fills you in on: How and when to measure information quality How to measure the business costs of poor quality information How to select the right information quality tools for your environment How to reengineer and cleanse data to improve the information product before it reaches your data warehouse How to improve the information creation processes at the source How to build quality controls into data warehouse processes About the Author Larry P. English is the leading international expert in the field of information and data warehouse quality. He is a columnist for Data Management Review and a featured speaker at numerous Data Warehousing Conferences. Larry chairs Information Quality Conferences held around the world. Booknews A practical approach to using information quality as a business management tool to reduce the business and systems costs resulting from poor information quality. Argues that information quality is not an isolated function, but an inherent and integral part of the business management and that everyone in the enterprise has a stewardship role in it. Includes a glossary without pronunciation guides. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPt. 1Principles of Information Quality Improvement1Ch. 1The High Costs of Low-Quality Data3Ch. 2Defining Information Quality15Ch. 3Applying Quality Management Principles to Information33Pt. 2Principles for Improving Information Quality67Ch. 4An Overview of Total Quality data Management (TQdM)69Ch. 5Assessing Data Definition and Information Architecture Quality83Ch. 6Information Quality Assessment137Ch. 7Measuring Nonquality Information Costs199Ch. 8Information Product Improvement: Data Reengineering and Cleansing237Ch. 9Improving Information Process Quality: Data Defect Prevention285Ch. 10Information Quality Tools and Techniques311Pt. 3Establishing the Information Quality Environment335Ch. 11The 14 Points of Information Quality337Ch. 12Information Stewardship: Accountability for Information Quality401Ch. 13Implementing an Information Quality Improvement Environment421Ch. 14Epilogue: Reaping the Benefits of Quality Information455Pt. 4Appendixes459App. A: Glossary461App. BInformation Quality Recommended Reading and Bibliography497Index509
\ BooknewsA practical approach to using information quality as a business management tool to reduce the business and systems costs resulting from poor information quality. Argues that information quality is not an isolated function, but an inherent and integral part of the business management and that everyone in the enterprise has a stewardship role in it. Includes a glossary without pronunciation guides. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
