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Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality:
Methods for Reducing Costs and Increasing Profits
Larry English
Data quality is one of the most important, but least understood issues
facing organisations at the opening of the 21st century. Many organisations
are waking up to the fact that this is a problem area. Surveys into the
underlying cause of many IT project failures cite poor data quality as
a primary cause. Yet very few organisations are stepping up to the task
of making data quality an integral part of their business processes. To
paraphrase Mark Twain, Data Quality is something that everyone wants to
achieve, but no one wants to go through the effort of achieving.
Larry English has long been established as the number one guru on data
quality, and this book is the bible for all those working on data quality
programmes. It is a great book. If you only ever read one book on this
subject, this book should be it. But it is not an easy book. It is so dense
with Larrry's ideas, experience and detailed understanding that it is hard
to assimilate. I defy anybody to read it all the way through without getting
a headache.
My advice would be to read it in sections, then stop, think about it, write
down how you are going to apply the ideas from that section to your own
situation, step and repeat. (actually, this kind of iterative thinking
is what underlies most successful data quality projects).
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