Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality: Methods for Reducing Costs and Increasing Profits / Edition 1

Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality: Methods for Reducing Costs and Increasing Profits / Edition 1

by Larry P. English
     
 

Methods for Reducing Costs and Increasing Profits.

"The Information Quality Bible for the Information Age!"-Masaaki Imai, Founder, Kaizen Institute and Bud H. Cox, Managing Director, Kaizen Institute of Japan.

". . . Very lively reading. The book belongs on the bookshelf of every manager and technician."-Bill Inmon, "Father of Data Warehousing," Pine Cone

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Overview

Methods for Reducing Costs and Increasing Profits.

"The Information Quality Bible for the Information Age!"-Masaaki Imai, Founder, Kaizen Institute and Bud H. Cox, Managing Director, Kaizen Institute of Japan.

". . . Very lively reading. The book belongs on the bookshelf of every manager and technician."-Bill Inmon, "Father of Data Warehousing," Pine Cone Systems.

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 information quality both in source databases and the data warehouse.

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 information quality both in source databases and the data warehouse.

Larry P. English is the leading international expert in the field of information and data warehouse quality. He has provided consulting and educational services in at least 20 countries and on 4 continents. DAMA awarded him the 1998 "Individual Achievement Award" for his contributions to the field of information and resource management.

He writes the "Plain English on Data Quality" column for Data Management Review and is a featured speaker at numerous data warehousing conferences. Larry chairs information quality conferences held around the world.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:
9780471253839
Publisher:
Wiley
Publication date:
03/25/1999
Series:
Wiley Computer Publishing Series
Edition description:
New Edition
Pages:
544
Product dimensions:
9.25(w) x 7.50(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATION QUALITY IMPROVEMENT.

The High Costs of Low- Quality Data.

Defining Information Quality.

Applying Quality Management Principles to Information.

PRINCIPLES FOR IMPROVING INFORMATION QUALITY.

An Overview of Total Quality Data Management (TQdM).

Assessing Data Definition and Information ArchitectureQuality.

Information Quality Assessment.

Measuring Nonquality Information Costs.

Information Product Improvement: Data Reengineering andCleansing.

Improving Information Process Quality: Data DefectPrevention.

Information Quality Tools and Techniques.

ESTABLISHING THE INFORMATION QUALITY ENVIRONMENT.

The 14 Points of Information Quality.

Information Stewardship: Accountability for InformationQuality.

Implementing an Information Quality Improvement Environment.

Epilogue: Reaping the Benefits of Quality Information.

Appendices.

Index.

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