White Papers & Analyst Reports
Building a robust
business case for high quality master data - An Information
Difference White Paper
Projects addressing data quality or master data management frequently struggle to get approved by senior management, and only around 60% of such projects proceed with a proper business case - causing high rates of cancellation and failure.
This white paper explains the key elements for building a proper, quantified business case. It presents the measures that are favored by corporate finance departments, and helps develop a strong business case for data quality and MDM projects. A number of real-life examples with quantifiable benefits are also included.
Armed with the materials in this white paper, you will be in a good position to deliver a high quality business case for your data quality or MDM project!
The Information Difference is an analyst firm focusing on Master Data Management (MDM). Its founders are pioneers who helped shape the MDM industry, with in-depth MDM global project experience.
Overcoming objections for data
governance
Data governance is an outstanding business strategy that leads your company toward greater efficiency, lower risk and increased revenue. Proper management of data underpins the success many strategic initiatives. However, it is not always easy for others to see its value.
This white paper discusses the techniques that have been successful for data champions as they "sell" the importance of data governance to their company. It examines guidelines for optimal project selection, tracking the value of data governance and techniques for overcoming objections to a data governance program.
Leveraging open source data quality - Practical examples
Poor-quality data affects all data-related projects and refers to the state of completeness, validity, consistency, timeliness and accuracy that makes data appropriate for a specific use.
This Technical White Paper presents the main challenges of data quality and drills into specific uses of data profiling and data cleansing. It highlights, through 32 distinct use cases, how open source data quality technology can be used to alleviate issues related to poor-quality data.
In
April 2010 Talend announced the release of Talend
4.0, a significant milestone for the company and the
data integration market. With this major upgrade to
the company's flagship data management solutions,
Talend is delivering the industry's first integrated
data management platform, uniting data integration,
data quality and master data management (MDM) within
a single solution. Let's focus on Talend Data
Quality with Steve Sarsfield, Product Marketing
Manager, Talend's Data Quality Solutions.
One of the most underutilized strategies during a recession and post-recession is up selling and cross selling to existing customers. After all, an existing customer is a proven entity. Yet one of the key challenges inhibiting the ability to cross-sell and up sell in the insurance industry is poor data quality and poor data integration with existing databases and CRM systems. Yet better data collection and data analytics enables sales agents to better understand their customers and anticipate their needs better. So how do insurance companies get more sophisticated in how they compile, aggregate and analyze data?
Talend offers two ways to help improve data quality, Talend Open Profiler and Talend Data Quality. Talend Open Profiler is an open, GPL licensed data profiling tool that can tell you much about the current state of your data. It includes features for column analyses, dependency analyses and even custom analyses for validating data against your own data quality standards. Best of all, it's a free 
Onboard Informatics, the leading provider of trusted real estate solutions and Web services to some of the most innovative companies in real estate, media and technology, has chosen Talend's open source data management software to cleanse and process hundreds of Multiple Listing Service (MLS) approved data feeds on a weekly basis.
ABA Seguros, a GMAC insurance company specializing in Property and Casualty (P&C) throughout Mexico, has selected Talend Integration Suite and Talend Data Quality to streamline its data management processes. Talend's integrated solutions enable ABA Seguros to efficiently process, cleanse and standardize customer and catalog data for improved business operations. 
Starting in September 2010, technical workshops on our data quality solutions,
Talend's free Webinars cover both product information and open source data integration, data quality and MDM technology.
Talend will participate in the MIT 2010 Information Quality Industry Symposium on July, 14-16. Steve Sarsfield, Talend's Data Quality Product Marketing Manager and Sebastiao Correia, Talend's Data Quality Team Leader will present a session: "Building an Open Source Data Quality Solution".
