Monthly Archives: February 2014

Companies everywhere are beginning to realize their need to use better technologies for data quality, but following through on this ideal is easier said than done.

In the rapidly evolving world of medical devices, government intervention makes it more difficult for manufacturers to meet their many needs.

Should good data be a company-wide focus, or should it merely be a job for the IT department?

Incidents of data theft are on the rise, as are the costs associated with them. A 2012 survey conducted by the National Cyber Security Alliance and McAfee found that one in four Americans had been officially notified that key elements of their personal information had been lost. With the recent announcements of data theft and hacking at Target, Neiman Marcus, and Adobe, the former two being propagated by a teenager, this is a topic we will be hearing about a lot more.

There is a lot of debate occurring in America today about how best to fix the higher education system.

Every company that peddles in large volumes of customer information has a need to maintain high levels of data quality.

Data quality is important, but security and compliance are equally vital.

For organizations that rely heavily on banks of consumer data - ranging from retail companies that keep tabs on their customers to government offices that provide essential public services - there's a need for high-quality data.

While companies have made great strides in recent years in information mining, collecting more information about their customers and the economy at large than ever before, they still have plenty of work to do in terms of data quality.

All the hype indicates that education data is moving forward at a ferocious pace.