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Simple steps that'll improve data quality by Natalya Eliana
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Simple steps that'll improve data quality |
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Computers
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Hand on heart; are you happy or unhappy with the quality of your data? It's not easy to implement data management strategies so they improve data quality. It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the size of the task and data quality can suffer as a result. It's important for a business to improve data quality this can have far-reaching consequences for the company. If your business has adopted a clear strategy data quality shouldn't be an issue. Improve data quality and you provide better services for your clients. Leave it as it is and there could be trouble ahead. How do you improve data quality though and streamline data management at the same time? For starters look at the way you are storing information at the moment. Are you working with the best solutions for data quality at the present? If the data management system uses complex solutions couldn't you simplify it with an easy-to-use package? Put somebody in charge of data quality and have data stewards that can marshal new entries and validate information as it goes on the system. Adopt proven frameworks and take a step back from time to time to see if the quality of the data is good or needs improvement. How much data do you keep at the moment, does that have an impact on the data quality? See you can trim the amount of data that you store or at least, make it easier for people to read. Attention to detail is important with data quality. Data managementsystems are only as good as the people that are punching the data in. So emphasize the importance of reducing input errors and that'll improve the quality. If you are gathering information from customers or team members that work out in the field their opinion on data quality can be useful. Do they find systems easy to use; are forms tricky to fill out, could the quality of the data be affected as a result? There are various ways you can improve data quality if you use a little thought. Plus there are good quality data management systems on the marketplace that are ready to download and you can find them through easy-to-access websites like masterdata.co.za.
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