Over time, enterprises have usually considered data migrations a task that falls mostly to IT. Considering how crucial data migrations are to business processes, companies need to develop migration strategies that focus on the real purpose: business-ready and business-usable data. The owners of key business knowledge should be fully involved in plans and many tasks [...]

Many organizations are gaining better understanding and appreciation for their enterprise data: Data is a valuable asset that is still largely untapped Data is only valuable if it can be used Data value increases greatly with quality and reliability Data integration isn’t just about moving datasets to different destinations. Those different data destinations are likely [...]

Data profiling and remediation of poor quality data requires extra manpower to build, extra thought and planning to determine what metrics to use, extra software to make it happen. Why bother?