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Five Steps to More Valuable Enterprise Data

Overview

Companies worldwide struggle with inconsistent, inaccurate or unreliable data - and often don't know how to build more useful corporate information. This white paper examines a five-step method for improving your data, using data profiling, data quality, data integration and other methods to find and fix bad data.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	DataFlux	File Format	PDF
Date Published	March 2008	Downloads	7
Format	White Papers
Topics	Knowledge and Data Management, Data Quality, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing

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