Business Services Industry
Rewards flow from tapping a source of clean data.
Australasian Business Intelligence, April, 2007
Byline: Helen Meredith
Apr 16, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Business groups need data that has been gathered correctly and that is accurate. They need a continuous flow of this information, to aid effective decision-making. Gartner Group has noted that every company has a data problem. The internet is now a great source of clean, uncorrupted, accurate data. Business intelligence (BI) must be constant, accurate and uninterrupted. This is why products such as Dow Jones's Factiva suite are so important. Factiva makes use of text and visualisation to extract meaning from "clean data". Factiva also allows clients to absorb huge amounts of information very quickly. Another use for BI is in electronic health services, where data must...
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