Data Demands More Attention

DM Review, January, 2008 by Stephen Gallagher

DM Review welcomes Stephen Gallagher as a new columnist. He has more than 20 years of industry experience and will share his expertise on corporate business intelligence strategy for data management.

Data is the lifeblood of an organization when it is timely, accurate, complete and secure because it supports better decision-making. Yet for many organizations, these core data management and architecture components have yet to be fully harnessed.

If data provides the foundation for critical and everyday business decisions, it is essential that decision-makers can access and depend on quality data to operate confidently in a high-performance business. Data quality is the first of four building blocks essential to achieving effective enterprise data management (EDM)....