THE COMMON PROBLEMS WITH DATA
Unfortunately, in many organisations there are some major, yet unrecognised or misunderstood, data problems. These problems are generally caused by a combination of the proliferation of duplicate, and often inconsistent, occurrences of data and the misinterpretation and misunderstanding of the data caused by the lack of a cohesive, enterprise-wide data definition regime.
Whenever it is possible for any item of information to be held as data more than once, there is a possibility of inconsistency. For example, if the addresses of customers are held in more than one place – or, more specifically, in more than one information system – and a customer informs the company that they have changed their address, there is ...
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