• Data quality surfaces to spur financial services

  Poor data quality is robbing insurers and financial institutions of between 15 and 25 per cent of operating profits, exposing it as low hanging fruit for the growth-starved financial services industry.

• Finance flags data quality issues at ComSuper

  The Department of Finance has moved to avoid future regulatory breaches and service quality issues associated with the agency responsible for managing public service and Defence superannuation schemes, ComSuper.

• Vic govt inks $5M spatial mapping deal

  The Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) has renewed a $5 million three-year deal for its state property mapping system with IT services company Logica.

• Oracle buys data quality vendor

  Acquisition-happy Oracle has made its first purchase of the year, announcing late Monday that it has scooped up Westminster, Colorado, data-quality vendor Silver Creek Systems. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

• Talend readies open-source tool to tackle dirty data

  Open source data integration vendor Talend has unveiled a tool aimed at scrubbing dirty data from corporate information repositories.

Whitepapers about data quality

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  Seven Steps to Effective Data Governance

  Creating a framework to ensure the confidentiality, quality, and integrity of data – the core meaning of data governance – is essential to meet both internal and external requirements, such as financial reporting, regulatory compliance, and privacy policies. At its best, data governance roots out risk – both business and compliance risk – by increasing oversight. This white paper provides seven steps for taking such an approach, concluding with a real world example, taking an incremental approach using a repeatable framework that is a practical, proven strategy that any size organization can implement to suit their immediate and long-term needs and budget.

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  Optimizing Data Quality in the Enterprise - How to Tackle Your Bad Information