• Data quality surfaces to spur financial services

  By Joshua Gliddon | 21 September, 2011 09:48

  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.

• Oracle buys data quality vendor

  By Chris Kanaracus | 06 January, 2010 02:24

  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.

• What price CRM data quality?

  By David Taber | 21 July, 2009 04:13

  In an accounting or ERP system, most of the data must be right, period. If invoices, accounts receivable, inventories, work-in-process numbers, ECAD files are "best guesses," someone will lose their job and the CIO will be on the hot seat.

Whitepapers about data quality

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