In any MDM initiative duplicate records will present a major challenge but when an organisation attempts to consolidate 800+ systems into a single customer hub the challenge is made all the greater.

In this interview Jill Wanless shares some of her experiences and tips for getting a data quality program off the ground and moving in the right direction.

In this guest post, regular expert panelist and featured contributor Arkady Maydanchik provides yet another detailed extract from his excellent book: "Data Quality Assessment". The 6th in a series, this post defines the various attribute dependency data quality rules and provides a strategy for discovering them.

John Schmidt came to our attention as he has considerable experience in launching competency centres - resources which are extremely useful for increasing data quality awareness and improvement across the organisation.

In this post we speak to John Owens, the creator of the Integrated Modelling Method (IMM), a framework that combines all the modelling techniques that are so often lacking in organisations that are looking to improve data quality.

In this interview we talk with Ismael Caballero, one of the leading contributors to the Information Quality Management Framework (IQMF).

We find out more about the reasons for creating the framework, who was involved and how our readers and members can benefit from using it.

In this guest post by Peter Benson, ISO 8000 Project Leader, we learn about the international data quality standard and how it benefits data consumers

This tutorial by Arkady Maydanchik focuses on how to create a state dependent data quality rules process for your data quality management programme. This is an essential and often overlooked aspect of data quality improvement initiatives.

Learn how KFR Services went beyond Six Sigma levels of Data Quality to create an unbeatable competitive advantage in the telecoms sector.