
5.7 Closing Remarks ! Ol
Monitoring can include a number of things: feedback on rejected transactions,
periodic execution of rule sets over databases, and periodic thorough data
profiling.
Feedback on rejected transactions is important because excessive rejection
indicates poor business process design. It is easy to accomplish this, but it is
rarely done. Indications of the quantity of rejects, the point of rejection, and the
data elements causing the rejection provide valuable information to data qual-
ity assurance staff, application developers, and business process designers.
An example of this is to design ...