Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality: Methods for Reducing Costs and Increasing Profits

Index

A

Accessibility, 143, 151

Account statements, 52

Accounts receivable, 26, 37

Accuracy assessment, identification. See Data validation sources.

Acronym clarity. See Business.

Administrators, 58

Advertisements, 52

Analysts, 58

Application design, best practices, 305–306

Application developers, 28

Application development, 34, 42. 354, 362–364, 377–380

Application maintenance, cost reduction, 354

Application productivity, 304

Application quality improvement process, 362–364

Application requirements, 352–355

Applications designers/developers, 59

Appraisal methods, 424

Architects, 58

Architecture. See Data.

quality. See Information architecture quality.

Attribute definition, 88, 98–99

Attributes. See Data.

definitions, 242

name clarity, 87, 94

Attribute-to-entity-type relationships, 132

quality, 107–108

Automated data assessment. See Business rule conformance.

Automated information quality assessment, process description, 178–182

Automated scheduling, features, 330

Awakening, 429, 432–434, 436–437, 446–447

B

Baldrige, Malcolm, 50. See also Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

Barriers. See Business; Information systems; Quality information production.

analysis. See Systematic barriers.

Benchmark sample data, 330

Blame-free environment, 294

Bound. See Measurement.

BPR. See Business process reengineering.

Business

acronym clarity, 87, 95

analysts, 59

areas, barriers, 376–385

cost reduction, 343–345, 457–458

effectiveness, improvement, 457–458

events, 25

experts, 408–411

failure, ...