2 CHALLENGES WHEN EXPLOITING AND MANAGING DATA

Managing data quality is not an easy or simple task, and there are various factors that determine the purpose and scope of data quality management in an enterprise context. This chapter explores the challenges of those factors and provides a summary checklist to help you identify those challenges that apply in your own organisation.

THE COMPLEX DATA LANDSCAPE

Within all but the smallest of organisations and enterprises, there will typically be numerous enterprise software tools, specialist decision support tools and databases or spreadsheets created by end users. There could also be a legacy of paper records and documents to consider. When cloud data stores and web-based software services that ...

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