Data quality and governance

- You need to make data quality a top priority…in your overall Enterprise Data Environment,…but data quality does not happen by accident…nor will it be sustained by itself.…Data governance is a critically important aspect…to your environment.…Before focusing on the future state,…you need to be crystal clear about the overall…data quality in your current environment.…The good news is that the results from your…scorecard effort should clearly indicate…what that current state is.…But regardless of whether the relevant scores…for data quality are good or bad, you will need…to dig into the details specifically in two areas.…

First, we have the fundamental correctness…of your data.…Is the value of any given piece…of data in any component in your enterprise…actually correct?…Or has the value somehow been corrupted,…and instead is incorrect?…And you usually can tell this by incorrect data…showing up on reports or many of the other things…that will be reported by the people responding…to the survey scorecards.…Second, because of the nature of Enterprise Data…