Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality: Methods for Reducing

"The Information Quality Bible for the Information Age!"—Masaaki Imai, Founder, Kaizen Institute and Bud H. Cox, Managing Director, Kaizen Institute of Japan.

". . . Very lively reading. The book belongs on the bookshelf of every manager and technician."—Bill Inmon, "Father of Data Warehousing," Pine Cone Systems.

Each year, companies lose millions as a result of inaccurate and missing data in their operational databases. This in turn corrupts data warehouses, causing them to fail. With information quality improvement and control systems, like the ones described in this book, your company can reduce costs and increase profits from quality information assets. Written by an internationally recognized expert in information quality improvement, Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality arms you with a comprehensive set of tools and techniques for ensuring information quality both in source databases and the data warehouse.

Each year, companies lose millions as a result of inaccurate and missing data in their operational databases. This in turn corrupts data warehouses, causing them to fail. With information quality improvement and control systems, like the ones described in this book, your company can reduce costs and increase profits from quality information assets. Written by an internationally recognized expert in information quality improvement, Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality arms you with a comprehensive set of tools and techniques for ensuring information quality both in source databases and the data warehouse.

Larry P. English is the leading international expert in the field of information and data warehouse quality. He has provided consulting and educational services in at least 20 countries and on 4 continents. DAMA awarded him the 1998 "Individual Achievement Award" for his contributions to the field of information and resource management.

He writes the "Plain English on Data Quality" column for Data Management Review and is a featured speaker at numerous data warehousing conferences. Larry chairs information quality conferences held around the world.