Managing critical information assets is challenging, especially when the average organsiation is experiencing data volume growth at an expoential rate.  Data integrity issues exacerbate the problem.  Not knowing what data in the expanding collections of information is correct, erodes an organisation's confidence in using the data.  Whole systems applications such as CRM, ERP or BI go under-utilised because of the perception of defects.  

A Data Quality Assessment is a service provided by Identex to understand, measure, and analyse data quality within an organisation.  It is the foundation of any data quality project in order to establish current issues, plan for data cleansing and understand the business impact that poor quality data has on the business.  It can also be used to monitor and manage data over time, to ensure that proactive data quality initiatives deliver measurable and consistent results.  The solution helps:

• Understand the data quality issues and its business impact 
• Analyse disparate data sources
• Create a better understanding of critical business components
• Establish budgetary requirements for creating and maintaining high quality information
• Improve business rules for high quality data input
• Save money and time spent correcting data-related problems
• Measure and track results continually over time
• Establish benchmarks to monitor data quality problems
• Measure and track results continually over time