By Dr. John R. Talburt Does your organization use data for analytics? Are you trying to? Does your company use internal and/or external data for marketing campaigns, cross sell opportunities or customer analysis of any kind? If your business, institution, or organization is involved in the process of data management…
The Top 5 Questions We Get Asked the Most About Master Data Management
If your company collects data about your customers, your sales, or your marketing efforts, master data management (MDM) should be on your to-do list. Challenges like security leaks and imperfect MDM systems are probably holding you back—but if you are not sure how to manage your data, here are answers…
4 Facts About Entity Resolution That Should Keep You Up at Night
Entity resolution is the vital process of identifying, grouping, and linking digital records. For example, you may have several different versions of your name, address, and phone number in different locations. Entity resolution software for big data simplifies this information. Yet the process is not easy, and can easily go…
Newsflash: Data Governance Is Not Just an IT Problem
Poor data can affect an organization at every level. Supply-chain management, e-commerce, enterprise systems and CRM all rely on accurate and complete data to operate at a high level. But often, data governance strategy is perceived to be an IT tool. In reality, poor data affects every department. Poor data…
5 Critical Components of MDM in EHR
Master data management (MDM) is a clear necessity in the healthcare industry—accuracy is paramount where health is concerned—but that does not mean that just any MDM system will do. There are two types of data management in healthcare: identity data, which looks at patient and provider information, and reference data,…
How Can You Know if HiPER Is Right for You?
Choose Right Proprietary Data Management System Today, implementing the right clinical data management solutions is critical. But how do you know what those are? High Performance Entity Resolution (HiPER) software is an advanced entity resolution solution that can provide configurable and accurate data management. When you evaluate HiPER, we will…
Why We Aren’t Writing a ‘2017 Big Data Trends’ Think Piece
Moving Past Trends If you are looking for theory and conjecture concerning your data, you can find it quite easily. There is no shortage of people claiming to know the “latest big data trends of 2017.” But do they really help you in moving forward with your data in 2017, or will…
Do You Know How Many Customers You Really Have?
Without proper customer master data management, it can be difficult to determine the scale and type of client that you have or that you wish to acquire. One of the major problems with tracking customers is trying to determine how to improve poor data quality: without data that is clean…
Marketing to Millennials: Big Data’s Impact on the Retail Space
Millennials can hold the key to the future of any consumer-driven business, with this generation having $1.3 trillion worth of spending power per annum, according to the Boston Consulting Group. Millennials are also the most diverse and digitally-connected group of individuals the world has ever seen, which means your retail…
Why and How: The Identity Matching Process of Entity Resolution Explained
The number one issue concerning data quality today is the existence of multiple sources for the same information. When this problem becomes excessive, your organization begins to collect duplicate data, creating multiple identities for the same entity. If your team is not aware of this systematic issue, you could be…