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Accurate. Up-to-Date. Complete.

With traditional tools and techniques for data quality, it may seem like you can only pick two from that list—sometimes only one.

That’s fine when you’re dealing with structured data and individual applications within your organization. But data quality is evolving. Today the focus is increasingly on providing the right data, in the right format, at the right time, to broad, global systems that drive strategic business goals. It’s about finding the connections between people, accounts and transactions to meet compliance requirements. It’s also about supporting critical business intelligence and master data management initiatives.

THESE CHANGING REQUIREMENTS ARE CREATING NEW
DATA QUALITY CHALLENGES:

• The need to process more data in less time
• The need to incorporate unstructured data, drawn from e-mail, text documents and other non-traditional sources
• The need to handle multiple languages and character sets as business goes global
• The need to maintain consistency between new data flowing into the system and the data warehouse between refreshes

What’s needed today is a set of tools that provides a more flexible approach to data quality—whether you’re building a traditional data warehouse or embedding services in online applications

Identity Systems can provide the technology and the services to help you meet your evolving data quality needs.