Continuous Data Quality Management:
The Cornerstone of Zero-Latency Business Analytics
Part 2: One Solution
Greg Leman, CEO, Metagenix, Inc. - October 18, 2002

Implementing A CDQM Application

It is impossible to improve that which cannot be measured. A CDQM (Continuous Data Quality Management) tool provides a real-time, up-to-date scorecard to measure data quality within the enterprise. By checking data quality in real-time, “data fires” can be detected when they are just starting, before any real damage has occurred. Most enterprises fight fires with axes, fire hoses, trucks, and hordes of firemen, but the CDQM approach is a smoke detector. It’s far less expensive to put a fire out when it’s just smoldering, rather than to extinguish a blazing house fire and then remodel the entire house...