Business Intelligence Lowdown: Data Quality goes from Bad to Worse

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January 11, 2006

Data Quality goes from Bad to Worse

In a poll conducted by Business Intelligence Pipeline in October 2004, readers were asked to rate the overall quality of their enterprise data for analytical purposes, as excellent, good, fair or poor. The responses were not too spectacular; around 19 percent awarded an "excellent" rating to their data quality, nearly 12 percent said it was "good", over 50 percent said their data was of "fair" quality, and only 19 percent rated their data quality as "poor".

A similar poll conducted towards the end of 2005 has shown the previous year's results in good light. An astounding 30 percent rated their data quality "poor", which Business Intelligence Pipeline deems, "often worthless for BI purposes". Only 4 percent said their data quality was "excellent". The number of "fair" ratings also slipped to 43 percent. The only consolation was in the "good" category, with 23 percent of readers voting that their data quality was good.

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