Infoblueprint
Information Services in Cape Town

InfoBlueprint - Specialists in Data Management and Information Quality.

InfoBluePrint is dedicated to helping you optimally manage your critical business data as a valuable corporate asset. Depending on the problems found when measuring the data, we determine how best to improve the quality; for example what data is incomplete (missing), what data is not unique (duplicated) and what data does not comply with the Business Rules. Data Correction can be undertaken using manual or automated processes. Data that is inaccurate and does not comply with business rules needs to be corrected to represent the accurate values. Data that is duplicated needs to be matched, then merged and de-duplicated where appropriate, or managed to be kept aligned. However it is also important to understand what went wrong! We do this by determining the root causes of the Data Quality problems, preferably prior to fixing the data. How do you go about ensuring that new data collected, from the initial process to the final steps, is of good quality? This typically involves implementing preventative steps to improve and monitor processes to prevent Data Quality problems, as opposed to correcting existing data defects. A data model must be developed to reflect all the data of interest to the solution. The solution must be developed based on a rigorous Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology. Data Quality requirements must be considered as part of the development process and not as an afterthought. Data Governance must ensure that the data in scope has an owner who is accountable for the quality of the Data. Data Quality should always be considered within the bigger picture of Data Management (DM). The DAMA DMBOK Framework shows the functional areas that need to be considered to ensure that the data which is collected and used is of good quality. Leading companies that have embraced formal and mature information management practices have shown that quality controlled data results in measurable business benefits, by reducing costs, increasing opportunities and meeting compliance requirements. InfoBluePrint offers courses to assist large or small organisations to understand, implement and manage all aspects of data management. InfoBluePrint is growing to meet the needs of our customers and the ever increasing demand for professional data quality management. InfoBluePrint is able to supply highly skilled resources on a short or long term contract basis to help you fully staff your data management project.