As obvious as its benefits may sound, many organizations have not thought of assessing the quality of the data residing in their mission-critical systems. Due to a variety of business drivers, there is a clear need to establish an enterprise-wide Digital Backbone of integrated applications. Once such a backbone is established, mission-critical data can seamlessly flow across applications, legacy systems can be synchronized with newer applications, and over a period of time applications can be consolidated by migrating them to a new system (s).
During the application integration and/or migration projects, having a thorough assessment of the quality of the data is essential. With such assessment, data transformation rules can be established that cover all classification of data, anomalies in the data, and patterns in the data. In addition, data quality assessment can lead to on-going data correction and repair cycle leading to substantial improvement in the quality of mission-critical data.
eQube-DP assesses data quality and provides data correction/repair capabilities. It interrogates the data in legacy systems/enterprise systems to understand its 'quality'. It identifies anomalies, similarities, and patterns in the data. Such qualification of data then can be used not only to correct and repair the data, but also as an essential step in establishing transformation rules for application migration and integration.
eQube-DP assesses data quality and provides data correction/repair capabilities. It interrogates the data in legacy systems/enterprise systems to understand its 'quality'. It identifies anomalies, similarities, and patterns in the data. Such qualification of data then can be used not only to correct and repair the data, but also as an essential step in establishing transformation rules for application migration and integration.
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Data quality assessment
eQube-DP is used during the data discovery phase to understand various facets of data including data quality. eQube-DP assesses data quality and provides data correction and repair capabilities.
eQube-DP analyzes data from disparate systems and provides quality assessment based on semantics. For example; 'part' is defined as a semantic concept which is represented by multiple objects/relationships in different systems. eQube-DP can identify commonalties, correlations, and differences ('quality') for 'part' irrespective of its data structure in those systems. Such qualification of data then can be used not only to correct and repair the data, but also as an essential step in establishing transformation rules for application migration and integration.
Legacy systems tend to be several years old and during those years, business rules/business conditions tend to change substantially. Businesses/divisions merge, are divested or purchased, leading to data quality issues in systems. It is prudent for any business to perform a thorough data quality assessment across mission-critical applications.
Data quality assessments can identify classification of data, anomalies in the data, similarities and patterns in data. eQube-DP has extensive capabilities to interrogate data and establish a quality assessment of that data. Furthermore, it has the abilities to create rules on the fly and apply them to the data to pinpoint anomalies in the data and/or to identify patterns in the data. Following figure shows examples of eQube-DP based analysis.
Such data quality assessment can lead to establishing comprehensive rules for data transformation during application integration/migration projects. As per eQ's proven IETLV methodology for application integration and migration, eQ recommends the use of eQube-DP up-front in the project.
In addition, eQube-DP allows for data correction and repair. If the customer desires to correct/repair the data in the source system (s), then utilizing eQube-MI, under stringent governance and a comprehensive data correction/repair approval workflow (s), data can be corrected in the source systems.
Legacy systems tend to be several years old and during those years, business rules/business conditions tend to change substantially. Businesses/divisions merge, are divested or purchased, leading to data quality issues in systems. It is prudent for any business to perform a thorough data quality assessment across mission-critical applications.
Data quality assessments can identify classification of data, anomalies in the data, similarities and patterns in data. eQube-DP has extensive capabilities to interrogate data and establish a quality assessment of that data. Furthermore, it has the abilities to create rules on the fly and apply them to the data to pinpoint anomalies in the data and/or to identify patterns in the data. Following figure shows examples of eQube-DP based analysis.
Such data quality assessment can lead to establishing comprehensive rules for data transformation during application integration/migration projects. As per eQ's proven IETLV methodology for application integration and migration, eQ recommends the use of eQube-DP up-front in the project.
In addition, eQube-DP allows for data correction and repair. If the customer desires to correct/repair the data in the source system (s), then utilizing eQube-MI, under stringent governance and a comprehensive data correction/repair approval workflow (s), data can be corrected in the source systems.
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Continuous data quality health monitoring
Continuous data quality health monitoring is a natural logical progression of data quality assessment, correction, and repair cycle.
For mission-critical applications, once the initial phase of data quality assessment is complete, it would be logical to establish an on-going process for data correction and repair cycle to ensure that the mission-critical data stays within the prescribed quality boundaries.
An eQube-DP based solution can be put in place with eQube-MI to assess data quality on an on-going basis and based on business rules data can corrected and repaired. eQube-MI has extensive abilities to establish work-flow (s) to ensure that no data is put back in the source system unless it has gone through the required stringent approved cycles. Upon approvals, eQube-MI is able to input corrected data honoring the underlying application's access control/security logic.
An eQube-DP based solution can be put in place with eQube-MI to assess data quality on an on-going basis and based on business rules data can corrected and repaired. eQube-MI has extensive abilities to establish work-flow (s) to ensure that no data is put back in the source system unless it has gone through the required stringent approved cycles. Upon approvals, eQube-MI is able to input corrected data honoring the underlying application's access control/security logic.
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