Part 2 – Understanding and Monitoring the Data That Matters

Organizations have a vast quantity of data – and data volumes are growing all the time. A key part of a data quality initiative is understanding which data is worth your time and effort and provides the greatest benefit. To understand this, data quality professionals need to start with all the different stakeholders connected to the data and establish what they all need.

Once this is understood, stakeholders can communicate their business strategy and how it links to data and surface the challenges that data issues cause them. Data quality rules can thus be derived so that bad data can finally be identified.

Once you have completed this part of the book, you will understand how to optimize engagement with stakeholders so that the right rules are identified, and a suite of data quality reports accurately reflects the data quality position and trends over time.

This part comprises the following chapters...