Data Profiling:
Do you know how good your data is - really?
What you don't know about your data can hurt your business. A lot.
Time after time, important initiatives - such as ERP and CRM implementations, or mergers, acquisitions and data migrations - are undermined by one common flaw: incomplete, misfielded, corrupted and otherwise weak data sets. Unfortunately, bad data is a silent killer. According to a recent report by The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI), more than 80% of surveyed business managers believe their business data is just fine. Yet half of their own technical people recognize that it's in worse shape than their executives realize.
Discover the profiling tools meant to do business
There are a number of tools available that allow technically skilled people to analyze data. But Trillium Software goes several steps further, designing tools that empower business people to take more effective action on the data underlying inventory management, supplier relations, billing and finances, customer relations, sales and marketing, and more. Trillium Software is built for:
Automated "bottom-up" data analysis: Most profiling tools rely on complex SQL queries that must be run by experienced technical staff. Worse, the resulting analyses are limited by the questions themselves. What's left unasked remains undiscovered. Trillium Software tools, by contrast, automatically looks across every field and value to uncover all the underlying issues - including the surprising problems you would not anticipate.
Business collaboration: You control the process through user-friendly interfaces anyone can manage, at any level of technical skill. That way, business and technology professionals can sit at the same table and openly discuss data issues together. Technical experts now have an easy way of simplifying complex data issues. More importantly, business professionals can bring their concerns—what the data means and how it's actually used—into the discussion.
Immediate cleansing and repair: There's no need for delay. You can initiate cleansing and standardization directly from our profiling application. For added safety and security, cleansed data does not overwrite source data, but is placed in appended fields that can be shared instantly with other users and applications.
Service Oriented Architectures: Many large enterprises are shifting to the greater flexibility and business-responsiveness of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). Trillium Software profiling tools help you prepare for the SOA migration by uncovering and fixing data problems before they become an obstacle in your progress.
Learn more about real profiling power
Data Discovery: See the difference an automated data discovery tool can make for your business.
Data Monitoring : Get real-time insight into data quality, quickly and easily.
Data Governance: Maintain constant control of your data as your business grows, changes and evolves.
Take the next step toward greater control of your data
Download our free white paper, Improving Data Migration with Automated Data Profiling, or talk to a Trillium Software data profiling expert today.
1Phillip Russom, Taking Data Quality to the Enterprise Through Data Governance, TDWI Report Series, March 2006, p. 3