Data Quality Summit '07 - a big success!
On October 11th, over 250 people gathered in Maastricht to attend Human Inference's international conference 'Organizing for Data Quality'.
The keynote presentations from Andreas Bitterer (Gartner) and Wim Helmer (Dun & Bradstreet) were very well received. During 9 breakout sessions, the audience was enlightened on the challenges and rewards of a proper organization of their data governance processes. Prof. Ed Peelen from Nyenrode University closed the day with an excellent summary of the entire program.
The attendees came from 7 different countries and were overall very positive on the organization and agenda of the event. This was illustrated by the fact that 68% of the attendees answered 'yes' and 29% 'maybe' on the question 'Will you visit Data Quality Summit in 2008?'
Human Inference has already started preparations to organize an even better and bigger conference next year. If you would like to review the 2007 agenda and presentations, please take a look at www.dataqualitysummit.com. A short video impression is also available.
Strategic Data quality
Touring Verzekeringen sets out to play a very close game in the area of offering products and services tailored to specific situations. In achieving this, it is of great importance to have accurate customer details available. This entails not only names and addresses, but also details such as age and family composition. With 30% inaccurate data, this strategy was built on sandy ground. Therefore data quality became a top priority for Touring Verzekeringen.
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Organizing data quality
According to the Data Governance Institute (www.datagovernance.com), the interaction between rules, decision rights, and accountabilities of people and information systems as they perform information-related processes, is the core of data governance.
Data Governance sounds boring. However, it is absolutely not boring if used in the right way, because it will definitely bring you direct benefits in your business results.
Click here to download the white paper on Data Governance.
Swiss Life
The Swiss Life Group is one of Europe's leading providers of pension and life insurance products. It is active in Switzerland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein. Multinational companies are serviced with tailor-made solutions by a network of partners in over 60 countries. The aim of Swiss Life is and remains to be number one in customer satisfaction and to continuously improve the level of service. Theo van der Steen, Senior Project Manager at Swiss Life, explains in this customer case how a multiplicity of information systems regarding relationship data has now been consolidated into one in a highly flexible Service Oriented Architecture. 'Creating an integrated customer view by using Human Inference's Customer Data Integration solutions makes it possible to achieve the aims of Swiss Life regarding customer satisfaction.'
Click here to download the Customer Case of Swiss Life.
My name, my language, my internet
On October 18th 2007, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has started a pilot in which non-Latin script domain names are used. A revolutionary change on the internet: As the Internet continues to grow; many new users are interested in being able to write domain names using their local languages and scripts. Users around the globe will now be able to access pages with the domain name example.test in 11 test languages/scripts '" Arabic, Persian, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Russian, Hindi, Greek, Korean, Yiddish, Japanese and Tamil.
One challenge in implementing multilingualism on the Internet is the preparation of content in the numerous languages, alphabets, scripts, and character sets that must be accommodated. There is also a need to deal with these same factors in the development of keyword, search, and directory systems. Therefore, comparing URL's from different writing systems will become a major issue in the near future.
With the use of Unicode technologies we can now store, represent and exchange all kind of strings in different writing sets, but are we also capable to search, match and identify similar strings? What you could easily verify with your own eyes in the past becomes now an extended Sudoku puzzle for your brains.
Please click here to read more about this international initiative.
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