Using “Business-Ready” Trusted Data for Better Decision Making

Your enterprise has made investments in systems, whether in CRM, supply chain management (SCM), ERP, data warehouses or other applications. Your company depends on these systems and the automation they provide to run your business. But what about the information that lives outside of these systems, and in many cases outside of your firewall? Data contained in other databases, spreadsheets and computer-based files—coupled with external data—are used by customers and employees but combining these data sources with internal systems can generate trust issues with the data. They can’t be depended on for accuracy or purpose because they haven’t been treated with the same rigor that’s been applied to the data in your systems of record. ibi and ASG Technologies have developed a process to enable trust in previously unvetted data along with the automation to implement that process. You need to measure the quality of the data for your key business metrics. These data quality measures can have multiple dimensions, such as completeness, accuracy, consistency, etc. These measures are documented in ASG Data Intelligence and the technical measurement is performed weekly, monthly, etc. in OmniGen with the results passed back to ASG to provide a data quality dashboard so you can see how the quality of these key business metrics are trending. Data lineage is also key. Data lineage enables users to see where a field came from, and with our partnership with ASG you can easily see that lineage in your dashboards and reports making your decisions more informed based on data your trust.