Data cleansing is a process by which a computer program detects, records, and corrects inconsistencies and errors within a collection of data. Image: freshidea/Adobe Stock Data is at the foundation of ...

The world runs on data. A hallmark of successful businesses is their ability to use quality facts and figures to their advantage. Unfortunately, data rarely arrives ready to use. Instead, businesses ...

Talend, the big data integration vendor that went public last July, announced its winter release today with new tools to help automate data preparation, a sticky problem for enterprise customers.

Brett Hansen is the CGO of Semarchy, a data software company that enables organizations to leverage their data to create business value. Companies in 2022 are implementing data-driven strategies to ...

Imagine this: you’ve just received a dataset for an urgent project. At first glance, it’s a mess—duplicate entries, missing values, inconsistent formats, and columns that don’t make sense. You know ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. Data is a critical ...

Data quality is paramount in data warehouses, but data quality practices are often overlooked during the development process. The true measure of an effective data warehouse is how much key business ...

The PowerCenter 7 data integration offering, to be available in early December, adds support for LDAP and the Common Warehouse Model (CWM). The new release will also better "cleanse" data in process, ...