Is your enterprise data an asset or a liability? In order to gain a better perspective, many companies are looking to data quality assessments (data profiling) as a way to evaluate their current data.

A data quality assessment involves inspecting data, measuring the defects, analyzing the cause and impact of those defects, and then reporting the results of the analysis to key stakeholders. With a data quality assessment, businesses can address the root cause of each individual data defect.

Credera’s options range from a one-time manual or automated update of the source system data to implementing an enterprise data quality tool that can be used to thoroughly cleanse your data. Still, merely cleansing the existing data is not enough. You also need the data stewardship processes and ownership in place to ensure that data remains clean going forward.