by Blazent | Jun 17, 2016 | CMDB Data Quality, Data Quality
On my first day working for the UK Department of Energy, I met David, who was an Economist and an accomplished application programmer. I remember asking him what it was like to write such complex programs that could forecast energy demand of the country. He replied,...
by Blazent | Jun 7, 2016 | Blog, Data Management, Data Quality
There has been a lot of talk lately about the need to improve data quality for IT groups. But, is it always justified? I agree with the importance of good quality data, but I find the driving force behind it is not always clear to most people. When I...
by Blazent | May 20, 2016 | Blog, CMDB Data Quality, Data Quality
Ten years ago, I helped launch their CA CMDB product. We built our Configuration Management Database (CMDB) from the ground up to be a strictly ITIL process centric solution because we saw every other commercial offering at the time was flawed in some way. Some had no...
by Blazent | Apr 28, 2016 | Blog, CMDB Data Quality, Data Quality
Caring about IT data quality is not a new concept. The discipline of Data Quality Management (DQM) has evolved from the transformation (or data cleansing) element of the traditional database Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) process. To get a holistic view...
by Blazent | Apr 26, 2016 | Blog, CMDB Data Quality, Data Management, Data Purification, Data Quality
As a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) or IT Asset Management (ITAM) repository owner or sponsor, it’s only a matter of time until you meet The Data Quality Skeptic within your organization. The Data Quality Skeptic has the following...
by Blazent | Nov 5, 2015 | Blazent Big Data Engine, Data Management, Data Quality
We recently spent several days in Chicago at the Technology Business Management Conference, an event sponsored by Apptio that draws in close to a thousand C-level executives focused on the business aspects of IT management. Visibility was the key theme and Blazent...
