Data quality management (DQM) – long-term, company-wide efficiency

Companies are increasingly focusing on data quality as a major factor in corporate success and competitive performance, because what business process can function effectively nowadays without adequate data? The quality of this data is accordingly the precondition for efficient implementation of these processes. TIQ Solutions GmbH operates a holistic and cause-oriented approach to data quality management (DQM). Data are treated as products which go through the production process and are subjected to specific quality requirements to ensure that they are complete, relevant, up-to-date etc. These quality requirements have to be fulfilled across the entire life cycle of the data products by all those involved, i.e. those who supply them, those who administer them and those who use them.

The benefits of professional data quality management (DQM):

• reduced costs and risks
• optimisation of customer relationships
• improved basis for decision making
• compliance with statutory requirements

The influence of data quality is vital, not just in the IT field but beyond it in the entire processes, organisational structure and culture of the company. Important aspects of a successful approach are therefore shared operations between the IT section and the various individual corporate departments, with the productive integration of any initiatives which may already be in place. The aim is to encourage acceptance, to adapt to specific corporate conditions and to gradually extend the relevant structures and activities on the basis of initial successful results.