SaaS momentum in economic down times

Jeff Kelly from SearchDataManagerment.com writes about the momentum of SaaS based data quality and integration tools. With quotes from a survey done by research firm Gartner he writes about how “the on demand model is beginning to gain foothold in the industry”.

A few remarkable facts from the Gartner survey:

• 28% of companies have deployed SaaS-based data integration tools
• 24% have SaaS-based data quality tools
• Most companies use a mix of on-premise, outsourced and SaaS-based technology
• SaaS-based software, at this point, often trails its on-premise counterparts
• Gartner advice: “Plan SaaS deployment enterprise-wide….to guard against siloed investments”

Data quality processes: The wrong guy

As a recent Human Inference survey shows, data quality processes appear to be the biggest challenge for organizations.  Although this may seem an obvious survey result for many, the real question here of is: What are data quality processes?

Many of you will probably start thinking along the lines of data ownership, database access and hierarchy. But data quality processes are far more essential.  First of all, you have to know who you are dealing with.The following video is self-explaining: