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8000 is the international standards for data quality.
The
purpose of ISO 8000 is to make it easier to tell the difference
between those companies and software application that can
deliver what ISO 8000 defines as quality data and those that
cannot. The strength and power in ISO 8000 lies in the fact
that the opinion of what is, and what is not, quality data,
is based on international agreement. Industry experts from
around the world have agreed that there are characteristics
of data that can be used to define and measure its quality
and these are described in ISO 8000.
The
practical purpose of a standard or a specification is to provide
a form of commercial shorthand. Claiming that something conforms
to a standard is the same as claiming that something conforms
to the clauses in the standard. For example when you ask how
many USB ports a computer has, you are asking how many ports
on the computer conform to the USB specification. In the same
way, the purpose of ISO 8000 is to allow users to ask for
ISO 8000 quality data and to be able to test if the data they
received conforms to ISO 8000, if it does conform then it
would be ISO 8000 quality data and if not, well let's just
say "it would not be ISO 8000 quality data".
The
roots of ISO 8000 are grounded in cataloging, the process
of describing an item by its characteristics as opposed to
its identifiers. Characteristic based descriptions make it
possible to understand why things are the same or why they
are different and if so to what degree are they the same or
different. This is very important in all aspects of commercial
and government activity and this capability depends on the
quality of the data.
ISO
8000 comes in separate parts the 100 series deals with Master
Data; this is the data that describes individuals, organizations,
locations, good and services. The 100 series describes the
three fundamental characteristics of quality as they are applied
to data. The first is that there must be a reference to a
syntax, basically the format of the data. The second is that
the metadata, the data labels, must be explicitly defined,
no more cryptic data labels. The final requirement is that
the data must meet requirements. This may sound obvious but
many forget that the definition of "quality" is meets requirements.
For data to be considered quality data it must meet the requirements
for data. This is really where the ECCMA data requirements
registry (eDRR) comes into play. When someone sends you data
and claims it is "quality data" it must be readable (syntax)
and the data must be correctly labeled (eOTD) but it must
also meet requirements and it is these requirements that are
registered in the eDRR.
Why you should get ECCMA to
certify you as an ISO 8000 Master Data Quality Manager (MDQM)?
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So you will be recognized as an authority on ISO 8000
master data quality. |
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So you can speak with authority on how to use ISO 8000
to measure and solve data quality problems. |
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3. |
Your
customers are looking for certified ISO 8000 Master Data
Quality Managers to manage their data cleansing projects. |
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4. |
You
need to differentiate yourself from your competitors –
you know what it takes to create and maintain ISO 8000
quality master data. |
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Your
customers are looking for trading partners who know how
to deliver ISO 8000 quality master data and quality descriptions
of their goods and services. |
Data
and information quality are now widely recognized problems
in companies large and small from manufacturing and processing
through finance and health care. Incomplete or duplicate records,
poor quality descriptions and inaccurate information cause
inefficient allocation and use of resources and are a drag
on operations and profitability adding up to 20% to direct
and indirect costs alike. Poor quality data is a barrier to
effective marketing and the leading cause of transparency
issues that drive up the cost of regulatory compliance.
Quality
data is not a luxury it is an operational, regulatory and
statutory requirement
The
ECCMA ISO 8000-110:2009 certification program will certifies
that you understand how to use ISO 8000 in measuring data
quality as well as in requesting and responding to requests
for quality master data. |
