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People are strange(rs)
Donnerstag, 7. März 2013
While I was reading Peter Hesselinks’s blog post, I felt an immediate urge to listen to The Doors, without a doubt one of the most influential rock bands of the last century. Listening to my iPod I came across another fitting “lyrics analogy”, which I found quite suitable as a title for this post…. The concept [...]
Hello, I X U, Won’t you tell me your name?
Mittwoch, 6. März 2013
This is a guest post by Peter Hesselink of SDL Content Management Technologies You want to address visitors in a proper way. Preferably by calling them by their name, showing that you know them, make them feel welcome, indicate you want to have a dialogue with them. Hello, I welcome you, won’t you tell me [...]
Cleaning Danish customer data with the CVR registry and DataCleaner, part 3 of 3
Mittwoch, 23. Januar 2013
In my previous two blogs I’ve dealt with the background of the Danish CVR registry being made available to everyone (and more public registries to come) as well as how to do the initial pre-processing steps with DataCleaner to fetch CVR data about your customers. We ended up with a CSV file from the CVR [...]
Cleaning Danish customer data with the CVR registry and DataCleaner, part 2 of 3
Dienstag, 15. Januar 2013
In my previous blog post we learned that the Danish government has initiated a progressive strategy to make basic public data freely available. Now let’s see how we can use this data to cleanse our data. I will be using DataCleaner to pre- and post-process data needed for the cleansing operation. We’ll assume you have [...]
Cleaning Danish customer data with the CVR registry and DataCleaner, part 1 of 3
Mittwoch, 9. Januar 2013
Recently the Danish government has initiated a strategy to open up and make freely available basic public master data on a wide range of areas such as company registrations (CVR), social security (CPR), real estate, employment, environment and more. The initiative’s name is “Good basic data for everyone – a driver for growth and [...]
Short question, complex answer: Who is who and what is what in your database?
Donnerstag, 3. Januar 2013
Any organization that deals with customer, prospect, supplier, distributor, product and service information, uses all kinds of data in their day-to-day business processes. Identification of a customer or a product within an automated system, using a specific id-number, the name or any other identifying feature, is a key issue in these processes. Furthermore, it [...]
Rue sans nom – address certification in France
Montag, 5. November 2012
Despite the increasing use of email in the last decade in contacts between organizations and their relations; organizations still need to manage a huge amount of postal en geographical addresses. In an era where costs reducing and compliance policies are daily issues it becomes essential for bulk mailers to have their relationship data as clean [...]
Data Value?
Montag, 29. Oktober 2012
When I was attending the ECCMA Data Quality Solution Summit in October 2012, I got in an interesting discussion on the quality of a specific customer data item. The actual point of the discussion was whether an address has quality when you are not aware of what the intended use and value of that particular [...]
International data quality
Dienstag, 25. September 2012
When I read Henrik Liliendahl Sørensen’s blog on cross border data quality, I made a mental note to write a follow-up blog, because his theme closely borders on a presentaion I am preparing for the 2012 ECCMA Data Quality Summit in Ocober. As it happened, the organization committee of the summit asked me to write an article [...]
I know where your house lives….
Mittwoch, 29. August 2012
In an article I recently read, I came across a reference to a website called ‘We KnowYourHouse.com”. This website is billed as a social networking privacy experiment that has been designed to show what could happen when you tweet about being at home with locations enabled, particularly from a mobile device. On the homepage there is statement that [...]