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Insight through data quality
Five Steps to Improve Business Insight Through Data Quality Organizations generate phenomenal amounts of data every day. To avoid being inundated and to leverage the full potential of what enters their business continuously, organizations must have a clear...
Seven Characteristics That Define Quality Data
While many organizations boast of having good data or improving the quality of their data, the real challenge is defining what those qualities represent. What some consider good quality others might view as poor. Judging the quality of data requires an examination of...
Top 5 IoT applications for IT
An article in Forbes inspired this top 5 list. The article reported on Gartner predictions for Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies for 2017 and 2018. The five that intersect IT and are extensions of data sources with which Blazent interacts are: IoT Security–...
The difference between Data Quality and Data Integrity
Data Quality and Data Integrity Are Not the Same The difference between data quality and integrity is important to understand if you want to improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness of your organization, since both are highly dependent on the data leveraged...
Top 5 CMDB Asset Types
A Configuration Management Database (CMDB) is a critical component of any IT organization. It provides a centralized data source to support multiple management functions. These functions include Service, Asset, Operations and Datacenter management. The data records in...
Implications of Poor Data Quality in Healthcare
Organizations are constantly challenged to maintain the right level of data quality. This is especially true in a risk-averse industry such as healthcare, where decisions could literally mean the difference between life and death. In addition, ensuring the privacy of...
Top 5 Reasons Why CMDB Initiatives Fail
Configuration Management Database (CMDB) initiatives are complex and require engagement from multiple IT disciplines. A successful CMDB provides an authoritative source of asset and dependency information for hardware and software to support IT operations, service,...
The interacting lifecycles: Service, Asset, and Technology Products
We have previously discussed the Asset lifecycle and its architecture. However, Asset is only one of four IT lifecycles: Application services Infrastructure services Assets Technology products An Application Service is a business or market-facing...
Top 5 Asset Management Best Practices
This Top 5 list is inspired by a BMC blog written by Cris Scruggs. Blazent typically interacts with IT Asset Management (ITAM) professionals in a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) data quality context. This blog will expand on the first 5 of Cris’s list from...
The Dimensions of Data Quality: Currency and Consistency
4th of a 4-part series Previous posts have provided an overview of data quality drivers and their associated dimensions. To recap, the dimensions covered include: Integrity Accuracy Completeness Duplication Currency Consistency This post presents...
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