Through Harte-Hanks` acquisition of Avellino, which weds the best-of-breed data profiling solution, Discovery, to the industry-leading Trillium Software System, a single source for full-lifecycle information asset management has been created.
This fusion brings about the strongest single force for increasing data value across systems, lines of business and geographic borders.
Companies that see knowledge as a competitive asset, integrating and making data available to organisational systems can provide the greatest return of any IT investment - data managers are fully aware that integration is not automatic. Survey after survey has highlighted that understanding source data and assuring data quality is the greatest burden - and expense - faced in successful integration projects.
Said Mark Cooper, director of MigrationWare, the sole distributor of Trillium Software and Avellino in SA: "The fusion of Trillium Software and Avellino answers this challenge definitively, creating a powerhouse for data profiling, cleansing, linking, enhancing and monitoring. From profiling data through complex transformations, beefy enhancements and vigilant monitoring, Trillium Software solutions do the heavy lifting for every phase of data management."
"Called Information Asset Management, it is the power to close the gap between the potential and actual value of information systems."
A clear advantage for data managers
For data managers, it has never been easier to reduce integration risks with data profiling or to augment existing data quality processes with profiling and analysis. "Discovery can reduce profiling costs by 90% over manual methods, automatically analysing data at its most granular level and revealing data anomalies, broken data rules, irreconcilable data, and much more," said Cooper.
For current users of the Trillium Software System, Discovery is a powerful complement that makes it easy to understand the condition of information before or after any data quality process:
* Analyse and report on data values, statistics, frequencies and ranges with Discovery.
* Standardise and correct data anomalies and omissions with the Trillium Software System.
* Align metadata with actual data constitution with Discovery.
* Find links, keys and rules within data with Discovery or create links and rules with the Trillium Software System.
* Enhance data with geographic, demographic, and operational information with the Trillium Software System.
* Create a centralised repository of data, metadata, statistics and documentation with Discovery.
* Continually monitor data conditions and optimise data quality processes with Discovery and the Trillium Software System.
"Discovery puts even more muscle behind the industry`s leading global data quality solution. The first step in fixing data problems is understanding what they are. Discovery`s powerful data profiling can help Trillium Software System users to more quickly identify, understand and address deeper data issues," said Cooper.
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