Global leader in data quality and profiling solutions, Trillium Software, a division of Harte-Hanks and distributed in SA by MigrationWare, has expanded its market focus to provide data quality management and profiling for a broad range of non-name and address-related business data with the release of the Trillium Software Business Data Parser (BDP).
A component of the Trillium Software System that helps companies derive maximum value from virtually any type of business information, BDP identifies, verifies and standardises the components of free-form text, commonly referred to as business data or generic data. Proven process of word, pattern and phrase recognition within the BDP can be used to standardise, enhance and link any type of business data.
"With BDP IT managers can identify data inconsistencies, standardise records, and correct data problems for a broad range of business data," said Mark Cooper, managing director of MigrationWare.
"For example, these data may include manufactured parts, chemical components, financial metrics and inventory that need to be stored and manipulated in accurate, up-to-date formats for efficient use in enterprise applications, data warehouse environments, supply chain and inventory management systems or with RFID [radio frequency identification] technologies."
"Implementing the Trillium Software System alleviated any fears we had about the integrity of our data and allows us to truly understand our product landscape to anticipate problems before they manifest themselves," said Kevin Carrick, project director, SAP services at Bombardier, a transportation systems manufacturer that uses the Trillium Software Business Data Parser to standardise and cleanse data describing more than 2.8 million inventory parts at its plants throughout the world.
Bombardier represents a growing number of multinational companies that are applying data quality management across their entire enterprise to give knowledge workers accurate and timely business data required to perform strategic analyses, inventory management, procurement and a host of additional corporate operations.
"Built on the same technology as the Trillium Software Customer Data Parser, the BDP enables users to customise how the Trillium Software System identifies business data as it is designed to allow users to define and implement company and industry-specific business rules - such as standardising all dimensions in metric, regardless of how they were stored originally - to automate often in real-time an otherwise painstaking process of linking and correcting data as they are integrated from disparate databases," continued Cooper.
Ted Friedman, principal analyst for Gartner, commented: "Maintaining the highest levels of data quality possible is fundamental to the success of data warehouses and their associated enterprise-wide applications. Since the majority of that data is non-name and address data, and includes data that are not customer-related at all, it`s critical for companies to broaden the focus of their data quality initiatives to include elements beyond the traditional customer data domain."
"Bombardier represents a new breed of Trillium Software customers that today must continually assess and improve the quality of their business data while efficiently operating within existing environments, such as the SAP Business Warehouse," said Cooper. "Trillium Software is now leading the continued evolution of the data quality market by helping customers understand all of their data, recognising that the data constituents that must adhere to quality standards go far beyond names and addresses."
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