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LEESBURG, VA – May 10, 2005 – The
Center for Data Quality, Inc. (C4DQ), a provider of
data quality management software and services, today
announced the newest version of its C4DQ Certify™
software. Using C4DQ Certify Version 2.0, organizations
can gauge the validity and integrity of their corporate
information against a standard benchmark, called the
Data Quality Certification Index™.
C4DQ Certify’s standards-based approach to
data quality management gives organizations assurance
that they are complying successfully with data-intensive
regulatory initiatives such as Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel
II and the federal Data Quality Act. Further, C4DQ
Certify allows organizations to confidently assess
the validity, structural integrity and business rule
integrity of business intelligence and operational
data.
C4DQ Certify provides a web-enabled framework for
creating and storing rules-based, metadata-driven
tests for data quality. In addition to the Data Quality
Certification Index, the software features detailed
and summary reports, a comprehensive Data Quality
Report Card, and a trend report showing changes in
the data’s condition over time. C4DQ Certify
can be applied to all types of data, across a multitude
of platforms. The software can be used during data
migration projects, regulatory audits or on an ongoing
basis as part of a pro-active data quality management
program.
“Numerous organizations are benefiting from
C4DQ Certify’s rigorous and objective approach
to data quality management,” said James A. Lair,
C4DQ’s president and chief executive officer.
“Our customers no longer regard data quality
improvement as an ad-hoc, time-consuming task. Now,
by pro-actively certifying their data, organizations
have a stronger sense of confidence in their balance
sheet, their compliance reporting and their daily
decision making.”
The Wyoming Department of Education is one of nine
state education agencies using C4DQ Certify to validate
data before it is submitted to the U.S. Department
of Education, in compliance with federal programs
such as No Child Left Behind. “C4DQ Certify
rapidly analyzes critical data, ensuring that it meets
with an established threshold before the data is aggregated
and submitted to federal regulators,” said Steve
King, director, Data Information and Technology Unit,
Wyoming Department of Education. “The software
has given us confidence in the quality of our data
and allowed us to formalize and standardize our entire
approach to data quality management.”
“The hidden costs of poor-quality data may
cost an organization up to 20 percent of its revenue,
but you can’t improve without trusted measures
of data quality,” said Thomas C. Redman, Ph.D.
(the “Data Doc”), data quality author,
lecturer and president of Navesink Consulting Group.
“Business rules are integral to the analytical
process and provide a measurement benchmark to help
organizations address the root causes of their data
quality problems.”
C4DQ Certify Version 2.0 is available immediately.
The Center for Data Quality, Inc. (C4DQ) was founded
in 2000 to help private sector businesses and government
agencies realize value and savings through data quality
management. The company provides C4DQ Certify software,
data quality analysis methodology, and professional
services to help organizations establish systematic
programs of data quality improvement and certification.
Based in Leesburg, Virginia, C4DQ’s three principals
have several decades of collective experience providing
data quality improvement programs and information
management services to Fortune 2000 and government
agencies worldwide. More information about C4DQ can
be found at www.c4dq.com.
Sarah Bassett
The Center for Data Quality, Inc.
617.899.6549
sbassett@c4dq.com
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