How can businesses improve their Data Quality Management process?

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Companies can enhance the quality of their data by putting certain measures into practice such as developing standards, designating data owners, validating data automatically, auditing, and monitoring crucial data. First, the companies need to assess the existing condition of data by doing data profiling. Such data profiling may disclose such problems as missing values, duplicates, formatting inconsistencies, among others. After understanding the existing data condition, the companies can apply cleansing techniques to make their data standardized, eliminate duplicates, solve the problem of missing values, and fix errors. Validations can also be carried out to ensure that new information meets certain quality standards. By carrying out continuous monitoring of data, companies will be able to spot new data problems before carrying out periodic data reviews. Companies can apply appropriate data quality tools to automate some of the tasks and monitor data using dashboards and alerts. Data quality consulting can be used when more expertise is needed to build a governance framework, better workflow and data quality strategy.