I know where your house lives….
In an article I recently read, I came across a reference to a website called ‘We KnowYourHouse.com”. This website is billed as a social networking privacy experiment that has been designed to show what...
View ArticleInternational data quality
When I read Henrik Liliendahl Sørensen’s blog on cross border data quality, I made a mental note to write a follow-up blog, because his theme closely borders on a presentaion I am preparing for the...
View ArticleData Value?
When I was attending the ECCMA Data Quality Solution Summit in October 2012, I got in an interesting discussion on the quality of a specific customer data item. The actual point of the discussion was...
View ArticleRue sans nom – address certification in France
Despite the increasing use of email in the last decade in contacts between organizations and their relations; organizations still need to manage a huge amount of postal en geographical addresses. In...
View ArticleShort question, complex answer: Who is who and what is what in your database?
Any organization that deals with customer, prospect, supplier, distributor, product and service information, uses all kinds of data in their day-to-day business processes. Identification of a...
View ArticleCleaning Danish customer data with the CVR registry and DataCleaner, part 1 of 3
Recently the Danish government has initiated a strategy to open up and make freely available basic public master data on a wide range of areas such as company registrations (CVR), social security...
View ArticleCleaning Danish customer data with the CVR registry and DataCleaner, part 2 of 3
In my previous blog post we learned that the Danish government has initiated a progressive strategy to make basic public data freely available. Now let’s see how we can use this data to cleanse our...
View ArticleCleaning Danish customer data with the CVR registry and DataCleaner, part 3 of 3
In my previous two blogs I’ve dealt with the background of the Danish CVR registry being made available to everyone (and more public registries to come) as well as how to do the initial pre-processing...
View ArticleHello, I X U, Won’t you tell me your name?
This is a guest post by Peter Hesselink of SDL Content Management Technologies You want to address visitors in a proper way. Preferably by calling them by their name, showing that you know them, make...
View ArticlePeople are strange(rs)
While I was reading Peter Hesselinks’s blog post, I felt an immediate urge to listen to The Doors, without a doubt one of the most influential rock bands of the last century. Listening to my iPod I...
View ArticlePost codes: new tool or old school?
For a long time the Irish postal services were my favourite kind: they didn’t have post codes in Ireland because “we don’t need them: our sorting machines are so sophisticated that we can sort the mail...
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