Data Quality Emerges from Covid-19

In respect of the Covid crisis, in a report published in January 2021, The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee found poor data management to have hampered the government’s Covid19 pandemic response, especially during the first wave of the pandemic. Data flows are getting better but, even so, the NHS was found, in the report, not to have the centralized data flows required.

The Office for National Statistics has become more prominent in public life during the crisis, and in December 2020 it published a government data quality framework, providing five principles for data quality management in government.

Whether considering the public or private sectors, a proactive approach to data quality is advisable, otherwise, the IT department and data professionals will find themselves fire-fighting. In this case study, we find trade show organizer Informa Markets turning to Collibra software to get ahead of the game in terms of the quality of its customer data. It was prompted to do so by a need to enhance its data quality efforts as it absorbed a major acquisition.

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