By Jonathan Crow

A little while back Informatica announced that they were embedding Intalio into PowerCenter, their data quality and integration platform. The topic of BPM and SOA and data quality and integration has beed widely discussed, not only at our user conference, but by Ash Parikh of Informatica on his blog, also here, here, and here, not to mention the vendors trying to cobble together solutions.

Especially in BPM projects content is king. We all know bad data in = bad data out. But if you turbo charge the process with BPM you get bad data out squared. Other solutions tend to minimize the data integration complexity or rely on application integration to handle the data. Enterprise companies require flexibility in their data integration projects. With a mixture of batch and real-time data migration applications can easily get out of synch. Duplication of data at the minimum can cause a significant drop in productivity. At the more problematic end of the spectrum it can cause, for example, billing issues that may cost the company (previously) loyal customers.

What data problems do you have? I would be interested in hearing your stories about how bad data has created headaches for your company.

August 15th, 2008