Analysis

Data profiling and analysis is the exercise of evaluating data within and across data sources to identify and highlight potential anomalies. The goal of data profiling is to expose possible data quality exceptions, areas where an organization/corporation’s data and business rules are in conflict, measuring the degree of compliance to known business rules, and tracking compliance over time.

ICON professionals work with your staff to provide critical detailed insight into your data.

ICON can help you achieve your data quality goals in many ways.

• Data quality maturity assessment and gap analysis to include:
• Analysis of your organization’s maturity capability for data quality improvement
• Gap analysis based on strategic objectives for data quality management
• Identify “data quality issues” requiring immediate attention
• Categorization and Prioritizing data quality issues
• Develop a customized data quality improvement process specific to your organization’s needs

Provide executive, business, and information technology system presentations on:

• Business cost of data quality protocol and Return On Investment (ROI)
• Perform a data definition and architectural assessment of your environment to measure metadata quality
• Perform data profiling and analysis to uncover the extent of data corruption and degradation
• Identify and quantify the cost of current data quality
• Implement customized processes to dramatically improve your organization’s data quality
• Define the authoritative data source for data integration / consolidation projects
• Provide assistance in the planning or performing the transition or upgrading of an  organization/corporation’s data platform(s).