Data Quality for Performance Management

Proceed with confidence in your decisions

You need quality data to drive your answers to the basic questions of performance management: How we are doing? Why? And, What should we be doing?
The data quality issue is more important now than ever:

  • BI and performance management deployments are expanding to reach more users with greater business impact. A broad range of transactional, financial and operational data drives your critical business decisions. You need the best possible data.
  • With information the cornerstone of good decisions, business and IT must understand the issues with your data, and share responsibility for how to correct them.
  • Compliance legislation worldwide mandates business (as opposed to IT alone) to take ownership and ensure the quality of data reported and acted upon.

Resolving data quality issues as part of your performance management system can:

  • Improve the value and adoption rate of performance information.
  • Ensure information and decisions meet increased scrutiny around the numbers.
  • Reduce project risk and delay from poor data quality to improve time to results.

Recognizing the importance data quality for performance management, and that you can apply performance principles to managing the quality of your data, IBM, offers services and integrated solutions with IBM, and partners with Informatica and other data quality solution providers.


Data quality offerings from IBM Cognos software

IBM Cognos Data Quality Rapid Assessment Service
This five-day services engagement focuses on helping you understand data quality issues that may affect your performance management project goals. This service:

  • Provides a preliminary data quality assessment.
  • Lets you see the data quality issues that need to be addressed.
  • Gets you started with your ongoing data quality strategy.
  • Helps you reduce project risk from poor data quality.
  • Educates business leads on data quality and shows them how to improve it.

Learn more about : IBM Cognos Data Quality Rapid Assessment Service


IBM® WebSphere® Information Analyzer helps you understand the structure, content and quality of your data sources.
Gain a true understanding of your data sources. Mitigate your risk by uncovering missing, inaccurate and inconsistent data early in your data integration project lifecycle.

  • Deep Profiling Capabilities to provide a comprehensive understanding of data
  • Revolutionary User Interface to promote understanding of information and improve usability and productivity
  • Shared Metadata Foundation to integrate the modules across IBM Information Server and IBM Information Server for System z in support of the enterprise
  • Native parallel Execution for enterprise scalability

Learn more about : IBM WebSphere Information Analyzer


IBM Information Server WebSphere QualityStage
IBM Information Server WebSphere QualityStage modules are designed to help you maintain a competitive edge with unmatched data quality in your worldwide customer and business partner address information:

  • Industry-leading worldwide and exclusive regional address verification and enrichment modules provide address cleansing to the city and street level (data precision may vary by locale) — supporting over 240 countries.
  • Address certification, including the United States Postal Service (USPS) Coding Accuracy Support Systems (CASS™), the Australia Post Delivery Point Identifiers (DPID), and the Canada Post Search Engine Results Page (SERP), supports verification and enrichment of addresses.
  • Geospatial information helps you pinpoint locations and establish spatial relationships for trend analysis, targeted marketing, improved service delivery, and enhancement of location information.
  • Certified data quality integration for the SAP Business Address Services DES (Duplicate Check, Error-Tolerant Search) provides extensible search and match capabilities to SAP customers. This interface ensures seamless support for SAP R/3, mySAP, and SAP ECC (ERP Central Component) customers.

Learn more about: IBM Information Server WebSphere QualityStage