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[Post from Infoglide] Data Finds Data in Real-Time Entity Resolution

“Jeff Jonas of IBM recently quoted from a chapter called “Data Finds Data”  that he co-wrote for a book entitled Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions, and I was impressed by how well this passage describes the effective use of entity resolution software (e.g., IRE 2.2)…”

IT-Director.com: GRC is not enough

[Philip Howard]”If you think about these different forms of risk, they can mostly be managed within existing GRC frameworks: business risk, data and IT governance and compliance cover five of these seven types of risk. But they don’t cover fraud or cyber attacks or similar security issues.”

SunSentinel.com: Roofer ducked $400,000 in worker’s comp premiums

“Investigators with the state’s Division of Insurance Fraud said Robert McDonald, owner of Gulfstream Roofing Inc., funneled $3 million in payroll through several fake companies between 2002 and 2006, claiming the money was being paid to insured subcontractors instead of his own workers.”

BNET Healthcare: What Can US Learn From European Health IT Experience?

“The three countries also use universal patient identification numbers in health care. This is much easier to do in Europe than it is in the U.S., where the mistrust of government is so high that the issue of having a single patient identifier number is no longer even under discussion. There’s also the small matter of our low EHR adoption rate, which is less than 20 percent for physicians and lower for hospitals. By contrast, most physicians in the three European countries are using some kind of EHR.”

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By Robert Barker, Infoglide Senior VP & Chief Marketing Officer

What’s it going to take to move the data quality space forward in the future? That’s the question recently addressed by Ted Friedman of Gartner as reported in an article in destinationCRM.com. He suggests that the real answer may be messaging.

“Vendors have done a reasonably poor job in that they could get better at articulating the true business value [of data quality solutions],” he says. The Gartner analyst notes that vendors tend to talk about functionality in terms of technological advances, rather than conveying how that technology actually supports the business infrastructure. Friedman also notes that, in general, vendors could get better at articulating how tools support initiatives such as information governance and regulatory compliance — two notable industry trends.

Ted is right that to call out vendors to improve our messaging. At Identity Resolution Daily, we get down into technical details fairly often. For example, our bloggers have talked about data matching, its relationship to identity resolution, critical requirements for identity resolution, and we’ve had a series on data quality. Professor John Talburt of UALR’s Center for Advanced Research in Entity Resolution and Information Quality (ERIQ) is a regular contributor who talks about technical definitions and issues surrounding these topic areas.

That’s not to say that business issues around entity resolution and information quality have been ignored. Real world problems like lottery retailer fraud have been a frequent topic, as has organized retail crime. Another business problem we’ve talked about is employers trying to cheat workers compensation laws, and we’ve actually discussed regulatory compliance (OK, so we did get a bit technical on that one).

A huge issue related to information governance is preserving the rights of individual privacy. Because of our involvement in TSA’s Secure Flight program, we’ve written about this issue repeatedly since Identity Resolution was created. A recent post captures the essence of the issue.

So at best, I’d have to say we get a C+ or a B- on our messaging. With our upcoming release of IRE 2.2, we’ll make every effort to respond to Ted’s constructive criticism of the data quality space.

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By the Infoglide Team

Los Angeles Times: L.A. County reserve deputy is accused of fraud at his security firm

“Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley, said the men created a shell company, International Armored Solutions Inc., to hide the true number of employees at the security firm to avoid paying higher workers’ compensation insurance premiums to the State Compensation Insurance Fund.”

ArticleRooms.com: The Benefits of Master Data Management

“Next, Master Data Management can also help prevent fraud. With the passing of Sarbanes-Oxley which holds executives of public companies accountable for their financial statement, these executives have now placed pressure on the organization to get things right.”

Greene County Daily World: Looking back: Area schools safer because of Columbine shooting incident

“Fusion centers are central locations where local, state and federal officials work to receive, integrate and analyze intelligence. The ultimate goal of a fusion center is to provide a mechanism where law enforcement, public safety, and private partners can come together with a common purpose and improve the ability to safeguard our homeland and prevent criminal activity.”

SmartDataCollective: Enterprise Data World 2009

[Jim Harris] “Enterprise Data World is the business world’s most comprehensive vendor-neutral educational event about data and information management.  This year’s program was bigger than ever before, with more sessions, more case studies, and more can’t-miss content.”

All About B2B: PAXLST and CUSRES – How EDI keeps our planes safe from Terrorists

“Through government ownership, the risk of security breaches is minimized and a higher level of consistency can be enforced across airlines.  In the first phase of the program, TSA will perform screening of only US domestic flights.  In future versions of the program, monitoring will expand to include international flights as well.”

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