Talend Community Use Group Bristol: Preparing your business for mastering data management

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Talend community user group Bristol28th January 2016

Agenda1. DQ & MDM people vs tech2. Talend V63. Learning zone: workshop

introduction4. User group feedback

Mastering your data managementCustomer research shows that data quality and data management are things that everybody believes should happen. It’s just difficult to know who is going to take responsibility for data assets.Investing in a cultural shift - time and the right resourcesGetting executive buy in – what’s in it for the business?Don’t just dump it in the IT department

Making the business case for DQHow to use the tech as a facilitator• Solve basic problems• Quick wins• Clear reporting of DQ • Data as the equivalent of a real estate portfolio• Create an internal data quality agency• Examples of good practice Talend MDM award winners

Data quality as a KPIMake the process of improving DQ painless as possibleChoose data assets that are the easiest to control in-houseBoard reporting on DQCarrot and stick approachShow impact on sales of good (and bad) DQDQ becomes a consideration in all new projects across the business, including IT.

Changing the culture around dataHave a plan with a realistic time frameRegularly report on the targets that are being met and vice versaCreate ownership through data management governance teams. The gains: better supplier deals, SEO rewards and universal data asset used across the business teams.Use Talend to automate the data quality scoring to create a DQ award (e.g. bronze, sliver and gold) for KPI reporting. Have a minimum standard prior to entry.Provide examples and templates: what does good look like?

How to build a basic look-up table

Note: If you understand data joins, try clicking the spanner icon on the bottom data set to show the different types of joins you can use.

So what is this actually doing?We are taking two different data sources and by joining them together can produce one output with an enriched data set (Our main source only had the states ID’s but now we also have their full names too!).

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Thanks for listeningNext event 28th April so let Helen know your ideas for Talend topics to cover and volunteers to present >

Helen Woodcockcall: 07561162701email: helen@ketl.co.uk