David Loshin is the president of Knowledge Integrity, Inc., a consulting and development company focusing on customized information management solutions including information quality solutions consulting, information quality training and business rules solutions. Loshin is the author of Enterprise Knowledge Management - The Data Quality Approach (Morgan Kaufmann, 2001) and Business Intelligence - The Savvy Manager's Guide and is a frequent speaker on maximizing the value of information. Loshin may be reached at loshin@knowledge-integrity.com.

CDI, and Names and Addresses
December 1, 2005

Meta Data, Cooperation and the Federal Government
November 1, 2005

Data Ownership and Collaboration
October 1, 2005

Knowledge Integrity
September 1, 2005

Master Data Standards and Data Exchange
August 1, 2005

New Names, Old Tricks? CDI, MDM, EII
July 1, 2005

Philosophy, Data Integration and Meta Data
June 1, 2005

Developing Information Quality Metrics
May 1, 2005 Developing KPIs for information quality is clearly a challenge. This article provides insight into how the data analytst can...

Profiling Dependencies
April 1, 2005

Abstracting Access, Part 2
March 1, 2005

Abstracting Access
February 1, 2005

Information Synergy
January 1, 2005

Naming Conventions and Semantic Consistency
December 1, 2004

Customer Data Integration, Linkage Precision and Match Accuracy
November 1, 2004 Automated tools are now being developed that can be used to adjust business rule settings, run the record matching...

Things, and What We Call Them
October 1, 2004

Information Insurance?
September 1, 2004

Conceptual Collaboration and Scalability
August 1, 2004

If a Standard Falls in the Forest...
July 1, 2004

The Business Value of Data Standards
June 1, 2004

More on Data Standards
May 1, 2004

Issues and Opportunities in Data Quality Management Coordination
April 1, 2004 The issues of cordinating data quality management are tough ones, and a data quality professional must be careful in...

Rules and Evasion
February 1, 2004

Data Standards and Data Models
January 1, 2004

Objects and Attributes
December 1, 2003

Enterprise Resource Planning, Trees and Blackjacks: Syntax vs. Semantics
November 1, 2003

MID – Missing In Data
October 1, 2003

Data Quality ROI in the Absence of Profits
September 1, 2003

Customer Care, Consistency and Policy Management
August 1, 2003

Two Sides to Data Decay
July 1, 2003

Assessment in the Golden Years
June 1, 2003

The Business Value of Information Flow Modeling
May 1, 2003

Information Flow Modeling
April 1, 2003

Who Owns Data?
March 1, 2003

Hidden Advantage
February 1, 2003

Archaeology and Intelligence
January 1, 2003

The Value of Parallelism, Part 2
December 20, 2002 Part 1 began a discussion on the importance of parallel processing for a successful BI program. Part 2 discusses the...

The Value of Parallelism, Part 1
December 13, 2002 Part 1 of this two-part series explores parallel processing and presents the business case for incorporating parallelism...

Taking Sides
November 1, 2002

What is Knowledge Integrity?
October 1, 2002

Business Intelligence and the Myth of Privacy
September 1, 2002 Junk mail and marketing calls are viewed as annoyances and invasions only because companies are not able to analyze that...

Intelligent Information Processing
July 1, 2001 Companies that recognize the strategic value in evolving into knowledge oranizations will see improved profits and...

The Cost of Poor Data Quality
June 29, 2001 A data quality improvement program is a "must have" for businesses wanting to save money and improve the quality of their...