Advisory · Organisation · Development
Data quality & master data management
1. Brief service summary
Organize data quality and shared master data according to business uses. Specify criteria, responsibilities and discrepancy handling without equating removal of apparent duplicates, factual accuracy and authorization to merge records.
2. Your needs
Client, product or other reference files contain inconsistencies disrupting monitoring and exchanges. Local corrections recur without common rules. You wish to understand causes, define reference data and improve it without losing history or mixing distinct entities.
3. Objectives of the engagement
Define expected quality per use and validation owners. Distinguish demonstrated error, missing values and legitimate divergence. Prepare checking, correction and matching rules, with human decisions for ambiguity and traceability of proposed changes.
4. Indicative scope
Work may cover definitions, completeness, consistency and uniqueness criteria, creation and updating processes. Authoritative sources are identified by domain. Possible matches are documented with confidence levels; similar names or incomplete identifiers do not confirm entity identity.
5. Possible delivery arrangements
Business workshops and authorized samples may prepare improvement plans. Proposed checks differ from approved corrections. Real data interventions need separate authorization, recovery rules and protections; external enrichment or cross-organization matching is never automatic.
6. Possible deliverables
As agreed: a master data dictionary, quality grid, anomaly register and proposed handling rules. Plans may specify priorities, owners and reviews. Deliverables do not constitute completed corrections, accuracy certification or authorization to delete, merge or disclose information.
7. Conditions and limitations
Governance falls under 19.03; integration under 19.04. This service prepares quality and master data. No accuracy level or exhaustive duplicate removal is guaranteed. Rights, sources and mandates require confirmation. Organizations' needs remain isolated; advice does not amend PRO’ADVISORY AUT-08 rules.