Data management

Good management use data management. Data management is a cyclical, ongoing process that eliminates waste and enables the smooth and efficient operation of your business. Good data underpins every business activity from human resources to billing and fulfilment.

Managing the removal or update of duplicate addresses, expired telephone numbers and new billing addresses and you eliminate waste and improve the returns you generate from your IT investments. A coherent and comprehensive data management strategy improves your targeting, selling and reporting. It makes your business better.

QGate's dedicated Data Services team provides specialist consultancy on data deduplication, migration and integration. They can also implement world class business intelligence and analysis solutions that help you make better decisions. Your business needs ongoing data management to make the most of one of its most valuable resources: its data.

Data management solutions enable the iterative management of your data. They enable business plan objectives. The diagram below shows the processes involved in an iterative data management solution. Critical factors - ownership, acquisition and cleaning - all enable the achievement of strategic objectives.

Batch Imports

Batch data processing enables high speed data migration and reformatting. Inaport reduces infrastructure costs by integrating data silos. Paribus integrates with Inaport to perform data matching and de-duplication when you're migrating data into and out of a database.

Data Insert

PowerEntry enables the creation of high quality records from a variety of sources and means users can check for duplicates before adding data. You can integrate PowerEntry and QGate's sophisticated matching technology, intelliSearch, with third party applications so you can run data management processes across disparate third party applications, and validate account and contact details irrespective of the source of that data.

Data Cleansing

Paribus enables data matching and deduplication to eliminate waste and increase productivity. Auditing and cleaning data, to improve data quality, are key elements in a strategy for data management. Use Paribus alongside address data files to verify that you have the latest certified postal information and maintain highly accurate address data.

QGate's Data Services team have also devised address data clean up services which eliminates out of date or duplicate address data. This can be used with Paribus to maintain the highest standards of data quality.

Monitoring

Business alerts and monitoring enables the automation of data update and usage processes so organisations can manage by exception and respond to dynamic and ever-changing data that drives the business. Data management with Orbis TaskCentre can be heavily automated to eliminate time consuming and mundane administrative tasks.

Business intelligence, reporting and analysis 

Bring together all your data to give you the best available business intelligence on your past, present and potential performance. QlikView, a leading business intelligence tool, will tell you things you didn't know about your business and can highlight data management issues quickly and flexibly. This level of insight means you're more agile and more able to respond to your business performance so you retain your competitive advantage.

Front office

Sage SalesLogix, Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Sage CRM enable the deployment of a single database for front office sales, marketing and customer services functions. They make knowledge sharing, process efficiencies and a streamlined organisation possible by enabling data management within a single shared environment, inside and outside the physical boundaries of the business.

Integrate

Integrate disparate systems, including front and back office applications, using Orbis TaskCentre to reduce integration costs and enable the use of a single view of IT resources across the business. Paribus can match data across different databases so your whole system is efficiently integrated and duplicate free.