Standards From The Start... Please!

Here's a succinct and heartfelt appeal for developers to incorporate data standards right from the start of their work. Gary at Master Data Management writes on his blog that systems are still being designed and implemented with little regard to the accessibility or utility of the data later on down the line.

“Data management is often considered a technical task – because the mess that has been created from years of neglect can be technically challenging to resolve,” he says. This is right on the money. Standards are a business tool, because without them the enterprise generates technical issues and barriers to business performance.  Data Management from the Beginning