Identity Resolution Daily Links 2008-6-6
[Post from Infoglide] That’s the Ticket: Addressing a Different Kind of Lottery Fraud
“Type ‘lottery fraud’ into Google, and you get lots of returns warning about the dangers of Nigerian lottery scams and other phishing attacks on unsuspecting, and/or perhaps overly optimistic, consumers. But there are less well known types of lottery fraud also being perpetrated, and some of them hurt consumers as well.”
“In a prior blog I bemoaned having to miss Informatica World in Vegas this week. (Regular readers of the Jillblog know that what happens in Vegas gets blogged about almost immediately.) But I feel much better now, since the Wilshire Data Governance Conference in San Francisco has already exceeded my expectations.”
Washington Business Journal: Retail survey reveals growing theft problems
“Retailers are battling an increase of organized retail crime, according to the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) 2008 Organized Retail Crime report published Wednesday.”
Informatica: Data Quality - Ensuring Trust in Your Data
“TDWI once published a study that poor data quality was costing companies an estimated $600B annually in the US alone. And yet, industry analysts estimate the data quality tools market to be between $300-400M annually. The demand for better data quality is clearly there, but the size of the data quality tools market does not appear to reflect that same demand. Could it be that traditional Data Quality tools are not delivering enough value for customers?”
“Of the three types of organizations, Canadian retailers fared the worst, with less than one per cent (O.5 per cent) of consumers saying they are very confident retailers can protect their customers’ on-line personal and private information.”
Andy on Enterprise Software: The dust clears (a bit)
“I have wondered for some time about Informatica’s intentions in the MDM space. There had been some market rumours about them possibly buying Siperian, but it seems as if their not so secret meetings with Siperian were actually to form a partnership, which was just announced.”
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