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ERP: Data Quality and the Data-Driven Enterprise

ERP: Data Quality and the Data-Driven Enterprise

Enterprise resource planning, or ERP for short, integrates the functions of an organization around a common database and applications suite. A brainchild of the late 20th century – ...
The Role of a Chief Data Officer

The Role of a Chief Data Officer

According to a recent article in Information Management, nearly two-thirds of CIOs want to hire Chief Data Officers (CDO) over the next year. Why is this dramatic transformation ...
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Ruby on Rails Integration Tutorial

Ruby on Rails (or more colloquially, “Rails”) is a server-side web application framework that provides its users a powerful arsenal to create web pages, web services and database ...
DOTS FastTax Gives More Accurate Tax Rates by Identifying Unincorporated Places

DOTS FastTax Gives More Accurate Tax Rates by Identifying Unincorporated Places

In a recent blog we discussed how to identify Incorporated and Unincorporated places. There are a number of reasons this is important, one of them being to determine accurate ...
The Importance of Data Accuracy in Machine Learning

The Importance of Data Accuracy in Machine Learning

Imagine that someone calls your contact center – and before they even get to “Hello,” you know what they might be calling about, how frustrated they might be, ...
The Role of a Data Steward

The Role of a Data Steward

If you have ever dined at a *really* fine restaurant, it may have featured a wine steward: a person formally trained and certified to oversee every aspect of ...
These New Sales Tax Laws Might Affect Your Business

These New Sales Tax Laws Might Affect Your Business

Colorado is a very difficult state to accurately calculate sales tax in. We estimate there are thousands of tax rates that vary based on location. As with most ...
Data Quality and the Environment

Data Quality and the Environment

Service Objects recently celebrated our 15th year in business and it made me reflect on something that is important to me and is an underappreciated reason for improving ...

Peer-to-Peer: The Next Frontier

Peer-to-Peer: The Next Frontier

How do you get millennials interested in a cause? For starters, you don’t use traditional direct marketing techniques. Millennials won’t even answer a call from an unknown phone ...