ProAcitve School Data Quality™

To accurately demonstrate accountability, support the development of individual student record systems, and comply with No Child Left Behind requirements and other data-intensive initiatives, state and local education agencies require a rigorous and objective means of validating and improving the quality of their data. A critical element of any existing system transformation or systems integration is to first understand the quality of the data in each source, then to ensure the quality and integrity of the resultant data. Data should be audited at key points throughout the transformation process, to prevent corruption, truncation, improper mapping or defects resulting from potential flaws in transformation logic. Further, the development of transformation solutions presents an opportunity for organizations to improve data quality with a systematic approach that allows for periodic auditing, monitoring and analysis.

With ProActive School Data Quality™, Schools Gain Important Advantages:

Present the issues that need to be dealt with when using data from each existing source and provide an objective comparison of sources when the same data is recorded in multiple locations. • Ensure conformance with basic data quality tests, such as completeness, referential integrity, primary and secondary key integrity, validity, format, etc. • Uncover business rules in existing data that may not be well understood. • Ensure that the data complies with business rules. • Perform regular, periodic data quality analysis, interpretation, reporting and recommendations. • Produce trend reports, certification metrics, and Data Quality Report Cards, so you can understand quality issues at both the summary and detail levels. • Notify and report data quality issues that may threaten to compromise data transformation, data submission or business operations. • Apply commercially available data quality tools including name and address cleansing software.