Last year Gartner reported that more than 25% of critical data in Fortune 1000 companies would “continue to be flawed...the information will be inaccurate, incomplete or duplicated” and three-quarters of large enterprises would “make little to no progress towards improving data quality until 2010”.

Some businesses are beginning to realise that the data their companies input and emit is in danger of spiralling out of control.

This whitepaper from The Register examines the problem of data quality, and the tools available today to mitigate them