FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DQ Now's ETL Audit & Cleansing
Audit Services Reduce
Risk & Rework
New fixed-price services
provide a clear view of every change
NORTH ANDOVER, MA., June 28, 2002 DQ Now
is pleased to announce two new fixed-price services. The ETL Audit
and Cleansing Audit compare data before and after a transformation
or correction, identifying and categorizing every changed value.
DQ Now delivers interactive HTML reports that provide several
views of the data and multiple levels of summary, allowing data
analysts to validate the data in record time. By validating changes
before applying to a production system or storing in a data warehouse,
customers reduce the risk that unexpected results will lead to
costly and time-consuming rework.
Market Need
With technology spending under tight scrutiny, the current priority
of most IT departments is to get a better return from existing
investments. Whether a data transformation project uses commercial
data quality software, an ETL product, or in-house code, DQ Now's
delivered reports reduce the time required to understand transformation
results by a factor of 3. Packaged as a service, the audits require
no software installation effort, no configuration time, and no
ongoing maintenance cost.
"We've worked hard to organize and present the relevant
data for maximum productivity," said Scott Lawton, President
and CEO of DQ Now. "To see how our approach delivers will
benefit any data transformation project, we encourage companies
to take advantage of our free trial. Send us sample data; we'll
send back a richly cross-linked set of HTML reports that provide
clarity and depth, saving time and reducing risk."
Pricing
$1,000 for a maximum of 10,000 records; $2,000 up to 100,000 records;
$5,000 up to 1 million records. A free trial for a sample of up
to 1,000 records is available to qualified companies.
Technical Background
Effective data transformation requires iterative refinement. Adjust
parameters that drive the process; run it; review results to identify
modifications that are not appropriate and to find any remaining
problems -- then adjust parameters to address these issues and
run again. DQ Now's ETL Audit and Cleansing Audit services support
this process by providing a clear view of changes, with drill-down
from high-level summaries to exact differences highlighted at
the character level.
About DQ Now
DQ Now, a division of PreFab Software, Inc., was created to bring
data quality solutions to more projects at more companies. Since
1993, PreFab has been delivering innovative solutions as products
and professional services, improving company productivity and
individual job satisfaction by simplifying and automating tasks
and workflows.
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