Zoheb Raja

D1: Explain how an organisation could improve the quality of its business information justifying each of their recommendations.
Data administration will be informing the developers if data is already stored on the system and any old data which is not required and over certain time should delete and be taken of the system as it could cause disruption. Redburn College could improve the quality of its business information by having a stronger personal involvement by management and proving a High-level leadership for data quality. All the data on the system should be checked and unrequired details like courses which dont exist should be taken off the system. Data cleansing should be used consistently at Redburn College as it will keep the system up-to-date and will get rid of dirty data and this will improve the quality data added to system as it will be accurate and suited to the college environment. Data quality when mentioned people usually think of error-free data entry. It is true that sloppy data entry habits are often the culprit, but data quality is also affected by the way we store and manage data. The Data quality at Redburn college should be check so that no sloopy data entry are made and the system has no mistakes made in the data entry proses during enrolment for new students details like adding the wrong address. Adding incorrect data For example, a month must be in the range of 112, or a persons age must be less than 130. Correctness of data values can usually be programmatically enforced with edit checks and by using lookup tables. To makes sure there is no incorrect data is added the system there should be programs in place to make restriction as I have described in the above example. Inconsistent datauncontrolled data redundancy results in inconsistencies. Every organization is plagued with redundant and inconsistent data. This is especially prevalent with customer data. For example, a customer name on the order database might be "Mary Karlinsky," the same name on the customer database might be "Maria Louise Karlinsky," and on a downstream customer-relationship, decision-support system the same name might be spelled "Mary L. Karlynski. This shows an example of inconsistent data and how this can result at Redburn college as the student finance department take details of students and their names which may be spelt wrong or not full name this can conclude to inconsistent date being added as the student would not get any help with his finance to make sure this does not happen the person who enters the data should check if this students name is available on the system and this would ensure the student has made an mistake and can correct the name there should be policy in place to help inconsistency at Redburn college as it will improve the quality of its business information. The feel the key points I have described and justified on the reasonable recommendations given in this report can be applied effectively to Redburn City College, in order to improve the quality of business information and the consistency of the information given by the college.