Six steps to quality - special report: data quality

THE VAST MAJORITY of enterprises spend months - even years - determining which computer hardware, networking and enterprise software solutions will help them grow their business, but few pay attention to the data that will support their investments in these systems. Yet, according to Gartner, the Fortune 1000 companies will lose more money this year in operational inefficiency due to data quality issues than they will spend on data warehouse and customer relationship management (CRM) initiatives.