Wednesday, February 21, 2007

What User-Centric Data Reconciliation Does and Does not Do to Provide Business Value

In an effort to further refine the value proposition of User-Centric Data Reconciliation, below is a list of what it does and does not do:

What User-Centric Data Reconciliation Does:
  • Reduces intensive manual efforts to find data
  • Provides visibility to disparate data in a correlated, centralized way so that the “big picture” doesn’t have to be assembled piecemeal and manually
  • Offers a substitute to creating structured queries or views
  • Provides a single user interface for access to the underlying data sources
  • Produces side-by-side data for "stare and compare" reconciliation to manage discrepancies without the complexity of building or buying a reconciliation engine
What User-Centric Data Reconciliation Does Not Do:
  • Capture complex business rules for clarifying the relationships between discrepant data
  • Perform complex calculations on data subsets, such as summing up aggregated fields, etc.
  • Automate the reconciliation of data across multiple sources
  • Implement a workflow for prioritizing and resolving data discrepancies

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