AI and MDM: Engineering Data Excellence

Unlock the Potential of Artificial Intelligence with Trusted Data Quality

As AI continues to gain traction across organizations...

... high-quality data remains the foundation for success

62%

of CDOs and data leaders plan to
increase spending on GenAI
in their organizations

46%

identify data quality
as the greatest challenge to
realize AI potential

89%

of data leaders
claim their organizations
lack the right data foundation

Based on the CDO Agenda 2024: Navigating Data and Generative AI Frontiers
by Thomas H. Davenport, Randy Bean, and Richard Wang

Reliable and Bias-Free AI

Risk

Without robust data governance and stringent quality measures, the capabilities of generative AI can be significantly undermined, leading to potential risks such as reputational damage, poor management decisions, and flawed business processes.

Reason

When data is biased, it can result in skewed AI outputs, compromising the accuracy and fairness of the generated content. These biases frequently arise from insufficient or poorly chosen training datasets, which may be too small or of low quality.

Remedy

By adopting data quality best practices, businesses can effectively address these challenges and enhance the fairness and reliability of AI outcomes. Ensuring clean and well-governed data helps mitigate risks and promotes more equitable and effective AI solutions.

Master Data Management Best Practices for AI success

Just as the typical “garbage in, garbage out” principle, the same applies to AI: if the input data used to train an AI model is inaccurate, incomplete, inconsistent, or biased, the model's predictions and decisions will be too. To reduce project risk and fully leverage the potential of generative AI technology, businesses must prioritize data quality through effective master data management.

Best practices to consider:

Data Governance

Establish robust data governance to ensure responsible
data practices, mitigate biases, safeguard privacy,
and compliance with regulatory standards.

Data Cleansing and Validation

Regularly clean and preprocess data to eliminate errors,
duplications, and inconsistencies, maintaining
high data quality.

Data Profiling and Quality Metrics

Utilize data profiling tools to assess data quality with metrics
that measure completeness, accuracy, consistency, and timeliness,
providing a quantitative measure of data reliability.

Data Classification

Categorize data effectively to empower governance and security
teams, differentiating sensitive information from data clutter
to implement appropriate controls.

Leveraging AI to Enhance Data Quality

Reliable data is essential for businesses leveraging AI for competitive advantage, such as in customer segmentation and supply chain optimization. But AI isn’t just about using data; it can also improve data quality throughout the entire Data Value Chain.

Data is the foundation of digital business models and operations, and it’s crucial for managing risks and meeting regulatory requirements. The real challenge for decision-makers is to effectively harness data as a valuable resource that drives business success.

The CDQ Approach

Enhancing Data Quality with AI

Master data cleansing is often a tedious search in countless tables and systems, involving at least three different business processes that need to agree on standards, priorities, responsibilities. And if data cleansing services are considered, most of the time they are not flexible enough to take business-specific requirements and fuzzy logic into consideration.

At CDQ, we harness the power of artificial intelligence to transform and digitize data cleansing. By employing advanced algorithms and machine learning techniques, CDQ automates and refines the process of identifying, correcting, and managing data quality issues.

Here’s a closer look at how CDQ uses AI to boost the data cleansing process

Data Profiling and Assessment

CDQ utilizes AI algorithms to identify patterns and anomalies within datasets. This capability enables efficient detection of inconsistencies and duplicates. Furthermore, CDQ employs machine learning models to evaluate data quality using metrics such as completeness, accuracy, consistency, and timeliness.

Duplicate Detection and Merging

By employing AI, CDQ can identify and merge duplicate records by recognizing that different entries refer to the same entity, even if the data is not identical. Machine learning techniques can match similar but not identical records, improving the accuracy of duplicate detection.

Anomaly Detection

For anomaly detection, CDQ employs AI-powered models to identify outliers that indicate data entry errors or unusual patterns. CDQ's machine learning capabilities allow for the analysis of historical data to detect deviations from expected trends, signaling potential data quality issues.

Scalability and Efficiency

One of the significant advantages of CDQ is its ability to handle large datasets efficiently. This makes CDQ ideal for big data environments. By automating repetitive and time-consuming tasks, CDQ frees up human resources, allowing them to focus on more strategic activities.

Automated Data Correction

In the realm of error detection and correction, you can significantly enhance the process by automatically identifying errors like typos, incorrect formats, and invalid entries, where CDQ identifies a need for improvement. Additionally, CDQ ensures uniformity across datasets by standardizing data formats, units, and values.

Data Enrichment

Enriching datasets is another area where CDQ shows its strength. By integrating external data sources, CDQ fills in missing information and enhances data completeness. And with advanced ML-capabilities, CDQ provides a reliable tool to understand and extract relevant information from unstructured data sources.

Monitoring and Improvement

CDQ ensures continuous monitoring of data quality in real-time, providing alerts and automated responses to emerging issues. Through feedback loops, CDQ’s machine learning models learn from past corrections and user feedback, continually enhancing their accuracy and effectiveness.

By leveraging these AI capabilities, CDQ significantly enhances the accuracy, reliability, and usability of corporate data. This leads to better decision-making and operational efficiency, ultimately driving greater value for the organization.

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AI-supported Duplicate Detection

Sartorius was looking for a sustainable solution to mitigate duplicate-related risks: not only ensuring that every data defect could be addressed post-creation, but also onboarding clean, unique records into the system at the first instance.

Duplicate checks are seamlessly integrated into Sartorius system, running automatically in the background. The algorithm swiftly identifies potential duplicates, triggering a streamlined process. When a potential duplicate is detected, a work item is generated for manual review, ensuring accuracy and precision.

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