Posts Tagged ‘data

Types of Data

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14 Dec 2011

Broadly speaking, there are five types of data: unstructured, transactional, hierarchical, metadata and master. A description about each of these types of data is explained below: Unstructured This is data residing in doucments such as PDFs, e-mails, product catalogues, marketing materials, brochures, portals etc Transactional Transactional data is part of a transaction such as invoices, [...]

Master data is non-transactional data and refers to data which is important to an organisation. Popular examples of master data include employees, products, materials, suppliers, customers and several others. In essence, master data is non-transactional data without any duplicates i.e. a repository of “golden records” or often referred to as “single version of the truth” [...]


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I am Manjeet Singh Sawhney and work as an Information Management Consultant for Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in London (UK). Prior to TCS, I have worked for Accenture, Tibco Software and Initiate Systems (now IBM). My areas of expertise are Master Data Management (Customer, Product, Reference), Metadata Management, Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Integration, Data Profiling and Data Analysis. I am using this blog to share my knowledge and hope that you will find it useful. Thanks for visiting.


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