Summary
This chapter has outlined an example suite of monitoring reports for data quality. This may need to be adapted to your organization but should at least provide an accelerator for the design discussions.
The reports allow anyone in the organization who is given access to them to see an overall picture of data quality and how it is trending over time. They allow people of all different levels to drill right down to record level if they wish. They provide a clear and measurable guide to how data quality really is in the organization.
Of course, they are only as good as the rules that are input into them. Assuming the rules are of appropriate quality, the Failed Data Reports provide an actionable to-do list of data that must be remediated.
The next chapter is all about taking this actionable list and cleaning up the data. This activity will start to reap the benefits that you worked hard to identify when implementing the approach from Chapter 3.
