OCTOBER NEWSLETTER - Eccma · PDF fileWorld Codification Forum Copenhagen, Denmark November...

linking the knowledge of today, with the power of tomorrow

As you read this I will be on my way back from Riyadh, Saudi

Arabia where I will have presented the results of the ECCMA work

on the phase I pilot of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Common

Open Catalog (KSA-COC). The project created a common

catalog from the data provided by some of the world’s largest

buyers in order to provide local market intelligence for both

government planners and local manufacturers. In phase II local

manufacturers and suppliers are expected to be encouraged to

also use this unique platform to increase the local and

international visibility of their goods and services.

Sheron and his team did an incredible job not only in mapping

the data from all the project participants to the eOTD and to

common templates, but also in creating concept equivalence

tables. The results are truly amazing providing the ability to view

the original data in a common framework and in a combined

ISO 8000-120 compliant view where every data element is

displayed with its provenance. For those of you who have taken

the time to read the Edition II of Managing a Data Cleansing

Process for Materials or Services published as an ECCMA white

paper and available under the Resources>Downloads>White

Papers, you will recognize the screens with characteristic data

and identification data along with short and long descriptions. In

phase II I expect to see classification data added to the KSA-

COC records as well.

Sheron and his team also built and successfully tested a web

services interface that allows the content of the KSA-COC to be

extracted and loaded into third party applications. This is very

significant and may prove to be a game changer in cataloging

and data cleansing by providing the tipping point for cataloging

(Continued on page 2)

FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

October 8th, 2013 ISO 8000 Data Quality Webinar

8:30 AM - 12:30 PM EDT

Conference Call

October 10th, 2013 eCDM Training Webinar

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM EDT

Conference Call

October 14th, 2013 Member Q&A Webinar

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM EDT

Conference Call

October 16th, 2013 Board of Directors Meeting

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM EDT

Conference Call

October 22nd, 2013 ISO 8000 Master Data Quality

Manager Workshop Travaasa Resort

Austin, Texas

October 22nd - 24th, 2013 14th Annual ECCMA

Data Quality Solutions Summit Travaasa Resort

Austin, Texas

November 6th - 7th, 2013 World Codification Forum

Copenhagen, Denmark

November 14th, 2013 Data, Tech & Ops Conference

Boston, MA

OCTOBER NEWSLETTER

PAGE FOURPAGE FOUR Article by I.M.A. Ltd,

“Common Reasons

Data Cleansing

Projects Fail”

PAGE PAGE

FOURTEEN FOURTEEN Article by Erie

Insurance,

“Beware of

Frankendata”

PAGE S IXTEENPAGE S IXTEEN Article by CADENAS

PARTsolutions,

“5 Ways to Win with

Standards”

October 2013 – ECCMA Newsletter 2


at source. Currently it is buyers that are sharing data through the common open catalog but in

phase II the catalog is expected to be open to manufacturers and suppliers. This will improve the

local and international visibility of their products and services by allowing international

eMarketplaces and exchanges to access and redistribute the data in the KSA-COC. The KSA-COC is

not limited to the products and services provided by local manufacturers, in fact it is expected that

the great majority of the items in the catalog will have been imported. Several of the buyers see the

catalog as an ideal solution to lowering the cost of obtaining the characteristic, identification and

classification data needed for import documentation from suppliers. This is particularly relevant as

we are seeing several countries requiring quality item descriptions that specifically contain the

characteristic data necessary to confirm the assigned customs code (HTS). As buyers have to

provide this information to all their customers the best place to do this in the Middle East will be in

the KSA-COC.

Also, as part of this project, I reached out to a number of our

members who provided advice as well as letters of support. I would

like to express my thanks to Ariba, Aura, Java Gulf, Kontenix and

PartNet for their valuable advice and support with the project.

The common open catalog application is web based and we are

already seeing interest from ECCMA members in using the

application for other local manufacturing initiatives and to view

master data from multiple sources within a group as the COC does

not require any modifications in the source applications. Using the

application in this way would be a good first step in any master

data consolidation or harmonization project.

While designing and implementing a successful KSA-COC pilot has been one of our main

challenges over the last few months it has not been the only one. In September we completed the

design and implementation of the new ECCMA Natural Location Identifier (eNLI) registry. Wasim

Akram Syed has been responsible for its development under the guidance provided by Elizabeth

Green. The best way to understand an eNLI is to visit the new ECCMA ePROP website

http://eccma-eprop.org and under the Standards tab you will find a link to the free eNLI generator

and eNLI decoder. I can guarantee that you will be surprised to learn that named street address

may be following the path of named telephone numbers. Following close behind the eNLI is the

ECCMA Controlled Property Identifier (eCPI) registry, essentially a public library of KML files that

represent legal property boundaries. Both the eNLI and the eCPI were developed to offer a solution

to property identification in the mortgage and finance industries and when used correctly they will

provide a way to make visible the underlying assets of a collateralized debt obligation (CDO).

(Continued from page 1)


http://eccma-eprop.org/




These two additional registries brings the ECCMA count of managed registries to six; the eOTD, a

registry of concepts and associated terminology, the eDRR, a registry of data requirements, the

eRGR, a registry of rendering guides (under development), the eGOR, a registry of organizations, the

eNLI, a registry of natural location identifiers, the eCPI, a registry of controlled property identifiers

(under development). With six registries of our own, we are also working on the ECCMA Quality

Identifier Registry (eQIR). This seventh and final registry is designed to provide the application

processable information necessary to resolve and validate any of the ECCMA or third party

registered quality identifiers. A Quality Identifier (QI) as an identifier that can be publicly validated

using a standard application processable data exchange. The eQIR is designed to support many of

our existing master data quality initiatives and is expected to provide our members with a way to

leverage their expertise in the use of ISO 22745 and ISO 8000.



It is no surprise that we often run into companies who have experienced a

failed data cleansing project and no longer believe in the value that cleansing provides. It is

unfortunate to hear about companies who have invested thousands of dollars in data cleansing

projects, only to end up going back and correcting the data afterwards. When meeting with many

of the material, purchasing and procurement managers in these situations, we typically discover a

few common reasons why their previous cleansing projects failed.

One of the most common reasons for project failure is that the

previous service provider simply used automated software to

rapidly extract and classify thousands of existing items without

human review. While the speed and efficiency of this method

may have been impressive, the end result was not. In these

cases, data was returned to the customer with incorrectly

classified items, inconsistent descriptions, and often, inadequate

information. Although the quality of these automated software

applications has come a very long way and is continuously

improving, the truth is there is no software application that can reliably transform large files of

unstructured data into accurately standardized, enhanced and structured descriptions without

human intervention.

Another common reason why data cleansing projects fail is due to a lack of flexibility to

accommodate customer requirements and an unclearly defined Standard Operating Procedure.

Many data cleansing companies are very rigid and will only cleanse and format data to their own

standards. Obviously, this can become a significant issue as every company is unique and has

different business requirements when it comes to format, standards, abbreviations and project

timeline. If data is not standardized and structured according to customer requirements, it not only

defeats the purpose of implementing a data cleansing project, but also requires a significant

amount of time and effort for the customer IT department to re-work and prepare the data before

uploading. Project timeline is also critical as Data Cleansing is often part of a larger ERP

implementation. If the data cleansing deliverable is not completed on time and within scope, the

entire project will be delayed, costing the company valuable time and money.

The final common reason why data cleansing projects fail is due to the absence of a long-term

strategy to maintain ongoing data quality as items are added, modified and suspended within the

catalogue. If a catalogue management process is not implemented after the cleansing project is

complete, the data will quickly revert to its previously corrupt state. Once again, this common

mistake defeats the purpose of investing thousands of dollars into a

COMMON REASONS WHY DATA CLEANSING PROJECTS FAIL SUBMITTED BY: Jocelyn Facciotti Marketing Manager, I.M.A. Ltd.




Data Cleansing project.

Data Cleansing can provide many short and long-term benefits for all units of the business when

implemented properly. If you are one of the unlucky companies who have invested thousands of

dollars into a failed data cleansing project, don’t feel bad, you’re not alone. While Gartner claims

that the MDM market is still premature, there are a few solutions available that have been proven

and perfected over many years of experience. Although every data cleansing company uses

software to a certain extent, the best results can only be achieved through a combination of

software and human intervention. When considering a data cleansing project, it is well worth the

time and effort to research various service providers to understand their cleansing methodology

and ability to meet company specific requirements. After all, data is the foundation for business

decisions and if the foundation isn’t constructed properly, the entire investment will come crumbling

down.

About I.M.A. Ltd.

As a results-oriented company, I.M.A. Ltd. is dedicated to providing the most accurate, consistent

and reliable data available in the industry, while continuously developing and improving solutions

based on the changing market and feedback of customers. Although many competitors have

chosen to sell software and services based solely on speed and efficiency, I.M.A. Ltd. believes that

quality remains the most important factor when dealing with critical inventory data. The I.M.A.

theory suggests that a balanced combination of technology and human intervention is required to

achieve the highest level of data quality.

For more information, please visit www.imaltd.com or contact [email protected].

The ECCMA Member Q&A webinar is being made available exclusively to its members. This one-hour

webinar is hosted by Sheron Koshy, President of ECCMA India and responsible for the R&D team. During

this session, we encourage you and your team to ask any questions you may have regarding your

membership and ECCMA’s available resources. Questions can range from use of the eCDM, mapping

support for the eOTD or implementing ISO 22745 or ISO 8000. Join us and take this opportunity to speak

with the Mr. Koshy directly to get your questions answered!

Check out our available sessions through December 2013 on ECCMA’s Upcoming Events Page. If you

are interested in learning more, please contact Vicky Falcone at [email protected] for

complete details.


http://www.imaltd.com

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.eccma.org/aboutus/upcomingevents.php




GPS, TRADITIONAL ADDRESSES AND EMERGING DATA STANDARDS SUBMITTED BY: Elizabeth Green

Chair, ECCMA eProp Workgroup

September has been an exciting month with the announcement of the “ECCMA Property Team” or

“eProp” for short, who is responsible for soliciting and developing terminology to standardize how

digital content about real property is represented in the ECCMA Open Technical Dictionary (eOTD).

The group is also charged to build and maintain domain specific data requirements and register

these in the ECCMA Data Requirements Registry (eDRR). This effort includes the identification of

properties in terms of location, type, use and purpose as well as characteristics of properties such as

structural details and land attributes.

The group is made up of a cross-section of real property professionals,

including appraisers, city planners, assessors, surveyors, inspectors,

engineers, architects and technologists. eProp seeks to align real world

concerns and information about real property with the application of

modern technology-based data governance, management, exchange

and analytics. I am pleased to be the Chairperson of this group and am

assisted by my friend, John Cirincione, Chief Appraiser at Collateral Ana-

lytics as Vice Chair.

I began working with ECCMA in the fall of 2012 in the quest for improving

real property identification for electronic data interchange in the

mortgage banking industry where I chair a property workgroup for the

standards organization, MISMO. I became a member of ECCMA in early

2013 and achieved the ISO 8000 Master Data Quality Manager Certificate.

Technology is leveraging property information in ever-increasing ways, from simple directions to a

restaurant to complex tracking of real property as collateral underlying a mortgage-backed

security and I am committed to demystifying the inherent complexities in property information.

Comprehensive location identity and core knowledge about the property are both fundamental

and foundational to any property-related activity. Common definition and data standards are the

key to unlocking the full potential of property data in modern society.

Another exciting development is the release of the ECCMA Natural Location Identifier or eNLI™.

Certainly, GPS technology is without a doubt one of the wonders of our generation, but it is still

hampered by the street address system. Switching to pure latitude and longitude coordinates is a

challenge as there are four different formulas and, whichever way you look at it, they are all a lot of

numbers. It is from this challenge that a new standard has emerged that gives GPS coordinates a

human-friendly 14 character code. (Continued on page 7)



The eNLI encompasses the postal address details, computed geocodes (a single latitude/longitude

point on the map) from a service such as Google Earth, as well as actual coordinates collected

electronically from the site or provided by the user including latitude, longitude and elevation.

The eNLI is a “natural” identifier that uses the ECCMA 1-4 Property Natural Lot and ECCMA 1-5 Prop-

erty Natural Unit open standards published by ECCMA. The eNLI as a “natural” identifier is very dif-

ferent from a licensed location identifier as not only do you not need to pay a license fee to get

one you also do not need to retrieve the actual location information from a registry, the location is

encoded in the eNLI itself.

An eNLI can be created and used to identify any location from a mail box, a front gate, front door

back door or the location of a propane tank. It can be used to locate the front door of an apart-

ment or condominium unit, any door in an office building or any piece of equipment in any office or

factory.

These new initiatives are important and exciting steps in the post Dodd-Frank economy and for both

the ECCMA community and the international data quality mission. Please check out our new web

destination: www.eccma-eprop.org. I look forward to meeting some of you next month in Austin!

About the Author

Elizabeth Green is the Principal Consultant with rel-e-vant Solutions, is a strategist,

solutions architect, speaker and valuation advocate. A recognized mortgage

technology veteran in software product leadership for solutions in residential property

valuation, loan origination, mortgage servicing and secondary marketing, Green is

helping to foster a new level of understanding in property valuation and collateral risk

assessment through the application of digital intelligence. She is the third term

chairperson of the MISMO Property and Valuation Services Workgroup, chair of the

Property Identification Development Workgroup and member of the Governance Committee. Ms.

Green is a new member of ECCMA and recently completed her ISO 8000 Master Data Quality

credential.

Street Address

GPS Coordinates

eNLI Calculated Geocode Actual Coordinates

Collected

2980 Linden Street

Suite E2

Bethlehem, PA 18017-

3283

USA

40.656364

-75.354772

40.656135

-75.354125 945647-5AB23T-H1


http://www.eccma-eprop.org



Take a look at the ECCMA Data Quality Solutions Summit agenda!


Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013 8:00-9:00am Breakfast (Jean's Kitchen) 8:00-9:00am Registration & Badge Pick-up (Lone Star Foyer) 9:00-9:15am Welcome & Opening Address (Lone Star Room)

Peter Benson, Executive Director, ECCMA 9:15-9:50am Big Data & Data Quality- Experience & Perspective from Consumer Internet

Dan Defend, Data Quality Manager, Yahoo! 9:50-10:25am Big Data Quality: Can Data Quality Survive the Big Data Revolution?

Roger Wahman, VP, InterSys Consulting 10:25-10:35am Big Data Open Discussion 10:35-11:00am Morning Break (Lone Star Foyer) 11:00-11:35am The NATO Codification System: Linking Industry & Government Worldwide

Steven Arnett, Chief, Codification Services, NATO Support Agency (NSPA) 11:35-12:10pm A Standards-Based Approach to Bridge the Gap Between Electronic Catalogues &

Engineering Dan Carnahan, Program Manager, Rockwell Automation

12:10-12:20pm Data Provenance Open Discussion 12:20-1:20pm Lunch (Jean's Kitchen) 1:20-1:55pm Unique Identification of Real Property Using Open Standards

Elizabeth Green, Principal Consultant, Rel-e-vant Solutions 1:55-2:30pm Reference Data in the Cloud

Diane Schmidt, Managing Director, Noetic Partners Justin Magruder, Senior Managing Director, Noetic Partners

2:30-2:55pm Data Quality- Foundation of Good Spend Visibility Fred Henien, Master Data Management Solutions, Ariba an SAP company

2:55-3:05pm Measuring Data Quality (Part 1) Open Discussion 3:05-3:30pm Afternoon Break (Lone Star Foyer) 3:30-4:05pm What a Data Quality Tool Can Do for You

Mark Hudson, Senior Manager, CapTech 4:05-4:40pm Master Data Acquisition- A Project Necessity

Pieter Strydom, Director, PiLog 4:40-4:50pm Measuring Data Quality (Part 2) Open Discussion 4:50-5:00pm Closing Remarks

Peter Benson, Executive Director, ECCMA 6:00-8:00pm Dinner (The Spur Room)





Thursday, October 24th, 2013 8:00-9:00am Breakfast (Jean's Kitchen)

8:00-9:00am Registration & Badge Pick-up (Lone Star Foyer)

9:00-9:15am Welcome & Opening Address (Lone Star Room) Peter Benson, Executive Director, ECCMA

9:15-9:50am Data Alliances- A Foundation to for Success Thomas Tong, VP of Client Engagements, Knowledge Transformation Partners

9:50-10:25am The Road to Noncompliance is Paved with Good Data Craig Laufer, QA Engineer, Erie Insurance

10:25-10:35am Data Governance Open Discussion

10:35-11:00am Morning Break (Lone Star Foyer)

11:00-11:35am The Secret to a Successful "Big Data" Initiative: An Effective MDM Platform William Miller, Director, Product Management - MDM, Oracle

11:35-12:10pm MDM as a Business Tool for Data Standardization Luuk van den Berg, Data Governance Lead, Cisco Systems

12:10-12:20pm Master Data Management Open Discussion

12:20-1:20pm Lunch (Jean's Kitchen)

1:20-1:55pm A Holistic Approach to Data Quality Timothy King, Executive Consultant, LSC Group

1:55-2:30pm Making Predictions with Data Mining Tools Mark Hudson, Senior Manager, CapTech

2:30-2:55pm A SaaS Approach to Entity Identity Management Dr. John Talburt, Director, ERIQ Research Center, UALR

2:55-3:05pm Turning Quality Data into Valuable Information (Part 1) Open Discussion

3:05-3:30pm Afternoon Break (Lone Star Foyer)

3:30-4:05pm TBA TBA, Officer, Kaygen

4:05-4:40pm TBA Hannes De Bruin, Manager- Supply Management, Exxaro Pieter Strydom, Director, PiLog

4:40-4:50pm Turning Quality Data into Valuable Information (Part 2) Open Discussion

4:50-5:00pm Closing Address & End of Summit Peter Benson, Executive Director, ECCMA

Visit

http://www.eccma.org/2013dqss/register.php

to register for this years conference!

http://www.eccma.org/2013dqss/register.php



The Oil and Gas industry provides key source of energy as well as feedstock for petrochemical,

fibers and pharmaceutical industries. Individual Oil and Gas firms are amongst the largest global

business enterprises and as such are generally seen as being vital to the national interest of the

countries in which they operate. The sheer size of major Oil and Gas firms, the large volume of

industry-specific language, technology and methods, as well as the vertically integrated nature of

major Oil and Gas firms, spanning from exploration to retail delivery, makes them particularly suited

to a interoperability solutions project that will focus on their unique requirements for physical asset

management.

In 2012, an Oil & Gas interoperability solutions project was

approved by the Automation Systems and Integration

technical committee, ISO/TC 184. The intent of this project is

to address interoperability requirements for Oil and Gas

industry upstream and downstream facilities with a focus on

Operations & Maintenance and its associated requirements

for physical asset life-cycle engineering. The scope will also

address appropriate, closely related industry groups such as

the Petrochemical and Power Generation industries.

This project takes a full life-cycle approach to asset

management interoperability spanning from

conceptualization through remediation, while also having a substantial focus on establishing a

sustainable Execution Environment for Operations and Maintenance (O&M) based on open and

non-proprietary data, information and knowledge management practices.

Key objectives for the Oil and Gas Solutions Project will include:

Enabling improved data, information and knowledge management related to Oil and Gas asset

management integration.

Enabling open and non-proprietary data and information exchanges throughout the complete life-cycle and resource hierarchy of a platform, plant, facility, rig or reservoir, including development, procurement, deployment, and restoration.

Establishing both an Open and non-proprietary Reference Information Environment and O&M

Execution Environment with proper synchronization in order to enable a more sustainable Oil and

Gas industry.

As shown in figure 1, ISO 15926 is seen to play a key role in establishing the Reference Information

Environment, while ISO 18435, ISO 22745, ISO 13374, along with key industry standards associated

with the OpenO&M Initiative, are expected to form the core of the Execution Environment.

THE OIL AND GAS INTEROPERABILITY SOLUTIONS PROJECT, ISO 18101 SUBMITTED BY: Dan Carnahan Program Manager, Rockwell Automation




The project scope will be bounded by specific use cases, such as the digital handover of O&M

information from an Engineering Procurement Contractor (EPC) to enable automatic provisioning of

O&M systems, production optimization and maintenance. Real industry data sets for both upstream and

downstream will be utilized in validating the interoperability requirments for the project.

ECCMA's role as US TAG administrator for TC 184, SC 4, and SC 5 TAGs provides the opportunity for

interested individuals and organizations in the US to engage in standards development, such as this

project, that affects a global community. The return on investment by participating in a TAG can be

measured not only by your ability to influence a global set of standards, but also by the career and

cultural opportunities provided that are not easily accessed in any other forum. For more information on

joining TAGs, please contact Sheron Koshy.

About the Author

Mr. Carnahan is a principal engineer for Rockwell Automation, Advanced Technology. He has

worked for Rockwell Automation for over 25 years in various program, project management

and systems, product, network-related, electronic catalog and safety standards areas. He has

several patents related to industrial automation technologies and applications. Mr. Carnahan

is the Chairman of USTAGs for ISO/TC 184 (Automation Systems & Integration) and ISO/TC 184/

SC 5 ISO/TC 184/SC 05 "Interoperability, integration, and architectures for enterprise systems

and automation applications". He also leads and convenes ISO/TC 184/SC 05/WG 07

"Diagnostic and maintenance applications integration" working group engaged in specification standards for

interoperability of diagnostics & production systems (ISO 18435). He is also currently participating as expert in

ISO/TC 184/WG 6 (Oil & Gas Interoperability Project), IEC/TC 65/WG 16 (Digital Factory), as well USTAG

member for IEC/TC 65, SC65B, and SC65E.



GET INVOLVED


The ECCMA Corporate Dictionary Manager (eCDM) is an on-line dictionary

linked to the world’s largest open technical dictionary, the eOTD. The eCDM

assists companies with the creation and maintenance of their multilingual

corporate dictionary that all colleagues, throughout your corporation, can see

and use. This process avoids confusion in labeling data; the first step to data

quality.

To sign up for a one-hour complimentary training with a 30 day trial where you

will be able to utilize all the major functionalities of the eCDM and become famil-

iar with this open source tool, please visit www.eotd.org/ecdm.

To view available training sessions or to sign up,

click here

ECCMA 1 specifies requirements for identifying

a unit space. The identifier is an encoding of

the latitude, longitude, and floor of the front

door of the unit space.

Members can download this FREE by visiting the ECCMA Members Area.

Non Members can download this standard for $25.00 USD by visiting:

http://www.eccma.org/ECCMAstandards/index.php.

http://www.eotd.org/ecdm

http://www.eotd.org/ecdm

http://www.eccma.org/ECCMAstandards/index.php



GET INVOLVED

ECCMA holds monthly 4 hour webinars that provide an overview of ISO 8000, the international

standard for data quality. Individuals that attend are able to receive their ISO 8000-110 Master Data

Quality Manager certificate by taking an online test. Any previously certified individual may attend

this webinar free of charge. For complete details on the next webinar and certification, check out

our website at: www.eccma.org/webinar or feel free to contact [email protected]. Sessions are

now available through December 2013.

The Fellow Membership Award recognizes an individual or company who has

proven to have a big impact on the data quality or standards world for the

past year(s). Let your voice be heard and help ECCMA continue to recognize

leaders in this industry. If you feel someone or some organization deserves to be

recognized, we are accepting nominations. To submit your nomination, please

visit www.eccma.org/2013dqss/award.php#nomination. The award is

presented on Wednesday evening at the social event dinner.

An ECCMA Scoping Study analyzes up to 3 years of PO transactions and

compares these to the material and vendor masters to identify frequently

purchased items, as well as, the vendors from whom they are purchased.

ECCMA then analyzes the material master characteristic data, names and

descriptions as well as the “free text” descriptions in PO and uses these to

create an initial corporate dictionary and cataloging templates (data require-

ments). The initial corporate dictionary and the corporate templates are

modified during the actual data cleansing project. Finally, ECCMA revisits the

materials and ranks them according to a priority scale based on three dimensions (item unit cost,

total spend and number of suppliers). The end result is a much clearer picture of the goal and the

path to the goal, this makes it easier for contractors to quote accurately and it makes it easier to

quantify the internal effort required to complete the project with or without contractors.

If you would like to discuss your specific requirements, please do not hesitate in contacting Peter

Benson at [email protected].

http://www.eccma.org/webinar

mailto:[email protected]?subject=ISO%208000%20Webinar

http://www.eccma.org/2013dqss/award.php#nomination




BEWARE OF FRANKENDATA SUBMITTED BY: Craig Laufer

QA Engineer, Erie Insurance

My girlfriend has a lawnmower that has been dubbed Frankenmower. It has parts that have been

cannibalized from many other mowers. Bent wheel? No problem. Just take one from another mower.

Broken pull cord? That’s what knots are for. It continues to do a remarkably good job. Why? Because it

has been watched over and given the attention it requires.

Test data is often cobbled together like this. Start with a regression test suite;

stitch in a few artificially created files; bolt on some production data to fill in the

gaps. And thus is born Frankendata.

Is Frankendata bad? Not necessarily. In fact, it is often essential to provide

good test coverage. However, like Frankenmower, it needs to be monitored

and maintained. Is the regression test suite still valid, or has it gone stale? Are

the generated files robust enough to meet the testing needs? Has the

production data been scrubbed to remove personal information? It is not

enough to patch together your test data; you need to control the individual

aspects, and you need to apply quality principles to the whole. In other words,

you need Test Data Governance.

You may be thinking, “This isn’t a problem. I have a good Data Governance program. It will

automatically take care of test data.” This is only true to a degree, because for test data, there are

additional governance aspects that are not encountered with other forms of data. Remember the data

scrubbing mentioned above? Privacy is a big topic, and it is only getting bigger. Consider that there are

significant external drivers for a company to invest in data governance, such as SOX and HIPAA. There

are also significant drivers for a company to safeguard privacy, such as GLBA Title V – Privacy. Use of

production data for testing is also getting attention. In reference to primary account numbers, PCI DSS v

2.0, requirement 6.4.3 states, “Production data … are not used for testing or development”. There is little

doubt that all of these concepts will eventually merge into an overarching theme, and the ramifications

will be far-reaching and costly. How much is being done in this discipline? Try an internet search on the

quoted phrase “test data governance”. There are about 30 meaningful hits. Compare this to thousands

of hits for “data governance”.

My recommendation? Don’t focus only on the present and the near-term tasks you need to accomplish,

because then you will not see the storm on the horizon. Rather, be forward thinking, and develop your

own Test Data Governance program now. Otherwise, Frankendata will assuredly grow bigger, and it will

very likely turn into a monster if it is not given proper oversight. And when that happens, the powers that

be will eventually run for torches and pitchforks, and you will be caught in the middle.




About the Author

Craig Laufer has many years of IT experience, ranging from in-house developer to

consultant to testing engineer. He has spent the last five years leading a test data

management initiative designed to improve productivity by automating many aspects of

test data procurement. His involvement in this initiative from its inception gives him unique

insights into this discipline, which is becoming more significant with the heightened

awareness of privacy concerns, both from a legislative perspective and from increased

public sensitivity to the issue.

UPCOMING ISO 8000 MASTER DATA QUALITY MANAGER WORKSHOP Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Travaasa Resort, Austin, TX


http://www.eccma.org/2013dqss/workshop.php



PARTS MANAGEMENT– 5 WAYS YOU CAN WIN WITH STANDARDS SUBMITTED BY: Jay Hopper

VP of Marketing CADENAS PARTsolutions

Wherever you are reading this, take a moment to look around. How many items

can you find that are based on a standard? How about the light bulbs over your head, electric outlets

on the walls, USB ports on your computer, that stapler on your desk and even the bottle opener in your

drawer? Standards are everywhere and make our lives so much easier, yet the day to day benefits are

so often overlooked.

Thanks to planners, product designers, engineers and industry visionaries, our world is made simpler, eas-

ier, more efficient, cheaper and more compatible because of the effective management and prolifera-

tion of standards.

Now think about what you design and build. How many

components within those products are considered stan-

dard parts? How much more efficient could you be if you

could better manage how your store, find, and re-use

those parts in your designs? How much better would your

product be if you could spend more time engineering solu-

tions rather than redrawing those parts?

The advantages we enjoy in our everyday lives thanks to

universal standards can also be applied to standard supplier parts used in your job. By recognizing and

managing standards in your designs, your processes can also be simpler, easier, more efficient, cheaper

and more compatible.

At PARTsolutions, we call that “standardizing standards” and we’ve outlined 5 ways any company, large

or small, can benefit from standards parts management:

1. Save Design Time

Engineers can literally save thousands of hours of design time utilizing a parts management system to

find, re-use and control standard supplier parts and internal standard parts as well. By centralizing stan-

dard parts, engineers access parts (or models) from a single source. Every standard part they need is in-

stantly available at their fingertips. If each engineer at your company could save 1 hour per day, what

would that mean for your company?

2. Spend Time on Design That Matters

That time savings can also free up engineers so they can focus on solving the problem, perfecting the

product or engineering the solution, rather than wasting time monkeying around with standard parts. En-

gineers spend way too much time searching for parts and redrawing them. The majority of an engineer’s

time should be spent on what we call “value-added design” i.e. design (Continued on page 17)



that adds value to the business. Searching and redrawing common parts doesn’t add value.

3. Speed Up Product Development & Time to Market

By eliminating menial engineering tasks, like searching for or redrawing parts, you can speed up product

development and manufacturing automation design and get your end-products to market faster.

4. Let your Standards Supplier Do the Updating

By cataloging your standard supplier content in a central location, you create a “single authoritative

source” for your engineering teams. Using our PARTsolutions parts management system, commercial

parts suppliers provide their catalog content to engineers. The suppliers maintain and update all that

data, so engineers don’t have to waste their time doing it. Also, orders are accurate because product

data is always current. So, you won’t order an obsolete part, for example.

5. Standardization Gives You Purchasing Power

Best-in-class companies are taking parts management to the

next level. They are creating visibility between engineering

and purchasing departments to achieve unprecedented

purchasing power. By seeing what parts are being designed

into products and what vendor parts are being specified

across the company, purchasers can analyze this data to

identify opportunities for a leveraged buy from a supplier. Not

only can the company get a better deal on parts on a

volume purchaser, the order accuracy goes up substantially because the part data is accessed from a

singular source. Essentially purchasing and engineering are drawing their data from the same place, so

it’s super accurate. It’s a win/win/win – for the engineer, purchaser and the company.

The engineering world needs more visionaries who understand the value of embracing standardization

and can promote it within their companies. Standards help everybody. Good luck to you and your

efforts to help standardize standards!

About CADENAS PARTsolutions

PARTsolutions® LLC is a leading provider of PLM solutions for next generation 3D part catalog manage-

ment and hosting, delivering solutions since 1992. For large manufacturers, the PARTsolutions product

suite provides centralized 3D standard part catalogs making it easy for global design teams to find, re-

use, and control standard and proprietary 3D parts.

To learn more, please visit: www.partsolutions.com.


http://partsolutions.com/strategic-parts-management/motivation/

http://www.partsolutions.com



Brady Corp Associate Member

Camcode Full Member

Camcode, a division of Horizons Incorporated,

provides a vast array of technical services involved in

all facets of tracking and identification labeling and

marking. We provide all forms of industrial

identification including production items, warehouse,

location, assets, rack and even high quality placards.

A particular specialty is our in-depth knowledge and

experience in Unique Identification (UID) policy

including development, implementation planning and

project assessment, data validation and cleansing,

engineering of the marking approach, label

production and installation, and item registration.

Camcode has also begun to explore data resolution

as a means of confirming authenticity and pedigree

of these items. Camcode’s full suite of technical

services can be customized to accommodate your

specific needs and requirements.

To learn more about this member, please visit:

www.camcode.com.

Minera San Cristobal S.A. Associate Member


www.minerasancristobal.com.

Quantum Semantics, Inc Associate Member

Xtivity, Inc Full Member


www.xtivity.com.

Have You Seen ECCMA’s Upcoming Events?

Which Events Will You Attend?

ISO 8000 Webinars, eCDM Training, ISO 8000 Workshops,

Member Q&A webinars now have scheduled sessions

through December 2013.

Follow Us on Twitter @ECCMA

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS

http://www.camcode.com

http://www.minerasancristobal.com

http://www.xtivity.com



DISA Full Member

Exxaro Associate Member

I.M.A. Ltd. Associate Member

In many cases asset-intensive organizations have

multiple plants spread across large geographic

regions, each with thousands of MRO spare parts on

hand. In such large organizations inventory data

becomes inconsistent and inaccurate, resulting in

large amounts of excess inventory, duplication and

false stock-outs. Each of these inefficiencies greatly

ties up time and money and will only continue to

worsen if appropriate steps are not taken to resolve

the problem. I.M.A. Ltd. offers solutions to cleanse,

manage, view and optimize Materials Master Data,

ensuring clients capture maximum cost savings.


www.imaltd.com.

Kingshir Technology Associate Member

Kingshir Technology Solutions (P) Ltd provides

affordable, accurate, reliable, standard compliant

solutions for managing Master Data across the

organization. Kingshir provides solutions for master

data management in the areas of Materials, Assets,

Vendor, Services, HR and other Masters that are

required by an organization, through its life cycle.


www.kingshir.com.

Oniqua Associate Member

Oniqua provides advanced analytics-based Asset

Performance Management solutions that dramatically

improve the efficiencies of asset-intensive

organizations across inventory, maintenance and

procurement operations. With cross-functional

integration, data cleansing services and 20 years of

industry experience and expertise, Oniqua helps

customers cut costs, minimize risk and achieve

significant savings in a matter of months. Oniqua is

proud to serve the world’s leading asset-intensive

organizations in the oil and gas, mining, utilities and

transportation industries


www.oniqua.com.

XSB, Inc Associate Member

XSB, Inc. is a privately held Product Content and Data

Management (PCDM) technology company. XSBs

automated data management solutions transform

unstructured jargon-rich data into information that is

rich, structured, precise and timely; we call this

Coherent data. Coherent Data is the backbone of

any organization; it is highly structured, readily

queriable, and integrated across the entire enterprise.

XSBs patent pending approach to data

standardization and management represents the

convergence of ontologies and automated software

agents. Our solutions have set new standards for

information retrieval, data classification, master data

management and supply chain optimization.


www.xsb.com.

RENEWED MEMBERS

http://www.imaltd.com

http://www.kingshir.com

http://www.oniqua.com

http://www.xsb.com


ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR MELISSA M. HILDEBRAND

[email protected]

MEMBERSHIP ADMINISTRATOR VICTORIA M. FALCONE [email protected]

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR PETER R. BENSON

[email protected]

CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER DR. GERALD M. RADACK [email protected]

PRESIDENT, ECCMA INDIA SHERON KOSHY

[email protected]

ECCMA is a not-for-profit International Association of Master Data Quality

Managers set up in 1999, to develop and maintain open solutions for

Faster – Better – Cheaper access to authoritative master data.

ECCMA is the original developer of the UNSPSC, the project leader for ISO

22745 (open technical dictionaries and their application to the exchange

of characteristic data) and ISO 8000 (information and data quality), as well

as, the administrator of U.S. TAG to ISO TC 184 (Automation systems and

integration), TC 184 SC 4 (Industrial data) and TC 184 SC 5 (Interoperability,

integration, and architectures for enterprise systems and automation

applications) and the international secretariat for ISO TC 184 SC 5.

MEET ECCMA

STEVEN ARNETT NATO Support Agency

Larry Barth Vermont Energy Investment Corp.

Peter Benson ECCMA

Don Brown (Emeritus Director) PartNET

Chris Haydon Quadrem (Ariba)

Donald Hillman Lehigh University

Sheron Koshy ECCMA, India

Pieter Strydom PiLog International

Bern Werner Salar, Inc.

UPCOMING ARTICLES DUE BY:

NOVEMBER 18TH, 2013

NEXT RELEASE DATE:

DECEMBER 1ST, 2013

If you are interest in submitting

articles for our viewers, please

contact, [email protected]. Articles

may range from data quality issues,

cataloging projects or interesting news

or tips you’d like to share with our

members and audience. THANK YOU!

2980 LINDEN STREET, SUITE E2│BETHLEHEM, PA 18017 USA P: +1 610 861 5990│F: +1 610 625 4657

WWW.ECCMA.ORG

ABOUT ECCMA






http://www.linkedin.com/company/eccma?trk=top_nav_home

http://www.facebook.com/pages/ECCMA/152514421531860

http://www.youtube.com/user/eccma1999

https://twitter.com/ECCMA

OCTOBER NEWSLETTER - Eccma · PDF fileWorld Codification Forum Copenhagen, Denmark November...

Documents

Transcript of OCTOBER NEWSLETTER - Eccma · PDF fileWorld Codification Forum Copenhagen, Denmark November...