SITA CORP Partners with Clavis Technology to Deliver Right First Time Data Quality to SAP MDM Customers

Somerset, NJ and Dublin Ireland, September 9th, 2009: SITA CORP, a leading SAP integration and business management consulting organization, has partnered with Clavis Technology, the leading developer of on demand data quality governance solutions, to provide Clavis Data Quality Steward™ to SITA CORP’s extensive portfolio of SAP MDM customers.

Data Quality and Master Data Management (MDM) are inextricably linked. Clavis Data Quality Steward is the first Software as a Service (SaaS) offering providing the data quality controls and governance for upstream data creation and data update processes that are essential to ensure the success of MDM.

“MDM enables large organizations to remain agile, operate effectively and accurately measure performance. But organizations implementing MDM face a number of challenges, not least the fact that MDM needs high quality data to operate effectively,” said Garry Moroney, CEO Clavis Technology.

Many MDM solutions provide data quality checks as data enters the application to block or flag bad data. However, only a proportion of new master data is ever created in the MDM application or portal. Most large organizations use various forms, documents and spreadsheets to collect data, which makes it is very difficult to guarantee the quality of master data as it is created.

Poor data quality is an intractable problem in large organizations. Once incorrect data gets into an information system it becomes difficult and costly to rectify. Clavis Data Quality Steward is the only solution that enables organizations to enforce robust data quality controls in upstream data collection forms, documents, spreadsheets and applications, where most master data is created.

“Our customers understand that high quality data is essential to maximize SAP MDM investments and to run the most efficient and profitable businesses. With SITA CORP’s MDM expertise and Clavis Data Quality Steward, organizations will reap the benefits of MDM and high quality data throughout the enterprise for longer, by preventing data quality problems from occurring in the first place,” said Jason Childers, Solution Director, SITA CORP.

Clavis Data Quality Steward paves the way for MDM implementation and ongoing operation by enabling organizations to rapidly improve master data quality by addressing the problem at the point of collection. It ensures an organization’s key master data complies with internal and external standards well before it is used by the MDM system; ensuring the data ‘right first time, every time’.

The solution is delivered in the cloud as Software as a Service; SITA CORP customers don’t need to install any additional software to imbed data quality checks into their MDM processes. The data quality solution is accessible inside and outside the enterprise, enabling suppliers, trading partners and customers to apply the same data quality standards to any process. It is easy to configure, offers accelerated time-to-results and universal access based on a scalable subscription-based pricing model.