Busting the data quality jargon

Confused by some of the data quality jargon?  The following may help:

BPM	Business Process Management	A seamless integration of management, data and business intelligence
CDI	Customer Data Integration	Bringing together enterprise systems storing customer date to improve data quality proactively and understand the customer better.  A subset of MDM (see below
CRM	Customer Relationship	Management Use of an integrated data strategy to manage all contact a customer has with an organisation.
DW	Data Warehouse	Repository of historical business data - the 'read only' memory of a company
ERP	Enterprise Resource Planning	The integration of data and processes normally handled by several systems into a unified system
MDM	Master Data Management	Linking all systems with a master 'data hub' in order to support real time data integrity and bring together operational processes with business intelligence
BI	Business Intelligence	Applications and technologies that are used to gather, provide access to, and analyze data and information about company operations
EAI	Enterprise Application Integration	Use of software and computer systems architectural principles to integrate a set of enterprise computer applications
OLAP	Online Analytical Processing	An approach to quickly providing answers to analytical queries that are multi-dimensional in nature. OLAP is part of the broader category business intelligence

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