Software as a service (SaaS) is everywhere these days, with high-profile success stories like Salesforce leading the charge of hosted business tools. When we launched MasterVision back in 2006, the term “SaaS” wasn’t in common […]
Here at DataSalon we’re constantly looking at how best to present data in clear and intuitive ways. Top of our ‘hit list’ was to come up with a better alternative to using the humble pie […]
One of the first steps on the path to data quality enlightenment is to audit the quality of your data. It’s useful to know the current state of play, to work out which data sources need your […]
I’m currently training for a marathon, and have been putting off sorting out the tons of running data gathered by my GPS watch. I haven’t been practicing what I preach when it comes to data […]
Recently we’ve been working on a new tagline – one which sums up everything we strive to achieve at DataSalon, on behalf of the many publishers we work with. We’re now pleased to unveil the […]
We dipped our toes into the world of webinars recently, hosting a free session on the topic of data quality. This was the first webinar we’ve hosted and as such was a bit of an […]
With the start of a new year inevitably comes some thinking about strategy for the next twelve months. We’re no different here at DataSalon, and in December we all sat down and had a good […]
We’ve recently been analysing client data sources through our data quality module, MasterVision DQ, and one of the findings we were interested to note was the limited information available for individuals’ subject interests. This is […]
We’ve been reading the recent CASRAI-UK Organisational ID report on institutional identifiers in the UK with interest. The report was commissioned by JISC to provide a landscape review of organisational identifiers currently used, and makes […]
We have recently spent a lot of time looking at data quality issues in publisher data. Email addresses are a key piece of contact info, and essential for online marketing campaigns, so it’s particularly important […]
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