Two hurdles that organizations face when starting a data quality program are finding and making the business case for data quality tools and finding practical high quality education. DQMatters is at the nexus of those two needs. We provide top rate data quality educational workshops, coaching, and implementation expertise in addition to stewarding the Conformed Dimensions of Data Quality. Starting in 2026, we’re offering a tangible product in addition to services. The new product, called the Open Data Quality Repository empowers individuals to learn how to use the Conformed Dimensions for free on their own, and enables enterprises to initiate the data quality journey with strategic vision at only a fraction of the cost of purchasing an expensive suite of tools.
During our DQJumpstart classes we cover all of the Underlying Concepts of the Conformed Dimensions of Data Quality and so DQMatters, in preparation for the release of Dan’s book, Data Quality Techniques, in July of 20226, we’re releasing the illustrative corporate database called the ABC Company with its own ANSI SQL database to illustrate the Conformed Dimensions. Individuals can access this database, conduct their own data profiling and learn the CDDQ Underlying Concepts for free. Learn more here!
But this wasn’t enough. We realized that one of the reasons organizations haven’t fully embraced the CDDQ so far was that each DQ issue hasn’t been explicitly pointed out and they don’t have a system to track the issues as they arise.
Our conclusion was that DQMatters needed to develop a DQ repository that enables CDDQ users to store their data quality rules, based on the Conformed Dimensions, and allows them to pick from rules developed by others (shared in the community) in a simple drop down format.
But Dan (CDDQ founder) had mixed feelings because he didn’t want to reinvent the wheel and simply create a new DQ tool that competes with well funded and thoroughly implemented platforms like those of IBM, Collibra, and others. So what’s the difference? How does the Open DQ Repository work in conjunction with existing DQ tool investments without detracting and competing with them?
Organizations need a warehouse-like data structure for monitoring DQ issues based on the CDDQ with extensibility to control their own architectural needs. The large vendors, for well thought out reasons, don’t allow individual organizations to add the Conformed Dimensions to their DQ tools. Furthermore, these platforms don’t store DQ results collected from in-house scanners, profilers, APIs and in-person observations. DQMatters’ customers and organizations like yours, need a well designed, thoroughly tested, repository to do this.
That’s where the Open Data Quality Repository fills a gap in the market. Individuals can learn how it works for free. Corporations can license the model from DQMatters for many hundreds of times cheaper than purchasing a new tool, while getting hands-on assistance implementing the model from DQMatters.
Take the first step, if you haven’t already, register to access the Miro board that includes both the ABC Company and Open DQ Repository Entity Relationship Diagrams, as well as access to the ABC Company and Open DQ Repository SQL build scripts. Access is free for personal educational use and you can license enterprise use. For more on licensing contact Dan Myers (dan@dqmatters [dot] com).