Post on 16-Jul-2015
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Businesses rely on data more than everbefore, making it even more important tokeep your systems healthy and fit.
Or you’ll be at riskwhen the go-to-personon your team wins thelottery and heads off toa tropical island.
UserQua
lity
Performance
Reliability
To measure your DataFitness, look at yourquality, reliability, andperformance
Reliability depends on fourfactors:
Backup: Document and test everything.Recovery: How much can you afford tolose?Availability: Are outages "okay?"Security: Crucial for every size business.
Save yourself problems later bydocumenting and testingbackups.
Don't wait for an emergency tosee if your systems work.
Control Documents:
High Availability:
Security:
What To Look For:
Documented ProcessesTested Processes
Vendor contractsScheduled outagesRecovery processes
ConfigurationLogging
Quality depends on threefactors:
Accuracy: Calculations produce the sameresults when different systems are used togenerate the data.Cleanliness: Consistency between internal andexternal data entry (i.e. Michigan, MI, Mich) Timeliness: How long from data entry untilaction is needed.
What To Look For:Where can you improve your data entry?How clean is your internal/external datainput?Where can those be improved?Are your MDS (Minimum Data Set) /DQS (Data Query System) systemsworking correctly?
Network Saturation:
Like a traffic jam on a highway when all lanes arefilled with cars and going very slow.
Or when people are trying to leave a stadium.There might be 10 gates and 2,000 people alltrying to push through.
System Utilization:
The overall usage or health of aserver/workstation (CPU, RAM, HHD, bandwidth,users, connections, etc).
When all those items get close to 90-100%, youget network saturation.
What To Look For:How efficiently are you using yoursystems?How much space are you taking up onyour network?Response time for internal, external, andreporting users.