Data Cleansing Services Ensures Quality Data

Corrupt data has been a problem for as long as people have attempted to gather and analyze information.

Data cleansing, also referred to as data scrubbing, is the process used to locate and repair(remove or correct) bad or inaccurate records from your database. Data cleansing includes several sub-processes that include the existence of: inaccurate data, incomplete data, and/or irrelevant data. The data cleansing processes then modifies the data by deleting or removing the corrupt data.

Data cleansing ensures that your data is accurate, consistent and correctly formatted. In other words, the process of data cleansing (aka data scrubbing) gets your data ready to go to work for you.

Did you know that the United States Postal Service (USPS) states 35% of all bulk mail mailed annually goes into the postal service dumpsters as a result of inaccurate addressing. Don't let data waste your next mailing campaign.

Northwest Database Services offers several Data cleansing services from full renovation and merge/purge to simple USPS CASS, ACS and PAVE certified coding.

You can find out much more about Data Cleansing/Data Scrubbing on the Data Scrubbing and Cleansing page.

Your data should be in one of the standard industry database/mailing list file formats so your IT department and data contractors, like Northwest Database Services can wrok with the data quickly and easily. Standard formatting facilitates the data cleansing processes.

Data cleansing is a necessary procedure; using the following formats will make your Data cleansing far easier. Common database file formats include: Microsoft Access, dBase III, and FoxPro. Microsoft Excel or fixed and delimited ASCII files are typically used only for data exchange and are not considered standard database formats.

Contact us for more Data Cleansing Information or call 503-684-4593.