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Attacking the Data Jungle: Because bad data are the most expensive solution (and not a really good excuse).

What does Data Jungle mean? If data structures are so deficient that the overall picture gets lost. In most cases the standard statistics ERP systems provide are not enough for the important issues. Moreover, there are often mistakes in the data. 

Without industry and functional competence data content cannot be understood and therefore not really structured. In this way, the job to make sense out of company data remains usually with staff themselves. A tedious job for which there is usually no budget.

How do we approach the problem? We understand your data.

In several years we have been building up comprehensive Knowledge Bases for various industries and areas. By applying modern methods of computational linguistics, we are able to classify data by its content and to do the processing according to the respective purpose. Applications range from simple product group classification to restructuring of entire data structures or the transfer of certain data attributes into databases. 

The result is for many of our customers a transparency never experienced before which can immediately be translated into tangible benefits, e.g. in Purchasing. 


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Advantages by data standards



Purchasing optimisation: Pooling comodities

Commodity structure development by semantic attributes in master data and unstructured text
Improve purchase performance based on more transparent annual planning figures
Supplier concentration, strategic purchasing, efficiency increases


Data Cleansing
Define standard structures for all data records
Analyse materials, standardise nomenclature, eliminate duplicates
Process cost reduction / acceptance


New ERP-System introduction
Adapt data structures for migration (e.g. character/field limits)
Concept for migration (which fields, which content, implementation, documentation
optimum use of ERP-System


New data structures after merger/acquisition
Synergies and cost reduction in material management are impaired because of heterogeneous material master data
Define standardised structure for all records
New classification, elimination of duplicates, data enrichment