Archive for September, 2007
Taking your eye off the ball
Though not a football fan in any sense, an item of news about PSV Eindhoven caught my eye because it illustrates well the costs of poor data management.PSV have been disqualified from the Dutch league cup competition because they had fielded a player who had been disqualified due to having received two yellow cards in […]
“Problems with the quality of the data” cause process traffic jam
Hundreds of Irish motorists (this author included) have technically driving uninsured because of delays with the National Car Test (the Irish equivalent of the UK MOT). This was reported by the Sunday Business Post on the 19th of August.
The Irish Road Safety Authority has confirmed that some motorists may not have been informed that their car was […]Hidden data, hidden dangers
I have always been an advocate of speaking of “data” rather than of “databases”, and have always felt that hiding data within large integrated database systems is a danger not only to the quality of the data but to the owners of the data themselves: the customers.
A couple of recent events illustrate this very well.
My […]IQ Trainwreck in Australian bank gives man a AU$11m overdraft
The Register picked up on this story on Friday. Their headline describes it as a ’scam’, but one of their commenters correctly points out that this is probably a failure of a business rule in one of the bank’s processes which resulted in Mr Victor Ollis running up an overdraft of AUS$11 million (approx US$9 […]
