2016 Data Quality
Survey Results
Scott W. Ambler
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About the Survey
• Ran during June 2016 under the title “2016 Data Quality
Survey”
• Survey link included in:
– www.ambysoft.com/surveys/ page
– Posting to TDWI, IASA, and Disciplined Agile
discussion groups on LinkedIn
– Twitter postings via @scottwambler
• Data, summary, and slides downloadable from
www.ambysoft.com/surveys/
• 54 respondents
• Many questions included an “I don’t know” or N/A option.
When processing the data from those questions, we have
excluded those answers from the analysis.
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Is Data Considered to be a Corporate Asset?
No, 13%
Yes, 87%
Source: 2016 Data Quality Survey
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Current State: Data Quality
92% of respondents indicated that their organization had data quality
problems
Their strategy to fix the problems:
No strategy to
fix
38%
Database
refactoring
32%
Rewrite all
applications at
once
6%
Hope we don't
make it worse
24%
Source: SA+A 2016 Data Quality Survey
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Interesting Findings
• 24% of developers get training in data skills
• 34% of data professionals get training in development
skills
• Of the organizations without automated database
testing, only 28% have thought about doing so
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52% of Application Development Teams Choose to
Avoid Their Organization’s Data Group. Reasons Why:
Data group too slow
62%
Data group offers little value
46%
Data group too hard to work with
46%
Don't know they should do so
46%
Don't know it exists
Not allowed to
15%
8%
Source: 2016 Data Quality Survey
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Approaches to Database Testing
Some form of DB testing (manual or
automatic)
74%
Manual DB testing by Quality
Assurance (QA)
46%
Manual DB testing by developers
26%
Automated testing by QA
26%
Automated testing by developers
23%
Source: 2016 Data Quality Survey
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