Fragmentation 'impacts on companies' IT systems'

It is essential that companies try to unify their IT systems in order to boost the quality of data, an expert has claimed, which could benefit business management software users.

Daragh O Brien, former director of publicity and member of the International Association for Information and Data Quality, has highlighted fragmentation of systems as a major problem.

He said that this raises issues of timeliness, integrity of data and the reliability of information people receive - with areas such as risk being some of the most heavily-affected.

"Information quality, data governance and information management are now on the table," he stated.

Mr O Brien said that one of the key areas where this pattern is beginning to manifest itself is in the IT departments of financial services companies.

Thomson Reuters recently published research showing that firms are increasingly looking to exploit data consistency in order to achieve a more extensive view of risk and to boost their risk management processes.

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