Clean, Organise and catalogue your data
Good data underpins sound business decisions. Business projects and operations are often fast moving and immersive and it is very easy lose sight of your physical and digital data holdings. These resources can quickly become disordered reducing their value. A Datawise rationalisation project on part or all of your data holdings can help you avoid this by cleaning up and restoring order. This allows you to regain control and realise value from your data.
What's involved?
- Locate and Evaluate: Be able to fully answer these key questions - What data do we have? Where is it? Is it useable?
- Remove or Retain: Establish document requirements. Ensure needed items and those subject to legal or other retention obligations are kept while disposing of redundant data assets. Ensure media is not kept beyond its shelf life risking data loss. Remove unnecessary GDPR data by destroying out of date personally identifiable information.
- Rationalise and get it sorted once and for all: By removing duplicate and redundant data you can then ensure your data sets are complete. Finally, cleaned up data can be organised into a fit for purpose directory structure.
- Digitalise your physical documents: Simplify your physical data archive, backup and distribution among staff by leverage our scanning service to take this key step towards digital maturity.
- Inventory catalogue with basic indexing: The simplest way of managing your data, a catalogue of searchable base metadata together with location (physical) and link (digital) information for your data items. This will improve access across your company and release the value held in data assets.
Merlin's Capability
We are experienced in processing complete digital data collections accumulated over time from different sources. These often contain significant duplication and redundant data, lack consistent structure or organisation and are not readily searchable. We work through these systems to deliver a consistent structured file system accessed via a searchable catalogue. This improved dataset integrity enables you to take more confident technical and business decisions. We have directly supported ongoing technical operations for clients which saw a high success rate due to their ability to fully integrate all their technical information in a timely manner.