There is no question that poor data quality is a problem pervasive across numerous industries and organizations. According to the 2006 Data Warehousing Institute report on enterprise data quality, nearly half of survey respondents claim that the quality of their data is ""worse than everyone thinks."" The number of respondents saying that their organization had suffered losses, problems, or costs due to poor data quality grew from 44% in 2001 to 53% in 2005. Thankfully, in recent years, these same respondents have claimed on new focus on data quality and the need to do something about it. Here