Achieving superior data quality — George Corugedo // Redpoint Global

Chief Technology Officer at Redpoint Global, George Corugedo, continues discussions on data quality. Companies want to ensure that the data driving their business decisions is accurate. They understand that data only becomes valuable when it solves their business problems. Today, George lays out strategies to achieve superior data quality.
About the speaker

George Corugedo

Redpoint Global

 - Redpoint Global

George is Chief Technology Officer at Redpoint Global

Show Notes

  • 02:13
    Achieving superior data quality
    Have a disciplined approach towards capturing and processing data. Source-to- target-mapping makes it easier for the data to be transformed
  • 03:33
    Sourcing your data
    Data should be sourced internally and externally. Process the data to get it to a clean, perfected state. Afterward, you can go through it to do the identity resolution.
  • 05:34
    Defining a target
    These are the metrics your business cares about. So its really about figuring out how to tie these metrics or transformations back to your sources.
  • 07:08
    The mapping process
    The software takes the data and source feeds and runs them through all the necessary transformations. It then delivers those outcomes on the other end.
  • 08:09
    How early
    Local marketing agencies will help them build their database and clean their data. This enables very targeted and effective marketing.
  • 09:13
    When companies should consider solutions like Redpoint Global
    When marketers are not having their needs met by local marketing agencies. Marketers who are looking for tools that enable creativity, exploration, and drive performance.
  • 10:16
    What leads companies to upgrade data quality
    When companies start to serve wider audiences, their needs will surpass the local marketing agency level. At this point, there are a lot of very intense requirements in marketing.
  • 11:22
    Business impacts of superior data quality
    Data is only valuable when applied to business problems. Its about getting to the point where the data is able to deliver that value at the cadence of the customer.a

Quotes

  • "We make achieving superior data easy by providing a source-to-target-map. That allows people to do their homework, and tell us the way they want their data transformed." -George Corugedo, Redpoint Global, CTO

  • "We do a whole cascade of processing that allows us to standardize the data before we bring all of the matching records together. And that's how we create our golden records or identity resolution." -George Corugedo, Redpoint Global, CTO

  • "The value of data isn't realized until its linked. We recruit as much data as possible in the business. Then, whatever that source is, we eliminate any hurdle preventing us from getting that data." -George Corugedo, Redpoint Global, CTO

  • "Sourcing is unraveling that data and figuring out what all the pieces mean. Get it into a clean, perfected state, then do the identity resolution." -George Corugedo, Redpoint Global, CTO

  • "You say, here are my sources, and all the things that I want. Then figure out how to tie it all together so that you can deliver the data products on the other end." -George Corugedo, Redpoint Global, CTO

  • "The software does the mapping process. It takes all of those source feeds. It runs them whatever processing needs to happen along the way. And then it delivers those outcomes on the other end." -George Corugedo, Redpoint Global, CTO

  • "Many local marketing agencies do a very good job of cleaning data up and creating databases that enable marketers to do very targeted and effective marketing." -George Corugedo, Redpoint Global, CTO

  • "Marketers outgrow local agencies, and start to look for tools like Redpoint when they work for a brand that they really want to drive." -George Corugedo, Redpoint Global, CTO

  • "When you're working with local marketing agencies, you're going to have maybe half a dozen sources maximum." -George Corugedo, Redpoint Global, CTO

  • "When you get to a multinational retailer, they're not going to fit into a local marketing agency. But, that ambition drives a lot of creativity and a lot of intense requirements in marketing." -George Corugedo, Redpoint Global, CTO

  • "It takes time, effort, and resources to create perfect data. Value comes when you apply it to a business problem. And the real key is being able to deliver that value at the cadence of the customer." -George Corugedo, Redpoint Global, CTO

  • "You have to be able to respond in the cadence of the expectations of the consumer. Sometimes that's 10s of milliseconds, at very high transactional volumes, and not everybody can do that." -George Corugedo, Redpoint Global, CTOa

About the speaker

George Corugedo

Redpoint Global

 - Redpoint Global

George is Chief Technology Officer at Redpoint Global

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