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Monitoring data origin essential for consolidation; op-ed: prism group data services director Dickerson Watkins.

Publication: Business Travel News
Publication Date: 23-OCT-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
As travel management reporting needs expand, corporations are asking that their travel data be consolidated into single data sources for easier management. Few stop to consider whether consolidation harms the data.

When a corporation requests that its data be consolidated, the original ticketing travel agencies are instructed to send that company's data to a consolidating entity. Such an entity can be either another travel management company or a company that specializes in data consolidation.

The question of data completeness and integrity must be paramount to all parties in the consolidation process. The ticketing data source that is handing data off to a consolidator must send the hill, rich data at the outset. Essential data elements can be lost if the export from...

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