Quality of data is a prime concern for many information-intensive businesses. Errors in data entry can have catastrophic effects and wreak total havoc as processed data has a direct impact in corporate decision-making and strategy-building processes. Errors can occur...
Ensuring Efficiency, Accuracy and Customer Satisfaction in Insurance Data Entry
Like other business entities, insurance companies also need to migrate from legacy systems to advanced information systems in keeping with the rising trend of customer self service and straight-through processing. However, this involves certain challenges that need to...
Real Time Data Entry to Improve the Transparency of T & E
Analyzing and processing data is important, as far as any business is concerned. As per the report of IDC (International Data Corporation), the total amount of information across the globe will reach 35,000 exabytes by 2020. Raw data involves the facts and figures...
Data Entry Error Puts FGCU on Top of U.S. News ‘Most Debt’ List
Accurate data entry is crucial for the success in data management. Erroneous data can result in wrong decisions and have unpredicted and serious consequences. Data entry errors can also affect the social status of an organization, as the recent incident involving...
How OCR Helped a Herbarium Disseminate Knowledge
Optical character recognition (OCR) is an often indispensable tool in data entry and transcription. This has been used by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) for expanding its digital archive. The digitization drive is being carried out with great enthusiasm....
Nullifying Data Entry Errors in Voter Registration
Data entry error in voter rolls is not something new during the voter registration process. It often happens while transferring voter registration information from handwritten registration applications to voter databases. According to recent news, a report posted on...
Data Entry Error at Hutch
Though modern techniques of data entry have reduced the number of errors to a great extent, they are still happening in businesses. Since data accuracy must be the main focus area of businesses, it's very important for organizations to have a proper mechanism to...
Critical Data Entry Errors Cause Major Changes in Final Results in Elections
Mistakes in data entry can earn you an award or cause you to lose an election. These are two contrasting but real-life situations that made news recently. The first case is that of an Oakville student of St. Ignatius of Loyola Secondary School who with an average...
Data Entry Error, the Reason Behind Ontario Election Reversal
The process of data entry, which comprises entering of textual information from print or audio sources into documents, spreadsheets and databases, may seem a simple thing. However, even a simple error can have disastrous consequences and lead to unpredictable results....
Data Entry Errors Could Have Caused Much of the Voting Irregularities in North Carolina
Recent reports point to several hundred cases of potential voter fraud relating to the 2012 presidential election in North Carolina. It seems that NC's voter rolls are terribly flawed and contain numerous duplicates, deceased voters, and voters who have since left the...