Redefining Progress - Welcome. How Clean Is Your Data? Getting a handle on all the data that flows through your business and making sure it's all clean and accurate can be a daunting challenge, especially if you have globally dispersed business units, each with its own software applications. But, as more manufacturers ramp up operational excellence initiatives and deal with global regulatory issues, they are finding that a data governance strategy is essential to ensuring consistency across the enterprise. And, increasingly, manufacturers are making master data management processes and tools a major part of such a data governance strategy.