Author name: Roman Stepanenko

There are many benefits to having a canonical record set, such as improved data quality, reduced storage costs, and easier data management. In order to create and manage a canonical record, there are a few things you need to do.

A canonical model (also known as common data model) is a single, common, model that ensures your systems can communicate in a consistent way. It can help you create a definitive source of truth for specific types of data.

For businesses, to make sense of the exponentially growing data, formatting and standardizing it in a consistent way becomes crucial. You can’t achieve holistic, consistent analytics when a data warehouse or data mart doesn’t serve its purpose with data siting there unstandardized, unlinked, and fragmented.