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Continuous Data Qualification

Validate, verify, and ensure consistency across all data streams automatically.

What Is Data Qualification?

Data qualification ensures every data stream meets defined standards for consistency, validity, and reliability before reaching your platforms. Without qualification, invalid data causes downstream failures and inaccurate AI models.

Gartner Framework: Qualification Capabilities

How Expanso implements each Gartner capability

Consistency Assessment

Gartner Definition:

Ensure data conforms to expected schemas and business rules.

How Expanso Delivers:

Declaratively enforce schemas and business rules on any data stream. Non-compliant data routes to dead-letter queues at the source.

  • Declarative schema enforcement
  • Business rule validation
  • Dead-letter queue routing for invalid data

Validation & Verification

Gartner Definition:

Check data against known good states and expected patterns.

How Expanso Delivers:

Real-time validation against reference data, lookup tables, and historical patterns. Catch anomalies before they propagate.

  • Reference data validation
  • Pattern matching and anomaly detection
  • Real-time verification against known states

Operational SLAs & Observability

Gartner Definition:

Monitor pipeline health and data quality metrics continuously.

How Expanso Delivers:

Monitor pipeline health, throughput, and errors across your entire distributed footprint from a single pane of glass.

  • Real-time pipeline observability
  • Quality metrics dashboards
  • Alerting on SLA violations

Problems Data Qualification Solves

Invalid Data Breaks Pipelines

Before:

Schema mismatches, null values, and type errors cause pipeline failures. Data teams get paged at 3am.

After:

Validate schemas Invalid data caught immediately and routed to dead-letter queues for review.

90% fewer pipeline failures

No Visibility Into Data Quality

Before:

Data quality issues discovered days or weeks later. By then, bad data has corrupted reports and AI models.

After:

Real-time observability into every data stream. Quality metrics tracked from source to destination.

Instant quality visibility

Inconsistent Data Across Sources

Before:

Same entity (customer, product, transaction) has different representations across sources. AI models see conflicting data.

After:

Enforce consistency rules at origination. Standardize formats, units, and representations before data moves.

100% data consistency

How Expanso Enables Data Qualification

1

Define Qualification Rules Once

Set schemas, validation rules, and quality thresholds in declarative config. No custom code.

2

Apply Automatically at Every Source

Rules enforce automatically across thousands of distributed sources. Consistent qualification everywhere.

3

Route Failures for Review

Invalid data doesn't break pipelines - it routes to dead-letter queues for analysis and correction.

Data Qualification in Action

Retail: Consistent Customer Data

Retail

Validate customer records from POS, web, and mobile apps at origination. Catch duplicates and nulls before warehouse.

85% reduction in duplicate customer records

Energy: Sensor Data Validation

Energy

Verify sensor readings against expected ranges. Catch faulty sensors before bad data affects predictive maintenance models.

99.9% data accuracy for AI models

Financial Services: Transaction Verification

Financial Services

Validate transaction formats and amounts at source. Ensure consistency across payment systems.

Zero downstream validation errors

Validate Data at the Source