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of an organization. A leading computer industry information service firm indicated that it “expects most business process reengineering initiatives to fail through lack of attention to data quality.” An industry executive report noted that more than 60% of surveyed firms (500 medium-size corporations with annual sales of more than $20 million) had problems with data quality. The Wall Street Journal also reported that, “Thanks to computers, huge databases brimming with information are at our fingertips, just waiting to be tapped. They can be mined to find sales Anchoring Data Quality Dimensions Ontological Foundations