Timothy Valihora: IBM QualityStage

Timothy Valihora is an IBM Information Server certified consultant fluent in numerous areas of information technology. He graduated from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where he studied computer science, math, film, and commerce. To serve his clients, Timothy Valihora uses a wide array of software, server tools, and operating systems such as IBM’s InfoSphere platform, which includes QualityStage.

QualityStage is a powerful but accessible tool designed for enterprise users such as companies involved in gathering and examining business intelligence. In particular, QualityStage places users in control of a graphical user interface (GUI) where they can effortlessly implement automated processes. For example, sets of data can be matched according to user-specified rules and analyzed according to a diverse set of metrics.

One of QualityStage’s most powerful features is data cleansing, the ability to pull data from a source, measure it, clean it, consolidate it to eliminate redundancy, and upload it to a target system. Data cleansing occurs over five stages, each providing users with total data visibility. QualityStage also provides address verification, which verifies postal codes and other address information for over 240 countries.