Leveraging Big Data has become a necessary step for many businesses that hope to compete and outperform their competitors in today's accelerated marketplace. With access to large pools of data brought together and treated as one, you can now reap data-driven strategies, discern patterns and make better decisions.

But just like the old computer adage, "Garbage in - garbage out," simply having and processing big data doesn't automatically boost your productivity or improve your profits. Many organizations have rushed to collect everything they could without concern for the quality of that data. In that rush for quantity, many have left quality behind.