The Real Cost of Bad Data: What It Actually Costs Across Oracle, SQL Server, and Microsoft Fabric
The cost of bad data never shows up as a single line item. It shows up as a finance team quietly re-running a report before a board meeting, an analyst spending an afternoon reconciling two numbers that should already match, and a sales forecast leadership stopped trusting months ago without ever saying so. This article walks through where those costs actually hide – inside an Oracle ERP and across a Microsoft Fabric medallion architecture and what a governed data quality framework changes about that pattern.