Improvements in the Management of Structured and Unstructured Data

We describe business practices and IT tools that we deployed to reduce the time that Engineers and Geoscientists spend<br>looking for, gaining access to, and manipulating data and information. Various sources have estimated that technical<br>professionals spend up to 30% of their time searching for data and information. Less well measured, but estimated to be just<br>as large, is the time spent gaining access to data, moving it into and between technical applications and dealing with data<br>quality problems. We share our analyses and classification of how this time is being spent.