Fitness for Use / Fit for Purpose

Fitness for Use - A term used to indicate that a product or service fits the customer's defined purpose for that product or service.

[Category=Quality ]

Source: American Society for Quality, 23 September 2010 12:40:01, http://www.asq.org/glossary/

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Fit for purpose - A common definition of Data Quality_ is that data should be fit for purpose of use. Since master data is used for many purposes within an organization, a master Data Management_ solution must be able to embrace a range of requirements for Data Quality_. Fulfilling these requirements is done through Data Quality_ improvement.

[Category=Data Quality ]

Stibo Systems, 19 May 2011 08:52:00, http://www.stibosystems.com/US/Resources/Glossary/F.aspx

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fitness for use - [Category=Data Quality ] The degree to which a dataset is suitable for a particular application or purpose, encompassing factors such as Data Quality_, scale, interoperability, cost, data format, and so on.

[Category=Geospatial ]

Source: esri, 21 April 2012 09:32:17, http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/GISDictionary/term/abbreviation

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Fitness for Purpose - The suitability of data for the intended use, that is, the degree to which the statistical information meets the needs of the data.

[Category=Data Quality ]

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 24 November 2012 10:21:04, http://www.nss.gov.au/dataquality/glossary.jsp