Profiling: The process of assessing and analyzing the quality of data in disparate systems to see if it matches the expected quality as defined in the shared vocabulary data integrity and quality rules. Data is analyzed to assess its quality across a number of dimensions including accuracy, completeness, consistency, structure and uniqueness. The process of cleansing disparate data to get into the highest quality state. The process of transforming and integrating disparate data to produce an integrated high-quality data set described using shared vocabulary data names and data definitions.