Free benchmark report · 2026 edition
The Salesforce Dirty Data Index 2026
How dirty CRM data quietly distorts the forecast — and how the cleanest Sales Cloud teams score their Leads, Contacts, Accounts, Opportunities and Cases. Get the benchmark, then run a free scan of your own org.
- The six dimensions of data quality that move (or break) a forecast
- Where dirty data hides in each of the five core objects
- A scorecard framework you can apply to your own pipeline
- What "good" looks like — and the leakage hiding below it
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The backdrop
The numbers nobody is checking.
Your pipeline looks fine because the decay is invisible in the CRM. The report puts industry benchmarks next to your own org so the gap stops being a surprise.
~30%
of B2B contact data goes stale every year as people change roles and companies merge.
Source: Salesforce, as cited in industry reporting (2026)
$12.9M
average annual cost of poor data quality to a large organization.
Source: Gartner, as cited in industry reporting
5 objects
Leads, Contacts, Accounts, Opportunities & Cases — every one feeds the forecast, and every one decays.
Scored in your free DQ Health Score Card
What's inside
A benchmark you can act on.
SECTION 01
The six dimensions that decide a forecast
Completeness, validity, consistency, uniqueness, timeliness and accuracy — what each one is, and how it shows up as pipeline you can or can't trust.
SECTION 02
Where dirt hides, object by object
The specific failure modes in Leads, Contacts, Accounts, Opportunities and Cases — duplicate clusters, dead records, wrong ownership, double-counted deals.
SECTION 03
The DQ Health Score Card framework
The scoring model behind ForecastGuard, explained so you can grade your own objects and rank them by remediation priority.
SECTION 04
From score to clean
How leading teams move from "we know it's dirty" to a weekly hygiene ritual that keeps the score climbing — and the forecast honest.
The free scan
See your own org's score, not just the benchmark.
The report tells you what good looks like. The free Dirty Data Index scan tells you where you stand — a real DQ Health Score Card across all five core objects, on your own data, with no commitment.
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Your domain hygiene score
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Statistics cited are drawn from third-party industry reporting and are attributed to their original sources (Salesforce; Gartner). They are provided for context and are not Pacific Data Integrators' own measurements. ForecastGuard™ for Salesforce is a Pacific Data Integrators product.