Combat of Duplicate Data, Who is the Survivor?
One foremost objective of implementing Master Data hub is to identify and resolve duplicate customer records. This is a crucial step towards achieving single version of truth about customer information...
View ArticleImprove Matching by Avoiding Apple to Orange Comparison
Recently Henrik Liliendahl Sørensen (@hlsdk) wrote a blog post where he discusses the data matching challenges involved while dealing with small scale business owners. Unlike individual customers and...
View ArticleBigger the Data Set, Better the Results!?
My Klout score took a huge plunge in last couple of days due to my increased activity in social media. While 60 odd friends of mine wished me via facebook on my birthday (which by the way has become a...
View ArticleFive Key Factors in Architecting a Master Data Solution
Originally published on Hub Designs Magazine May 2012 Over the last few years, Master Data has been recognized as one of the most important types of business information to be managed. Organizations...
View ArticleDude, Why Is Your Name So Long?
Seems like a good punch line for my life! If you have one of those long names that people are always struggling to pronounce and spell, welcome to my world. I frequently collaborate with my colleagues...
View ArticleDe-duplication Part 1: Deterministic Matching Approach
Data matching of party data is at the heart of a MDM implementation. De-duplication process as we know it, is a key activity in MDM and brings tons of challenges. One of the major dilemmas is to...
View ArticleDe-duplication Part 2: Probabilistic Matching Approach
In Part 1 of this blog series on de-duplication, I wrote about Deterministic Matching approach. This blog post looks into Probabilistic Matching. I will briefly summarize the key highlights of this...
View Article5 Ways Data Matching Is Used In MDM Implementation
In his recent blog post, Henrik Liliendahl Sørensen touched on the topic of data matching. He highlighted the considerations around where data matching should be done. I am a big proponent of avoiding...
View ArticleMDM Matching – Are You Asking the Right Question?
An odd request came in last week when a prospective customer asked us about a benchmark on the percentage of duplicates we can find for them using MDM. In this blog, I wanted to touch base on few key...
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