DataFlux Data Management Studio: Entity Resolution
The need to link and consolidate entity information with a high level of confidence is critical to data management initiatives. Information about the same customer, product or employee may exist in multiple databases, in many unique forms. The challenge is to find and resolve similar records in different data sources.
Entity resolution measures the degree of similarity between two data elements, often based on weighted matching of records. By defining these unique instances, the information can be assigned to a single, consolidated record or flagged for manual intervention or further processing.
Entity resolution has traditionally been a difficult task, as there is rarely an exact correspondence between all information every data field. Intelligent matching technology can reconcile this data and accurately integrate multiple records. DataFlux Data Management Studio offers industry-leading matching technology that enables accurate entity resolution across multiple data sources. With this technology, you can:
- Identify individuals across multiple data sources from incomplete and non-obvious relationships
- Intelligently manage entity resolution routines through advanced fuzzy-matching technology
- Create multi-record clusters, confidence scores and scatter plots to determine potential clusters
- Perform row-level matching
- Analyze the suitability of data elements as potential identifying attributes
- Recognize when slight variations suggest a connection between records
- Integrate data into a single warehouse or maintain separate sources with relationships maintained in a single master record
High-Quality Data to Enable Governance, Risk and Compliance Initiatives
Data Management Studio provides an intuitive design, development and navigation environment for entity resolution. Through the DataFlux patented matching technology and identification logic, you can easily uncover hidden relationships between various entities, including customers, products, suppliers, parts and employees. DataFlux entity resolution technology is a key enabler of data governance, risk and compliance initiatives.
DataFlux technology allows both business and IT users to take advantage of advanced entity resolution techniques and technology, including:
- Identification of false-positive and false-negative matches
- Industry-leading fuzzy matching technology
- Non-obvious relationship matching
- Natural language data relationships
- The ability to use a combination of deterministic and probabilistic matching approaches