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Finding Me
Many people have many names and addresses. So have I. A search for me within Danish reference sources in the iDQ tool gives the following result: Green T is positive in the Danish Telephone Books. Red...
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Social MDM and Systems of Engagement
Social Master Data Management has been an interest of mine the last couple of years and last week I have tried to reach out to others in exploring this new era of Master Data Management by creating a...
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How to Avoid Losing 5 Billion Euros
Two years ago I made a blog post about how 5 billion Euros were lost due to bad identity resolution at European authorities. The post was called Big Time ROI in Identity Resolution. In the carbon trade...
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Deduplication vs Identity Resolution
When working with data matching you often finds that there basically is a bright view and a dark view. Traditional data matching as seen in most data quality tools and master data management solutions...
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Staying in Doggerland
Currently I’m travelling a lot between my present home in London, United Kingdom and Copenhagen, Denmark where I have most of my family and where the iDQ headquarter is. When flying between London and...
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Business Entity Identifiers
The least cumbersome way of uniquely identifying a business partner being a company, government body or other form of organization is to use an externally provided number. However, there are quite a...
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Addressing Digital Identity
A physical address has traditionally been a core element of doing identity resolution. Stating a name and an address is the most widespread way of telling with which person or which company we are...
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Fighting Identity Fraud with Identity Fraud
I have earlier had issues with SEO agencies posting comments on this blog in their quest to help data quality tool vendors in getting better search rank for data quality related terms. Example here....
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The New Year in Identity Resolution
You may divide doing identity resolution into these categories: Hard core identity check Light weight real world alignment Digital identity resolution Hard Core Identity Check Some business processes...
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Future Identities
Recently I stumbled upon a report called Future Identities in the UK. The purpose of the report is to provide the government in the UK insight into how identities of citizens will develop over the next...
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Data Quality Vendors Beware of SEO Agencies
As reported in the post Fighting Identity Fraud with Identity Fraud and experienced with the post 255 Reasons for Data Quality Diversity I have seen several sloppy attempts of link building from SEO...
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Making sense with Social MDM
A few days ago Jeff Jonas of IBM made a new blog post called Master Data Management (MDM) vs. Sensemaking. Herein Jeff Jonas ponders the differences in the data matching algorithms we use in...
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Multi-Channel Data Matching
Most data matching activities going on are related to matching customer, other rather party, master data. In today’s business world we see data matching related to party master data in those three...
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Call me on Phone, Mobile or Skype
When calling people in order to have a long distance conversation there are three main ways today: The landline phone, which have been around since the 19th century and penetrated most homes and...
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Know Your (Foreign Luxury Bag) Customer
A story featured a lot in the media the last days is the incident where one of richest women on the planet, Oprah Winfrey, was told that she couldn’t afford the handbag she wanted to look at in a...
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Hierarchical Data Matching
A year ago I wrote a blog post about data matching published on the Informatica Perspective blog. The post was called Five Future Data Matching Trends. One of the trends mentioned is hierarchical data...
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Know Your Fan
A variant of the saying “Know Your Customer” for a football club will be “Know Your Fan” and indeed fans are customers when they buy tickets. If they can. FC Copenhagen cruised into stormy waters when...
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Matching for Multiple Purposes
In a recent post on the InfoTrellis blog we have the good old question in data matching about Deterministic Matching versus Probabilistic Matching. The post has a good walk through on the topic and...
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Entity Resolution and Big Data
The Wikipedia article on Identity Resolution has this catch on the difference between good old data matching and Entity Resolution: ”Here are four factors that distinguish entity resolution from data...
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Our Double Trouble
Using the royal we is usually only for majestic people, but as a person with a being in two countries at the same time, I do sometimes feel that I am we. So, this morning we once again found our way to...
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