Features and Benefits
IBM InfoSphere QualityStage and InfoSphere QualityStage for z/OS provide these unique capabilities:
A centralized, enterprise-ready platform for global data quality – enabling cross-organization data quality and providing key capabilities for data governance initiatives
The most powerful, accurate matching available. Based on probabilistic matching technology, easy to set up and maintain, and providing the highest match rates available in the market
An easy-to-use GUI with an intuitive, point-and-click interface for specifying automated data quality processes - data investigation, standardization, matching, and survivorship
Thorough data investigation and analysis process for any kind of free formatted data
Rigorous scientific justification; easy to audit and validate
Worldwide address standardization verification and enrichment capabilities – including Postal Certification modules for the United States, Canada, and Australia.
Domain agnostic data cleansing capabilities including product data, phone numbers, email addresses, birth dates, events, and other comment and descriptive fields
Extensive reporting providing metrics that yield business intelligence about the data and help tune the application for quality assurance
SOA enablement with IBM InfoSphere Information Services Director, allowing you to leverage data quality logic built using the IBM InfoSphere Information Server and publish it as an "always on, available everywhere" service in a SOA – in minutes.
Benefits
Deliver the high quality data required for success in a range of enterprise initiatives including business intelligence, legacy consolidation and master data management
Reduces time and cost to implement CRM, data warehouse/BI, data governance, and other strategic IT initiatives and maximizes their ROI by ensuring their data quality
Construct consolidated customer and household views, enabling more effective cross-selling, up-selling, and customer retention
Help improve customer support and service and helps identify a company's most profitable customers
Provide business intelligence on individuals and organizations for research, fraud detection, and planning
Flexibility to perform these functions directly on the mainframe so that you can:
- Leverage existing mainframe resources in order to maximize the value of your IT investments
- Take advantage of the scalability, security, manageability and reliability of the mainframe
- Add mainframe information integration work load without added z/OS operational costs
