Information Integration Capabilities

Data Quality

More and more, customer, partner, and operational information inform all key business decisions. Business information needs to be clean: identified, standardized, matched, reconciled, and free of redundancies. IBM information integration solutions provide data quality software that makes it possible.

IBM data quality solutions:

• standardize source data fields, ensuring consistency in the information.
• validate , certify, and enrich common data elements, using trusted data like postal records for name and address information.
• analyze, identify, and enrich multi-cultural names for improved standardization, validation, and matching.
• match together records across or within data sources, providing assurance that duplicate data is removed, and allowing common entities from different sources to be identified and linked together – creating foreign key relationships where previously there were none.
• allow a single record of information to be survived from the best information across sources for each unique entity. This allows a single comprehensive and accurate view of information to be created that spans across source systems.
• These functions can be applied to any type of business entities including customers, products, suppliers, employees, and chart of accounts, and are vital to ensuring high quality information, and ensuring that systems have a comprehensive view of information on your most important business assets.