Seamless Data Quality for SAP

IBM Information Server Data Quality Module

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With so much relying on the quality of the data in your SAP system, it’s critical to have tools in place that can ensure and improve the accuracy and validity of your data.

The IBM Information Server Data Quality Module is a powerful solution component for certified by SAP for use with SAP Applications, including:

• mySAP Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

• mySAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

• SAP R/3 Enterprise

It offers a variety of functions all designed to enhance the quality of customer, vendor and business partner name and address data.

This data quality module specifically focuses on two common issues with address data: preventing duplicate records and searching with incomplete or erroneous data.

In addition to enhanced quality of address data, The Data Quality Module’s benefits include:

Enhanced name and address search capability that leverages the robust IBM Omnifind search engine. IBM Omnifind provides highly relevant and refined search results with state-of-the-art ranking techniques and advanced linguistic processing.

And support for Unicode data.

The IBM Information Server Data Quality Module is a stand-alone offering that calls WebSphere QualityStage from SAP in real time. QualityStage utilizes a powerful probabilistic matching algorithm that ensures that you’ve got the most accurate match results possible.

All of this happens in an instant – the end user is now empowered to ensure the quality of data in the SAP system. Since the integration is certified by SAP, you can rest assured that it will deliver a safe, seamless solution that you can trust.

Let’s take a look at two functions that demonstrate power of the Data Quality Module: The Duplicate Check function and the Error Tolerant Search.

One of the most common and costly challenges for address management is the presence of duplicate records.

These records often contain misspellings and other erroneous data, which complicate searches and compromise the integrity of the database.

With the Data Quality Module, duplicate checks are conducted as a record is being created or modified.

Here we see a customer record being entered. As the data is entered in to the various fields, the SAP records that are potential matches are identified in the pop-up window.

This information is cross checked with the Duplicate Check Hit List and displayed in for review. Results are listed on a scale of 1 to 100 – representing a numeric weight.

A higher score represents a higher likelihood of a match. The user has complete control for fine tuning the results – they can adjust the thresholds of the search to determine the limits of the weighted score. This allows them to increase or decrease the sensitivity of the match.

Potential duplicates are then easy to identify, preventing the creation of more duplicates and empowering the end user to take an active role in the quality of data in SAP.

The Error Tolerant Search function allows you to find names and addresses even if you only have minimum information upon which to base your search. Your reach into the database is extended.

An error tolerant search can be conducted with only partial information about the record. The information is entered in the Error-Tolerant Search screen.

The search request is processed in real time – with a quick response to the end user.

Again, the search is powered by both the IBM OmniFind search engine as well as IBM Information Server QualityStage. This powerful combination ensures that the search results are the most thorough possible—broad enough to fit the unique uses of the many different functions.

A Hit List showing the located records is displayed on the SAP client interface. We can see that the customer record exists in several variations resulting from typos or common nomenclature preferences.

With all this information available in real time, the user can easily navigate to the appropriate record. In addition to this powerful search, the user is empowered with the information about duplicate records so that the appropriate action can be taken.

In addition to the duplicate check and error-tolerant search functions, the Data Quality Module is designed to be scalable—providing the flexibility to increase the number of real time transactions as you grow.

The IBM Information Server Data Quality Module. Enhance your data. Sharpen your searches.

To learn more, contact your sales rep, or go to ibm.com.