BusinessName Match Types

The BusinessName match type is designed to help parse, normalize, and phonetically encode a business name. BusinessName matching adds several fields to the object structure and to the match string. If you specify a business name field for blocking, each parsed business name field is added to the blocking query. The corresponding standardization type in the Match Field file for all fields selected for BusinessName matching is also BusinessName. The actual match type assigned to each field varies depending on the type of information in each field.

Table 25 lists the fields created when you select the BusinessName match type for a field along with their corresponding match types in the Match Field file (field_name refers to the name of the field selected for BusinessName matching).

Only specify this type of matching for one business name field; otherwise, the wizard will create duplicate entries in the object structure. If more than one field contains the business name, you can add those fields to the standardization structure in the Match Field file after the wizard creates the configuration files.