Telephone Number Standardization Overview

Processing data using the PhoneNumber data type includes standardizing and matching telephone numbers. The Master Index Standardization Engine can create the parsed and normalized values for free–form telephone data. These values are required for accurate searching and matching. Several configuration files designed specifically to handle telephone data are included to provide processing logic for the standardization process.

In addition, when processing telephone information, you might want to standardize addresses to enable searching against address information. This requires working with the address configuration files described in Rules–Based Address Data Configuration.