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About Siebel Data Cleansing

Data cleansing, sometimes described as standardization or data enhancement, modifies account, contact, and prospect records based on cleansing fields defined in Siebel Tools and administrator-defined cleansing preferences.

Data cleansing functionality is provided through third-party software using the Siebel Data Quality (SDQ) Universal Connector; it is not provided by the Siebel Data Quality (SDQ) Matching Server. The SDQ Universal Connector can support real-time and batch-mode processing.

• In real-time mode, data is modified when a user tries to save a new or modified record back to the database. For more information about real-time mode, see Working with Data Cleansing and Data Matching in Real-Time and Batch Modes.
• In batch mode, you as the administrator, can select the candidate data set based on specified constraints. You can choose to cleanse the whole database or a set of records by setting a search criteria. For more information about the search functionality, see SDQ Matching Server Rule Modification. For more information about batch mode, see Working with Data Cleansing and Data Matching in Real-Time and Batch Modes.

NOTE:  You can perform data cleansing without enabling data matching.

For more information about configuring data, see Data Quality Configuration Options and Preconfigured SDQ Universal Connector Properties for Firstlogic Applications.