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Using Data Matching (Deduplication)
Data matching, sometimes described as deduplication, identifies possible matches for account, contact, and prospect records based on match fields defined in Siebel Tools and administrator-defined matching preferences. After potential duplicates are identified, the administrator can use the Data Quality Administration views to merge the duplicate profiles together manually. For more information about administrator-defined matching preferences, see Applying Siebel Data Quality Settings. For more information about merging, see Merging Duplicate Records.
Data matching functionality is provided by the Siebel Data Quality Matching Server and the Siebel Data Quality Universal Connector. These product modules provide real-time or batch-mode processing, however, each process handles duplicates differently:
- In real-time mode, users are prompted when entering a new record that matches another record or when saving changes to an existing record that matches another record. For more information about real-time mode, see Real-Time Mode.
- In batch mode, the application identifies potentially duplicate records and presents those records to the data administrator for resolution in the Data Quality Administration views. For more information about batch mode, see Batch Mode.
NOTE: You can perform data matching without data cleansing enabled. Data matching does not necessarily require enabling data cleansing; however, the quality of the match results can vary with cleansing enabled versus with cleansing disabled, depending on the matching engine used. Some vendors use algorithms that use data cleansing, while others do not.
For more information about the Siebel Data Quality product modules that use data matching, see Siebel Data Quality Matching Server and Siebel Data Quality Universal Connector.
To use data matching (deduplication) functionality, you must first perform the following tasks:
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Siebel Data Quality Administration Guide Published: 15 May 2003 |