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Data Quality Products for Data Matching and Data Cleansing

The data quality products available for performing data quality functions within Siebel CRM enterprise and Oracle Customer Hub are divided into two categories:

• Data quality products that are embedded into Siebel CRM enterprise and Oracle Customer Hub
• Data quality products that use an open connector to connect to third-party data quality vendors

Embedded Data Quality products

The data quality products that are embedded into Siebel CRM and Oracle Customer Hub for data matching and cleansing are:

• Oracle Data Quality Matching Server. Provides real-time and batch data matching functionality using licensed third-party Informatica Identity Resolution software with functionality from Informatica Identity Resolution. For more information, see Oracle Data Quality Matching Server.
• Oracle Data Quality Address Validation Server. Provides address validation and standardization functionality using licensed third-party Informatica Identity Resolution software with functionality from Informatica Identity Resolution. For more information, see Oracle Data Quality Address Validation Server.

Open Connector to Third-Party Data Quality Vendors

The Universal Connector provides real-time and batch data matching functionality and data cleansing functionality, as long as the associated third-party software also supports data cleansing.

NOTE:  In previous releases, Universal Connector was known as SDQ Universal Connector.

If using a third-party data quality vendor for data matching, then Siebel Data Quality is mandatory (since Siebel Data Quality has the underlying infrastructure for enabling data quality). Integration between the Siebel application and the third-party data quality vendor is not possible without Siebel Data Quality.

Siebel Data Quality is a user based license, containing the underlying infrastructure and business services for enabling data quality. All Siebel CRM data quality users must license data quality at the user level using Siebel Data Quality.

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