Master Index Standardization Engine Features

The Master Index Standardization Engine provides proven and extensive standardization capabilities to the Sun MDM Suite, and includes the following features:

• Works with Sun Master Index applications and can also be called from other applications, such as Data Integrator, web services, web applications, and so on.

• Uses standardization algorithms based on research at the U.S. Census Bureau, Statistical Research Division (SRD).

• Is highly configurable and can be used to standardize various types of data.

• Supports data sets specific to Australia, France, Great Britain, and the United States by default, and can be extended to support additional locales.

• Processes data using one of the defined locales or using multiple locales.

• Supports a variety of data types, including addresses, person names, businesses, and telephone numbers. Additional data types can be easily added.

• Provides comprehensive person name normalization tables for the four default locales.

• Uses a probability-based mechanism to resolve ambiguity during processing.

• Allows you to apply cleansing rules prior to the standardization processing.

• Performs preprocessing, matching, and postprocessing during the parsing process based on customizable rules.

• Is highly configurable and the standardization and matching logic can be adapted to specific needs. New data types or variants can be created for even more customized processing.

• Supports pluggable standardization sets, so you can define custom standardization processing for most types of data.