Registering New Data Quality Connectors

Data Quality connector definitions are configured in the Third Party Administration view. You can specify one external application for data matching and a different application for data cleansing for the Universal Connector. You do this by setting the correct input values for each external application.

Note: The vendor parameters in the Siebel application are specifically designed to support multiple vendors in the Universal Connector architecture without the need for additional code. The values of these parameters must be provided by third-party vendors. Typically, these values cannot be changed because specific values are required by each software vendor. For more information about the values to use, see the installation documentation provided by your third-party vendor.

The Deduplication and Data Cleansing business services include a generalized adapter that communicates with the external data quality application through a set of dynamic-link library (DLL) or shared library files.

The DLL Name setting in the Third Party Administration view tells the Siebel application how to load the DLL or shared library. The names of the libraries are vendor-specific, but must follow naming conventions as described in Vendor Libraries. The Siebel application loads the libraries from the locations described in Universal Connector Libraries.

Use the following procedure to register a data quality connector. This topic is a step in Process of Configuring New Data Quality Connectors.

To register a data quality connector

1. Navigate to the Administration - Data Quality screen, then the Third Party Administration view.

2. In the Vendor List, create a new record and complete the necessary fields, as shown in the following table.

Name	Library Name
The name of the vendor. For a data matching connector, the name must match the value specified in the server parameter DeDuplication Data Type. For a data cleansing connector, the name must match the value specified in the server parameter Data Cleansing Type.	The name of the vendor DLL or shared library.