Activating Oracle Enterprise Data Quality Rules

By default, Oracle Enterprise Data Quality does not find matches with the following search constraints: Contact First and Last Name only or Account Name and Site only. A match is only made when addresses are supplied for the contact or account. To find matches with Contact First and Last Name only or Account Name and Site only without addresses, you must activate a rule within Oracle Enterprise Data Quality.

This task is a step in Process of Configuring Oracle Enterprise Data Quality to Find Contact and Address Matches.

To activate Oracle Enterprise Data Quality rules

1. In Oracle Enterprise Data Quality, navigate to Director, then open the following project: EDQ-CDS.

2. Open the following processes:

   • Individual Match - Real-Time

   • Individual Match - Batch

3. For each process, open the Match Individuals step, then click the Match icon to open the match rules.

4. Select the checkbox to activate the following rules:

   • [I010U] Script full name exact; no address. Set the value to 65.

   • [I020U] Name exact; no address. Set the value to 65.

5. Repeat each Step 2 through Step 4 for the following processes:

   • Account Entity Match - Real-Time

   • Entity Match - Batch

   The rule returns a score of only 60 there is a match on Account Name and Site fields.

6. Save the project.

7. Restart Oracle Enterprise Data Quality services and the Real-time START ALL jobs.