8 Reviewing Matching Results

One of the main principles behind matching in EDQ is that not every match and output decision can be made automatically. Often the fastest and most efficient way to determine if possible matches should be considered as the same, and what their merged output should be (where appropriate), is to look through the matching records manually, and make manual decisions.

EDQ provides two different applications for reviewing match results: Match Review and the Case Management. The review application is chosen as part of the match processor configuration, and determines the way in which the results are generated. For any given processor, therefore, the two applications are mutually exclusive. The selection of the review application also changes some of the options available to the match processor.

It is possible to change the configuration of a match processor at any time, to switch between review applications, but the processor must be re-run before any results are available to the new application.

The review application to be used should be chosen based upon the requirements of the process downstream of the match processor and the strengths of each review application, which are detailed in the following sections: