1.1.2 Key Features

The following are the key features of EDQ:

• Integrated data profiling, auditing, cleansing and matching

• Browser-based client access

• Ability to handle all types of data (for example, customer, product, asset, financial, and operational)

• Connection to any Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) compliant data sources and targets

• Multi-user project support (role-based access, issue tracking, process annotation, and version control)

• Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) - support for designing processes that may be exposed to external applications as a service

• Designed to process large data volumes

• A single repository to hold data along with gathered statistics and project tracking information, with shared access

• Intuitive graphical user interface designed to help you solve real-world information quality issues quickly

• Easy, data-led creation and extension of validation and transformation rules

• Fully extensible architecture allowing the insertion of any required custom processing