Acuate Dedupliction
Fastest Way to Finding All Your Duplicates
With Acuate’s deduplication technology, finding duplicate records is made easy, fast and accurate. Whether you want to deduplicate contact, customer, product or financial information in the UK or international, our algorithms enable you to configure the process precisely to your needs. Duplicate information is a nuisance, you can waste costs by having duplicate mailings in direct marketing or e-mail campaigns, assign incorrect products to order lines or send duplicate payments – the list of problems with duplicate data is endless – all with a very tangible cost. Having a system that easily identifies duplicates, automatically removes or merges then can save substantial costs and make your organisation more efficient.
Duplicate Identification Made Easy
Our deduplication and matching wizard takes you through all the steps required to make identification simple and provides a comprehensive set of options to manipulate performance and to manipulate the results.
Use any fields to match duplicates with – you aren’t restricted to any specific types of information. Use default settings to configure the process of identification or for more control configure the entire process. Decide how each field is matched by setting parameters on a field-by-field basis, also add weights to place bias towards information that is important to you. Choose matching algorithms that are most suitable for your data.
Duplicate Quality
Quality is a function of the matching algorithms used to identify duplicates. Select default methods or precisely fine tune the matching process to your requirements. The matching process allows you to set algorithms that are effective for any data – every piece of information can have its own matching algorithm hence maximising the quality of duplicates found (i.e. duplicates that are really duplicates and not false positives.) This saves time when deciding what to do with the duplicates, as you have real duplicates to look at.
Performance
Indexes are provided to speed up the process of identification. Deduplication processes are quadratic in nature, i.e. comparing 2000 records with 2000 records takes four times longer than comparing 1000 records with a 1000 records. Indexing provides a way of substantially reducing the number of comparisons made with little or no reduction in the number of real duplicates found. Use the standard indexes or configure your own (particularly useful for large data sets.)
Eliminating or Merging Duplicates (Automation)
After duplicates have been identified, you may want to (i) update records for common information; or (ii) create a single record (a ‘golden record’) and delete the rest. These processes can be either undertaken manually or automated. Fields can be merged according to several different algorithms – this can occur before a manual check is performed or if you are confident about the process, then they can be fully automated. |
