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Data Quality Center Ataccama Data Quality Center (DQC) is an essential tool for complex data quality management. DQC is designed not only to evaluate, monitor and manage the quality of data in different information systems, but also to prevent incorrect data from entering such systems in the first place. Ataccama DQC is bundled with a specific set of business rules and localized dictionaries. Banks, insurance and telecommunication companies choose Ataccama DQC solution for easy implementation and tangible business gains.
Typical Data Quality Problems
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Poor data quality within enterprise business systems is infamous for creating a large pool of never-ending issues. This negatively affects timeliness and accuracy of customer communication. In addition, complications may arise from internal systems often implementing incomplete or conflicting business rules, different scoring and validation methods, or inflexible data requirements that do not adapt to specific situations, such as entering identification attributes of foreign persons.
Data Quality Center is a technology designed to support complex Data Quality Management and Data Governance initiatives in a large organization environment.
From the very beginning, the technology that Ataccama DQC is based on was developed to address a wide range of data quality issues. This includes improved customer identification processes, vehicle and address identification, and processing using additional custom business criteria and rules.
Low data quality is one of the reasons why a reliable identification process is not easy to implement. Some solutions take a simplified approach based on specific identifier keys such as social security number, or legal entity identification number, but these are attributes which very often suffer from human data input errors. In the case of person identification keys, the problem is further complicated by either the unavaiability of such identification keys in other regions or by legal limitations against universal use.
Central administration of rules and required data quality levels allow managing data quality consistently over all systems, data sources and points of input through which data enters the organization.
DQC allows users to quickly explore data quality, identify priority areas, conduct detailed data quality analysis for specified areas of interest, define rules and automated processes for data quality improvement, and supports organizational processes for data quality management.
DQC is ultra flexible, with a powerful built-in business rules engine. DQC is architected for high performance and scalability enabling it to process huge volumes of data quickly.
DQC provides functionality to support the entire Data Quality management cycle: DQ Assessment to determine the scope of problems, Data Cleansing to improve quality of individual records, Data Enrichment to complete the data using external data sources, Match & Merge to correctly match related records and create a representative “golden record” and DQ Firewall to prevent low quality data from enter the systems.
Ataccama DQC can be used for the following tasks: Data quality control in transactional and analytical applications. Data cleansing and unification in data system migrations. Data quality assurance in software integration projects. Quality improvements in address and contact information. Data cleansing and unification of customer data for client identification purposes. Customer profile validation and correction of incomplete data records. Customer input data validation in self-service online applications. Data profiling as a part of data integration project analysis.
Modules
Address Parsing, cleansing, and identification of address records in any form. Party Data quality, identification, unification of physical persons and legal entities. Contact A contact information quality management module. Household Combines client identification, addresses and additional information to identify households. Car A vehicle data identification module. Reporting A comprehensive data quality reporting and monitoring module.
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Profiling Advanced data profiling, classification and business rule management. Profiling allows users to analyse large sets of data in near-interactive mode.
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Ataccama DQC is built on a component architecture designed to be customizable and is shipped with ready to use data quality modules such as Profiling, Monitoring and Reporting, together with business-task specific modules such as Address, Party, Contact, Household and Car. Interface modules - Batch, Online and Adapters - allow for easy integration into existing IT infrastructure.
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Monitoring A module containing scoring and DQI functions.
Batch Interface A data interface for batch processing mode.
Online Interface A data interface for on-demand processing mode, including web service methods and implementation of “data quality firewall” functionality.
Adapters Over 600 MDC Adapters can be used to provide connectivity to systems where no standard interface can be used, such as legacy or large ERP systems.
Unique Profiling For fast data analysis DQC utilizes advanced semantic profiling functionality.
Modern & Powerful Ataccama DQC uses parallel data processing methods to ensure scalability. Furthermore, it enables incremental data processing in both batch and on-demand online processing modes.
Product Features Data Quality Ataccama DQC is designed to be used as the main hub for data quality management within your organization. DQC delivers centralized management for business rules and data quality, all controlled from one location. Whether it is external master data systems or other data sources, DQC enables data from such sources to be integrated and managed under one data quality platform. Flexibility and Open Standards The solution is easily configured using bundled administration applications. Operation does not require any external tools or other 3rd party applications. DQC is platform independent, based on open standards (XML, Web Services), and uses data models portable across many existing database platforms.
Advanced Core Functionality The core system functionality is comprised of a set of algorithms capable of hierarchical unification by identifier keys irrespective of internal data structures. Utilizing the determined keys DQC can perform approximate matching in record unification. Data Enrichment with External Sources DQC easily taps into external data sources to retrieve records such as addresses in billing databases. DQC utilizes name, organization, academic titles and other dictionaries to parse and validate input data. This functionality can be extended with custom dictionaries such as phone number lists or other dictionaries.
About Ataccama Ataccama Corporation is an international software company that prides itself in delivering cutting edge technology used for Data Quality and Master Data Management. Leading financial, commercial and government organizations choose Ataccama technologies for its proven ability to execute and deliver real business benefits.
Cost Effective Ataccama DQC delivers rich functionality and easy implementation for surprisingly low cost. In addition, by leveraging modern platforms and code optimization techniques this solution requires a significantly less powerful platform than that of our competitors.
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