Bateleur Software Solutions is offering companies an opportunity to get their data files checked out in a series of free two-day challenges aimed at identifying problems such as duplicate records and fraudulent clients.
Laura Selmer-Olsen, Search Software America (SSA) product manager of Bateleur Software Solutions, says the company`s identity data specialists will use SSA`s Data Clustering Engine software to make problem areas visible.
"This is an opportunity for companies to significantly improve on their current internal or external data matching processes, as well as to discover new information from existing data," she says. "It`s a quick way to establish the status of the data, and to see relationships and duplications which are not typically visible."
Organisations which take up the offer will be required to submit a portion of their data files to Bateleur and select from one of many standard sets of population rules, search strategies and match purposes. A report of the matched and grouped data will be presented to the organisation, and Bateleur guarantees data privacy.
This data matching and analysis service is ideal for any company with the following needs:
* To screen customer or account data against blacklists.
* To check compliance by matching files to discover unmatched or irregular records.
* To identify duplicate records in customer files or prospect lists.
* To match prospect lists to customer bad credit, fraud and 'do not mail` files.
* To group data by household or delivery point.
* To match new account applications to customer and campaign files.
* To group incident, address and person of interest data prior to fraud investigation.
"It`s not a question of whether we will find duplications, but rather one of how many we`ll find," Selmer-Olsen says. "The software also highlights problems with the process of taking on new records."
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