Integrity: Matching Customer/Vendors

timwalsh · Post by **timwalsh** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 2:08 pm

Hello World,

What people using out their as their Master Lists for Customer and Vendors (Companies, not individuals).

In Integrity, you have the Investigation and Standardization, which is essential preping the data for the matching process (probabalistic matching). My question is how do most folks get their master lists that they use to do the probablistic matching against?

We have investigated a few options including D&B and some other master lists. I've also been a part of projects where we created the master lists from scratch (was very time consuming).

I just wanted to see what the rest of the world was up to!

Cheers,

Tim

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed Jun 25, 2003 9:28 pm

I have seen one pilot where they used DataStage to assemble the master lists and prepare these into the fixed-width file format required by INTEGRITY. Can't give you details, as I've lost touch with them. I guess if I hear from them again, or someone from there reads this post, then we can get more details.