Identity Resolution Daily Links 2008-12-12
[Post from Infoglide] Part Deux: If Only Data Quality Were That Simple
“Applying generic algorithms to data attributes with wildly varying characteristics simply can’t match the accuracy of applying a family of deterministic analytics, each built around specific characteristics of a particular attribute type.”
Data Value Talk: The added value of an integrated customer view
“So it appears that the data itself plays a crucial role in the lack of an integrated customer view. Or more accurately, the better the data - the better the customer view. And the better the matching of customer records across separate systems the better the integrated customer view. So Data Quality and Matching (Identity Resolution) determine in large parts the quality of the integrated customer view and the added value that it delivers.”
Marion Star: Muzzle loading and compensation
“Investigators from the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, posing as gun enthusiasts, twice visited SMS. Those visits consisted primarily of small talk about guns and ammo. McGraw discussed some pistols that he had recently sold and invited one of the investigators to bring in an allegedly defective gun, telling them he would ‘take a look at it.’”
Intelligent Enterprise: ‘Surround Strategy:’ A Prediction for 2009
” Rather than trying to remodel the data warehouse to accommodate fresher and more detailed operational data (near real-time activity in operational systems, process logs, etc.), these data sources will operate in parallel (or horizontally, whichever word you like) as complementary feeds to analytics. It takes too long and is too expensive to expand the data warehouse concept to do this.”
New York State Insurance Department: Cortland Woman Accused of Workers’ Comp Fraud
“Horton is charged with making false statements and submitting false testimony to the Workers’ Compensation Board to receive benefits. She claimed that an April 2006 back injury she suffered while she was a health aide prevented her from working or attending school. Investigators learned that she was attending school full-time.”
Gartner: When is SOA, DOA? When it’s without MDM!
[Andrew White] “Clearly, if every SOA-based application interaction had to incur the costs of data reconciliation, mapping, clean up etc, then the cost of building and maintaining that SOA-based application would exceed what it costs today without SOA. The bottom line: SOA needs MDM to help with the evolution of the information infrastructure.”
The State Journal: Insurance Fraud Unit Wins 45 Convictions This Year
“Since January 2007, the fraud unit has received 1,703 case referrals for review from those in the insurance industry and private citizens. After reviewing the referrals, field investigators have been assigned 397 cases to pursue. During that time, [West Va. Insurance Commissioner Jane] Cline said, 292 criminal cases have been referred to various prosecuting authorities, as well as in-house prosecutors who have been assigned to the unit on a full-time basis. Further, the fraud unit has secured indictments on 84 individuals for 294 felony counts and successfully obtained 73 convictions, including 45 in 2008.”
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