Identity Resolution Daily

[Post from Infoglide] Identity Resolution: Taking Off in 2009?

“On February 2nd, the Wall Street Journal ran an article about IBM’s application of its identity resolution technology in government organizations, noting they expect it to generate $1 billion in the next four years. Just 18 months ago, Gartner initially identified entity resolution and analysis (aka identity resolution) as a technology “on the rise” in its analysis of the business intelligence (BI) market.  A year later in July 2008, it had moved from the bottom to near the top of the curve.”

Wall Street Journal: At IBM, New Uses for Old Software

“IBM’s software compares data in various databases and finds suspicious relationships. For example, if several applications for visa extensions had different addresses, but all used the same cellphone number, the system would alert immigration staffers that they might be associates requiring a closer look.”

PostalNewsBlog: Massachusetts carrier charged with workers comp fraud

“According to authorities, in November 2007, McComb allegedly intimidated a former customer who spoke to investigators from USPS regarding McComb’s alleged employment status. The alleged fraudulent activities were initially detected by investigators from the OWCP and USPS who referred the case to the Attorney General’s Office. Authorities allege McComb fraudulently collected payments totaling $25,431.09.”

Gartner: Best of Breed MDM versus Generalist MDM – which is best?

[Andrew White]”Users have to decide what they need to focus on – and this may change over time.  Business drivers may lead to the recognition that “deep MDM” skills are needed first hand to get to grips with very complex product data workflows, but later, a more general approach is needed to master other domains.”

Coalition Against Insurance Fraud: 2008 Insurance Fraud Hall of Shame

“Thousands of employees had no workers’ compensation protection when three men helped sell fake policies to small businesses. The scheme stole at least $70 million in premiums. One injured worker couldn’t afford a prosthetic leg. Another lost his home and marriage. A grandmother lost her home and lived in her car.”

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By Robert Barker, Infoglide Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer

I’m back from the holidays with more insights about identity resolution.

Several times in past posts we’ve compared and contrasted Identity Resolution with other market spaces that it’s sometimes mistaken for, including MDM, data integration, data warehousing, name matching, and data quality. It was worthwhile to differentiate identity resolution, but the next step is to outline the critical requirements that any identity resolution solution has to address.

Below are the requirements for a comprehensive identity resolution solution. They’ve been grouped into four categories: identity matching, relationship detection and resolution, decisioning, and business process integration.

Identity matching
1       similarity (non-exact) matching
2       scrambled data (e.g. street name and street number reversed)
3       needs no special handling of missing data
4       default weightings (e.g. street name versus street number)
5       user-configurable to address unique needs
6       deterministic analytics for multiple attribute types
7       mathematical analytics
8       multiple attribute-specific algorithms invoked as need

Relationship detection/resolution
9       leverage and capture valuable ambiguous identity information
10     deterministically show derivation of detected relationships
11     anonymous resolution

Decisioning
12      user control over decisioning

Business process integration
13       fully integrated end-to-end solution in one product
14       optional live remote access to disparate data sources
15       integrate into existing infrastructures
16       use industry-standard web services and APIs
17       separate repository not mandatory
18       alert-based exception reporting

Products in adjacent spaces like MDM and data quality often address a small subset of these requirements, but the number of integrated offerings that address all of them is a very, very short list!

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[Post from Infoglide] See You at the MDM Summit?

“Big Master Data Management (MDM) issues are swirling around these days, not the least of which is the role of identity resolution. We’ve posted multiple times about MDM, customer data integration (CDI), data quality (DQ), and related topics. People sometimes are unsure about the relationship between identity resolution and these areas. Most of the time, they are complementary. Identity resolution can play a critical and unique role in each case.”

TDWI: Master Data Management is Inevitable… So Get Ready

“Eventually master data management will extend beyond customer and product data into broad enterprise use. As this trend wends its way, the challenge for data professionals is to develop a strategy that addresses both isolated pockets of MDM today (for customer and product data) and broader enterprise use tomorrow (as MDM is applied to employee, patient, claim, supplier, and other business entities).”

b-eye.com - Business Intelligence Network - Blog: James Taylor: First Steps To and Beyond Operational Business Intelligence

“This article outlines some steps organizations can take as they move from ‘traditional’ business intelligence (BI) toward operational business intelligence and enterprise decision management.”

The Bunker Blog: Economic Pressures Affect Retailers In Many Ways

“As retailers, under pressure to sell more, relax their security measures on high ticket (high risk) product, the pressure will be on loss prevention professionals to double, even triple, their efforts to protect this merchandise, and therefore the company’s profits.”

Hub Solution Designs: Experts and Analysts Panel Discussion at MDM Summit

“I’m going to be attending the upcoming MDM Summit in New York on Sunday, 10/19/08 through Tuesday, 10/21/08.I’ll be on an ‘Experts and Analysts Panel’, moderated by Jim Ericson, Editorial Director of DM Review, along with Jill Dyché, Partner & Co-Founder of Baseline Consulting and Aaron Zornes, Chief Research Officer of The MDM Institute.”

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