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Similarity Systems & QAS Enhance Data Quality




Garry Moroney
Chief Executive Officer
Similarity Systems

Similarity Systems, a leading supplier of business-focused data quality solutions and QAS, an Experian company, the world leader in address management and data integrity solutions, have announced the integration of QAS? international address validation software as a component in Similarity Systems? data quality management suite, ATHANOR.

ATHANOR is an end-to-end data quality solution that enables enterprises to build and deploy customised data quality management processes that analyse, validate and cleanse all types of data. The partnership with QAS means that out of the box address validation functionality is available as an additional component on the ATHANOR Designer desktop, and can be deployed as part of ATHANOR Runtime and ATHANOR Realtime solutions.

Data quality issues, which include name and address and non-name and address data cleansing and validation, play a major role in some of the biggest issues affecting businesses, such as CRM, corporate accountability and supply chain management strategies. This partnership strengthens ATHANOR?s ability to profile and cleanse name and address information.

With more than forty configurable data quality building blocks or components available on the desktop, ATHANOR empowers users to construct complex data quality rules for customer, financial, product, inventory, asset and all other data types, without resorting to low-level coding.

?Address validation is one important element of any data quality management program,? said Garry Moroney, chief executive officer, Similarity Systems. ?Combining the international address and geocoding capabilities of QAS, with ATHANOR?s toolkit for building and deploying integrated data quality solutions, provides large organisations with a single platform for enterprise-wide data quality management.?

?As the pioneer of address management software, QAS provides Similarity Systems? ATHANOR data quality platform users with instant access to the power of QAS' multi-country address verification engine and reference data in real time, batch or interactive modes,? comments Harry Meikle, managing director, QAS. ?The integration enables businesses to cleanse existing databases and to capture new customer information more accurately, ensuring that organisations are getting the most out of their applications.?

Similarity Systems will ship QAS as an integrated component of the ATHANOR Designer, ATHANOR Runtime and ATHANOR Realtime in the fourth quarter of 2004. The component offers a number of options including address validation for UK, USA, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, France, Australia, Luxembourg and Singapore as well as geocoding for the USA and the UK. The integrated solution also includes a facility for appending postal address information for all of the countries above.

About Similarity Systems Similarity Systems (www.similaritysystems.com) is a leading provider of business-focused data quality management software. The company?s flagship offering, ATHANOR?, is a patented suite of data quality software products that enables organisations to rapidly identify and correct data quality problems based around an end-to-end data quality management and improvement process. From extraction and upfront data quality analysis, to cleansing and transformation ATHANOR is a powerful and easy to use solution that quickly leads to tangible results.

The product handles all the key functions of a data quality enhancement strategy including auditing, matching, standardisation, consolidation and reporting. With its Designer, Runtime and Realtime products ATHANOR enables businesses to easily integrate data quality rules into their information technology infrastructure for ongoing data quality management. Leading organisations in financial services, utilities, telecommunications, manufacturing & distribution and government use ATHANOR to guarantee data quality in customer relationship management (CRM), business intelligence (BI), Data Warehouse and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.






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