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R -- SOFTWARE FOR DATA CLEANUP AND DATA VALIDATION. SOL K00982300001 DUE 112098 POC Carl Hotubbee, 505-248-6307 and Mona Infield, 505-248-6967 The Bureau of Indian Affairs is seeking software tool to be used for data cleanup and data validation. The software tool shall have the following capabilities: All products shall be able to run on MVS, UNIX, NT, and Client Server platforms; Product can build keys between individuals, business and other relationship regardless of name and address, (i.e., relationship between person and business, etc); Identify all relationships within the data; Able to use all domains; Ability to parse and match free form text fields and identify all relationships within the fields while breaking fields down to component parts; To tailor the matching application to the specific business rules of the customer so that the highest data quality can be achieved; Utilizes probabilistic matching; To automatically adjust weights based on data quality; Use external files and use them for matching as well as appending missing information; Incorporates the use of NYSIIS and Soundex phonetic technology; bility to address mixed domain fields, (i.e., information that crosses multiple fields with each field having different domain. The technology must be able to break each piece of information that crosses the fields and understand the correct meaning of each work such as no misrepresentaiton exists (100% visibility to the data); Achieve data quality in excess of 98%; Match to allow de-dup of one to many, many to one and many to many relationships; Has pre-built investigation, standardization; Matching and output procedures, especially for more than name and address structures; Product does not require any external coding in order to achieve 98% data quality; Able to automatically compute and adjust match weighting based on the frequency (or rarity) of individual data values within fields used for matching, (i.e., if matching on name as a criteria have the product automatically recognize the uniqueness of the last name Begay vs. Smith. The product would automatically give the match weight to Begay a higher value the last name of Smith); Product rules are both parameter and table drived for easy maintainability. No code must be compiled for the data re-engineering application to be developed; Applications can be developed on a one platform and can be ported and run on any of the other platforms; Product can produce platform specific job streams, MVS, JCL, UNIX Shell Script; Product is modular and allows for the integration of an pre-existing or outside process or application at any step of the re-engineering effort; Product has online capabilities and must be a integral function of the product (callable and realtime capability). Please send product information, cost, hardware requirements and operating sytem requirements to: Office of Information Resources Management, Applications Support Branch, Attn: Mona Infield, 505 Gold Ave SW, 6th Floor, Box 888, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87103. Posted 10/28/98 (W-SN266385). (0301)

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