AO Business Match

Business name

(Required) Company name used for matching.

• Default: blank

Business name 2

(Optional) Alternate company name that can also be used for cross-field matching (for example, Lotus & IBM). Allows for different companies to be matched to either field.

• Default: blank

Business keyword

(Optional) Firm keyword to allow for matching to be qualified based on special field (for example, BCBS of MA vs. BCBS of ME) The ME/MA would be in its own field.

• Default: blank

Address type

Specify whether input address is Full address or Component address.

• Default: full address

Address1

Required if Address type is Full address. First line of unparsed address.

• Default: blank

Address2

Optional if Address type is Full address. Second line of unparsed address.

• Default: blank

Street number

Required if Address type is Component address. Street number (123 E Main Street NW Apt 101).

• Default: blank

Street predir

Required if Address type is Component address. Street predirectional (123 E Main Street NW Apt 101).

• Default: blank

Street name

Required if Address type is Component address. Street name (123 E Main Street NW Apt 101).

• Default: blank

Street suffix

Required if Address type is Component address. Street suffix (123 E Main Street NW Apt 101).

• Default: blank

Street postdir

Required if Address type is Component address. Street postdirectional (123 E Main Street NW Apt 101).

• Default: blank

Suite/Apt #/Bldg

Required if Address type is Component address. Suite/apartment number (123 E Main Street NW Apt 101).

• Default: blank

City

(Required) City.

• Default: blank

State

(Required) State.

• Default: blank

ZIP

(Required) ZIP Code.

• Default: blank

Phone

(Optional) Telephone number or alternate input field.

• Default: blank

URL

(Optional) Web address. Alternate input field can be specified.

• Default: blank

Record ID

(Optional) Field containing the unique record ID.

• Default: blank

Address1

(Required) First line of unparsed address.

• Default: blank

Address2

Optional. Second line of unparsed address.

• Default: blank

Street number

(Required) Street number (123 E Main Street NW Apt 101).

• Default: blank

Street predir

(Required) Street predirectional (123 E Main Street NW Apt 101).

• Default: blank

Street name

(Required) Street name (123 E Main Street NW Apt 101).

• Default: blank

Street suffix

(Required) Street suffix (123 E Main Street NW Apt 101).

• Default: blank

Street postdir

(Required) Street postdirectional (123 E Main Street NW Apt 101).

• Default: blank

Suite/Apt #/Bldg

(Required) Suite/apartment number (123 E Main Street NW Apt 101).

• Default: blank

City

(Required) City.

• Default: blank

State

(Required) State.

• Default: blank

ZIP

(Required) ZIP Code.

• Default: blank

Phone 2
Phone 3

(Optional) Telephone number or alternate input field.

• Default: blank

URL 2
URL 3

(Optional) Web address. Alternate input field can be specified.

• Default: blank

Business score

Match threshold for business name field after any optional business adjustments (described below) are taking into account.

• Default: Medium-Tight (80)

Match nicknames

Allows for personal names in a firm to be standardized. For example, in Liz Smith Enterprises versus Elizabeth Smith Enterprises, Liz and Elizabeth would be treated as identical.

• Default: no

Ethnic nickname match

If selected, matches less common, but valid nicknames (such as Sean/John). Unwanted nicknames can be removed by adding a "remove" entry to the Name alias table.

• Default: no

Initials

Recover match points if Initial matches a name (for example, J Robin Smith Inc versus Jonathon Robert Smith, Inc).

• Default: Treat as Similar (75)

Acronyms

Assign acronym matches a specific score for their part of the match (for example, International Machine Parts versus IMP).

• Default: Treat as Similar (75)

Abbreviations

Recover match points due to an abbreviation identified by pattern rather than known value (for example, Halbert Construction Contractors versus Hlbrt Construction Contractors).

• Default: Treat as Similar (75)

Missing words

Recover match points due to missing or disjoint words (for example, Halston Construction Contractors versus Halston Contractors).

• Default: Treat as Similar (75)

Word match threshold

Set minimum similarity threshold to consider any pair of words "the same."

• Default: (61)

Keyword score

Match threshold for business keyword field after optional business Keyword adjustments (described below) are taken into account.

• Default: blank

Match blank keyword

Specifies method for matching blank business keyword input field. Options are:

• Blanks Never Match: if either or both records have blank field, they will not match.

• Blank vs. Blank Only: if both records have blank field, they will match. If only one is blank, they will not match.

• Blank vs. Non Blank Only: if only one record has blank field, they will match. If both have blank field, they will not match.

• Both One Blank and Both Blanks Match: matches either case; one or both records with a blank field for Business keyword.

• Default: Blank vs. Blank Only.

Match abbreviations

Allows for variations in the business keyword field (for example, MISS vs. MISSISSIPPI to be considered an exact match as a case of abbreviation).

• Default: no

Address score

Match threshold for address fields, set globally for all address components.

• Default: Tight (88)

Street number score

Optional match threshold for street number field.

• Default: blank

Street name score

Optional match threshold for street name field.

• Default: blank

Suite score

Optional match threshold for apt/suite # field.

• Default: blank

Simple street numbers

If selected, 101A and 101 Main Street are treated as identical.

• Default: no

Substring match on suite number

If selected, increases flexibility in matching of apt/suite # by allowing substring matches such as 10 vs. 101.

• Default: no

Match PO Box/Street

If selected, allows for records where one address is a PO Box and the other is a street address to be considered a match (Y/N) when the ZIP Codes are the same. If enabled, this has an independent segmentation (ZIP Code only) than the one set by the Segment address data by parameter.

• Default: no

PO Box match score

Alternate match threshold for business field if Match PO Box to street is set to "Y". You may want a higher match threshold for PO Box/Street matching then when matching the same address format. This ensures tighter matches to reduce false positives when PO Box and Street are alike.

• Default: blank

Phone score

Match threshold for Phone field.

• Default: Exact (100)

URL score

Match threshold for URL field.

• Default: Exact (100)

Match only within segment

If selected, data will be compared solely within the segment as defined below.

• Default: yes

Segment data by

Specifies method for defining sort and comparison minimums for address data. Options are:

• ZIP

• ST_NAME (ZIP + Street Name)

• ST_NUMBER (ZIP + Street Number)

• ZIP+ST_NAME+ST_NUMBER (ZIP + Street Name + Street Number) (Default)

• Custom (specify custom field below)

Street name letters

The number of letters of the street name to be used in address data segmentation. Ignored when segment type is Custom.

• Default: 3

Street number digits

The number of digits of the street number to be used in address data segmentation. Ignored when segment type is Custom.

• Default: 3

Custom segment

Optional. If Segment data by is Custom, the field containing the segment key.

• Default: blank

Limit segment

Turns on segmentation limits for all active match criteria.

• Default: off

Max segment size

If Limit segment is selected, specifies maximum number of records compared in a single comparison group. The default setting allows for nearly-unlimited segment size. If you want to limit segment size to avoid runaway computation, potentially at the expense of missing a few record matches, set this to a lower value like 1000.

• Default: 20000

Output component match IDs

If selected, outputs IDs showing the match groups for each match logic in addition to the consolidated result.

• Default: no

Output match score

If selected, outputs the overall score from the match records as a percentage between 1-100.

• Default: no

Output match info

If selected, outputs additional Match information. "Y" will generate Match Type, Group Counts/Order/Rank, Unique No., HOH Flag at the finest level. "All" will generate the same information at all levels as determined by the criteria selected (for example, Address, Phone, Email).

• Default: N

Source

Field containing the logical description for input data source. This is usually defined in AO Define Source.

• Default: blank

Priority

Field containing Match Rank Priority value, typically assigned using AO Define Source. Determines a record's position in a match group.

• Default: blank

Suppress flag

Field containing suppression definition for a source (value should be Y or N)

• Default: blank

Internal dedupe flag

Field containing a Y/N flag indicating whether or not data from a particular source should be compared against itself (deduped) or solely against other sources. As a general rule, master databases are not internally deduped whereas update files are.

• Default: blank

Compare sources not internally deduped

If a matching process has more than one source with the internal dedupe field set to "N", selecting this will compare the two sources.

• Default: yes

Random priority

Uses random sorting as final tie-breaker. This option may generate different results for each run. If this is option is not selected, the final tie-breaker is the input record order.

• Default: no

Tie-breaker field 1

The first field used to break priority ties.

• Default: blank

Order 1

If ASCENDING, then lower values of Tie-breaker 1 field will have higher priority.

• Default: ASCENDING

Tie-breaker field 2

The second field used to break priority ties.

• Default: blank

Order 2

If ASCENDING, then lower values of Tie-breaker 2 field will have higher priority.

• Default: ASCENDING

Tie-breaker field 3

The third field used to break priority ties.

• Default: blank

Order 3

If ASCENDING, then lower values of Tie-breaker 3 field will have higher priority.

• Default: ASCENDING

Parallelism level

Set to the lesser of the number of CPU cores on the Execution Server, or the number of threads configured in the project in which the macro is embedded.

• Default: 1

Optimize for large segments

If you receive warnings like "Window Compare segment size for value (06828EAS3135) has exceeded 2000," enable this option. Comparing large candidate groups may reduce matching efficiency. Selecting this option increases the number of records that can be sent to a matching process without slowing processing.

• Default: no

Name alias table

Path and name of optional DLD table used to augment or override the alias values defined within the macro. The table must be of the following form.

where ALIAS and STANDARD are Text fields and REMOVE is Boolean. In the example above, Peg and Margie are defined as new aliases for Margaret (a blank REMOVE field is treated as FALSE), while the TRUE value in the REMOVE field explicitly suppresses Jon as an alias for John.

• Default: blank

Business alias table

Path and name of optional DLD table used to augment or override the alias values defined within the macro. The table must be of the following form.

where ALIAS and STANDARD are Text fields and REMOVE is Boolean. In the example above, Paving and Hotmix are defined as new aliases for Asphalt (a blank REMOVE field is treated as FALSE), while the TRUE value in the REMOVE field explicitly suppresses Reproduction as an alias for Copying.

• Default: blank

Business noise table

Path and name of optional DLD table used to add additional "noise" words for Firm matching. The table must be a single-column DLD table of the folowing form.

where WORDS is a Text field. The example above shows data that shouldn’t contribute to the match score because it is contextually meaningless. If you are matching financial institutions, word BANK could be a "noise" word.

• Default: blank