IRS PRIME

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March 25th, 2004
Presented by John Walsh, CEO Located in a HUB
Zone
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Key IRS PRIME Objective
Data is Accurate
Data Quality is a Process!
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Enterprise Data Quality Architecture

• Integrate and manage all existing IRS investments
  in DQ COTS and custom developed tools regardless
  of platform
• Design, test and implement Data Quality processes
  at the data element level for all IRS PRIME
  projects
• All through one graphical process
  interface!

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What is a Data Quality Tool?

• Data Quality tools perform many functions. Here
  is an example of commonly used terms and
  functions
• Parse
• Validate
• Transform
• Augment
• Compare and Match
• Consolidate
• 50 Companies in US and Europe that provide
  address matching software

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Benefits

• Implement technology and develop expertise
  specific to Data Quality
• Provide this resource and approach for Data
  Quality to all constituencies
• Develop data standards, definitions, and metrics
  for Data Quality
• Move to Six Sigma for Data Quality

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Design Integrate Tools Screen
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Design, Test, and Implement Processes Screen
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Design, Test, Implement Business Rules
Logic
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Design, Build Connectors for Data
Integration
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Unique Qualifiers

• Technology
• US Patent Office has notified us that our
  application can be patented in the US and all CPT
  countries
• Microsoft strategic technology partner for Yukon,
  next release of SQL server
• Expertise
• Responsible for bringing 12 DQ products to market
  as an officer of public software company
• Utilized 30 years of expertise to develop better
  approach

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Customer Case Study

• Project 150 million individual customer
  transactions needed to be scrubbed,
  parsed, de-duplicated and consolidated into
• unique customer master records
• DQS completed the project at client site in 7
  business days
• 1 day to install software and set up the
  environment
• 1 day to integrate 3 different COTS ( 26 APIs)
• 3 days to design and test the processes with
  sample data
• (3 processes, 65 steps)
• 2 days to process the 150 million records and
  complete project
• Approximately 25 million unique master records

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DQS Capabilities

• We know data, data quality tools and technology
• We can help you improve the quality of the data
  in each and every one of your systems