Infoglide Blog

Technology writer Chris Calnan’s story opened with a comment about Infoglide that nicely sums up the evolution of the broader market for identity resolution and entity analytics: “The market may have finally caught up with Infoglide Software Corp.’s technology.” While identity resolution technology has evolved rapidly over the past decade, its market visibility only emerged [...]

By John Talburt, PhD, CDMP, Director, UALR Laboratory for Advanced Research in Entity Resolution and Information Quality (ERIQ) In my March 25, 2009 post “The Myth of Matching,” I discussed the confusion between entity resolution and matching as in record de-duplication.  Matching is a necessary part of entity resolution, but it is not sufficient.  In [...]

By Robert Barker, Infoglide Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer Judging from recent remarks by Dr. Leonard Schaefer and Edward Lull Jr., the need for identity resolution is heightened by the turbulent economic circumstances of the “interesting times” we find ourselves living in.  While specifically referring to name analytics in a recent article in [...]

This post is based on a March 31 interview with Infoglide Senior Vice President Douglas Wood by Linda L. Briggs for TDWI (The Data Warehousing Institute), March 31, 2009. Click here to read the entire interview. In a comprehensive discussion, Doug Wood of Infoglide Software spoke about an area of confusion that exists when people [...]

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

By Douglas Wood, Infoglide Senior Vice President Identity Resolution and Entity Analytics are names given to advanced operational business intelligence tools that allow organizations to glide across disparate – possibly remote – sources of data, with a view to understanding possible matches and non-obvious relationships across that data.  In order to accomplish this feat, an [...]

By Robert Barker, Infoglide Software Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer A recent post on the Netrics blog illustrates a key principle underlying the power and value of identity (“entity”) resolution software – solutions without it allow costly and even deadly decisions to be made. At Infoglide, we’re keenly aware of the sometimes life-or-death [...]

By Robert Barker, Infoglide Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer Our previous post was a response to Phillip Howard at Bloor who recently raised questions about data quality solutions in a series of posts.  One final point he made raises an issue that deserves an extended comment. On this point Philip says “where I [...]

By Dan Power, President and Founder, Hub Solution Designs In a recent post on the Hub Solution Designs blog, I wrote about the importance of integration to Master Data Management (MDM). Today, I’d like to dig into the importance of identity resolution to MDM. In a previous life, I worked for Dun & Bradstreet, and [...]

By Robert Barker, Infoglide Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer Dan Power at Hub Solution Designs recently challenged “MDM project team leaders, program managers, and data champions” to think about the importance of integration. In particular, he asks about MDM integration in three contexts: real-time, business modeling, and two-way hub communication. Additionally, Jill Dyché [...]