Unison – Customer Data Platform

All-in-One Platform for Data Quality

Unison is an end-to-end customer data platform that profiles, cleanses, and monitors your customer data with no programming required. Perfect for data stewards, Unison is a fast, efficient solution that will keep your data clean and usable to maximise ROI.

With Unison, you can easily:

Connect to your data for greater insights
Clean your data to achieve optimal accuracy
Create reports with comprehensive, easy-to-read graphs

How Unison Works

1 Profile

Profile data using standard and advanced metadata with data drill down capabilities for real-time investigation.

2 Cleanse

Cleanse data with advanced fuzzy matching detection, inferred data type detection, and contact data verification, standardization and correction.

3 Match

Match and consolidate duplicate records with built in survivorship rules.

4 Apply Rules

Apply Rules for generalized cleansing for rules- and knowledge-based data quality.

5 Discover

Discover data trends and changes with side-by-side reporting with clean, visual reports and graphs.

6 Compatible

Compatible with flat file and various DB connections include MSSQL, MySQL and Oracle, with automatic detection of data delimiters and columns.

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Simple Visual Interface

Schedule jobs using an easy and intuitive project wizard to automatically run hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or yearly

Intuitive Matching GUI

Powerful fuzzy matching and golden record survivorship with simple built-in rules
Dedupe several files at once, from varying sources & formats: flat file, CSV, SQL, and Oracle
Review and tweak results inside the platform, in real-time

Secure Data Processing

Unmatched security with on premise data management
Control access to financial, medical or other sensitive personal data
Secure local browser access for stewards & users to run data quality regimens

Fast Distributed Performance

Distributed computing handles large data sets & millions of records
Real multi-threading batch performance across the organisation regardless of system or format
Scales to move accurate data through enterprise pipelines in record time.

Built-In Visual Reporting

Process and monitor jobs with robust visual analytics
Robust reporting for stewards & stakeholders
Detailed logging of results with audit trails

4 Key Differentiators

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All the Capabilities Without the Programming

Designed with the data steward in mind, Unison was developed to empower even non-programmers to perform, schedule and manage rigorous data quality routines with the ability to collaborate with others in the enterprise.

02/04

Wizard Matching & Visual Reporting

Unison features a wizard-based matching interface that makes it easy to review and tweak results right inside the platform. Gain detailed, color-coded analytics reports that provide a high-level overview of how data was cleaned and improved.

03/04

Powerful Processing in Record Time

Unison disseminates customer data quality jobs across the enterprise and harnesses the processing power needed to quickly render contact data clean and reliable in record time – processing 50 million records per hour.

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Compatibility & Growing Features

Melissa’s Customer Data Platform supports Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and a variety of delimited flat files and its collection of capabilities are growing with a roadmap that includes expanding capabilities with additional data enrichment services for all types of data.

Unison Capabilities

Address Verification

Verify, correct, and standardise postal addresses to ensure deliverability for 240+ countries.

Name Verification

Recognise and parse 650,000+ ethnically-diverse first and last names into components. Verify, genderise and create salutations for valid individuals, plus flag fake or vulgar names.

Phone Verification

Verify UK and International phone numbers to ensure they are live and callable. Identity the dominant language in the number's region to establish better customer relationships.

Email Verification

Validate and parse email addresses, correct common typographical errors, and standardise email addresses to improve deliverability and reduce spam.

Geocoding

Convert a postal address to a precise, rooftop latitude/longitude coordinate for mapping and analytics. Coverage for 95% of all physical addresses in the UK. plus support for many countries around the world.

Data Matching & Deduplication

Identify and eliminate duplicate records that cost money and prevent a single customer view.

Platform Topology

Unison’s architecture is designed from the ground up to be innovative, scalable, and reliable.

Advanced Web Application Interface
Job Scheduling
Reports and Analytics
User Authentication System
Activity Logs

Effortless Scalability

Unison was designed from the ground up for effortless scalability, ease of use and robust data quality and cleansing capability.

Client/Server architecture
Scalable across multiple servers
Containerisation of backend
Works while completely offline

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Unmatched Security

With Unison, your data is always safe and secure.

Controlled access to customer data with user authentication ensures that the most sensitive personal data, like financial or medical records, will be protected within your organisation.

Helpful Resources

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The Real Cost of Bad Data

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Unison Product Sheet

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Unison Tutorial on MSSQL Tips

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