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Pitney Bowes Business Insight CDQ Platform

Cover from Pitney Bowes Business Insight CDQ Platform

Date: 15 January, 2009
By: Philip Howard
Format: InBrief

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The Customer Data Quality (CDQ) Platform is currently in version 5.6, which was released at the end of November 2008. It is available in a modular manner; two of these modules, Profiler Plus (for data profiling) and Monitor Plus (for data stewards and data governance) are third party products that are resold by PBBI. It is also worth noting that the CDQ Platform integrates with the company’s Data Flow ETL (extract, transform and load) product and that the company has a partnership with Silver Creek Software to provide data quality solutions for complex product data.

The CDQ Platform runs under Windows Server (2000 and later), Linux (Red Hat and SuSe), Sun Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and IBM’s iSeries. This latter is significant because there are relatively few vendors with comparable products that support the iSeries. Client functions (the Management Console, Interactive Driver and Enterprise Designer) run under Windows. These client capabilities have been specifically designed to support relevant user groups, thus the Enterprise Designer caters to both business users and data analysts, allowing non-technical users to create data quality data and process flows; on the other hand the Management Console is aimed at administrators and the Interactive Driver at business users.

There is an extensive range of support for third party integration via C, C++, .NET and Java APIs as well as support for XML and web services. The CDQ Platform is usually licensed in the normal manner but there is also a hosted (software as a service) option available called CDQ on Demand. This has been extended in the latest release so that you can license individual CDQ modules in this way. Thus you might licence all of the transformation modules for use in-house but licence the Enterprise Geocoding Module as a hosted service. Since the whole CDQ Platform is based on a service-oriented architecture the integration should be seamless.

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