ASES Consulting - Leaders in Argentina in Data Cleansing Solutions

Around 30 years ago, software was not considered a concrete business value. It was long after its significant maturity that it became part of any company's assets.
The information handled by programs is slowly following the same path.

Revealed data has always been set apart from the software issue, as if an external problem. In the best cases, some organizations have tried to improve their warehouse and handling processes, but rarely have they focused their efforts on data itself.
However, data is the raw material with which systems operate, and many of its properties can directly affect the performance of programs. If a data entry process is inconsistent, incomplete, incorrect, ambiguous or out-of-date, it is likely to result in wrong reports, additional difficulties in the utilization of the information obtained or confusing incoherencies.

Our data quality suit of products has been built to be integrated into all enterprise applications.

Merlín Data Quality Expert

This is our data standardization software (both on-line and batch modes) especially designed for Argentina. The leading product in the market because of its high-quality resolution, performance and various implementations.

/// Merlín Data Quality Expert - ONLINE

It is our star product. It is a highly portable product and has been especially developed to be easily integrated into core systems such as SAP; ORACLE, SIEBEL, VANTIVE, ENGAGE, among others.

It comprises a broad range of connectivities, (MQSERIES, TCP/IP, HTTP, JAVA STORED PROCEDURES, OBJETOS COM, etc.), which permit opening the program with a "single call" from the customers ABM screen, thus seamlessly integrating it into diverse applications. Its high performance (more than 250 records per second) can meet the requirements of the most demanding environments, speeding data entry process and providing a practical and scalable solution for market leader companies.

/// Merlín Data Quality Expert - BATCH

It is an essential standardization tool for marketing areas.

This tool enables the customer to handle lists and all the information used in direct marketing actions, speeding times and reducing mailing costs.

Main Functionalities of Merlín Data Quality Expert

•Addresses
Address parsing. Standardized components.
Address standardization.
People
Name parsing. First and last names components.
Gender determination.
Partnerships detection.
Phones
Separation of phone numbers into standardized components.
Phone numbers standardization.
Identification of cell phones.

MODULES

Addresses Standardization

This module permits the standardization and validation of addresses (by checking the existence of any street and corresponding number.) It also works as a filter enhancing the quality of the data entry process.

This module comprises different grammar levels, which permit recognizing different components such as street, house number, floor, apartment/ room and comments; as well as detecting a neighborhood within the address field.
Example: in the case of a country (in Argentina, a closed neighborhood) that appears informed in the address field.

It detects orthographic and phonemic mistakes, transpositions and typing errors. It has been fully enriched with synonyms to solve any language usage or characteristics problems that may arise in different zones.
Example: It is very frequent that the customer writes the wrong locality name, probably because he/ she does not know the exact boundaries of such town.

Equivalent localities
Example: some zones are usually mistakenly informed by the customer; for instance instead of mentioning the real name of the locality they may mention the district, or even the train station nearby.

NOTE: Ases Consulting has been certified by CORREO ARGETINO in 1999.

Phones

As part of Merlín Data Quality Expert solution we offer a phone module to standardize land-line phones and detect cell phones using predictive dialers and avoiding delays while searching for prefixes in long-distance calls.

Parsing into first and last names components - Gender Determination

This module has been integrated into Merlín Data Quality Expert to identify First and Last names / Business Names, by using own interpreting tools.

All ASES Consulting products are completely portable and can be seamlessly integrated into the customer's current systems, web environments and Microsoft Office.
Furthermore, our products feature all the characteristics of our language as well as the usages of each country .

Merlín Data Matcher

This is the unique product of corporate deduplication and householding (in both on-line and batch modes) specially designed for Argentina.
It enables the detection of duplicate records, similarity-based grouping and matching between databases or lists.
It leverages the management of great volumes of information, thus optimizing the quality of matching and speeding processing times.

Main Functionalities of Merlín Data Matcher

Access to different databases
Match codes generation
Distance functions specially tailored for:
   • People
   • Business names
   • Dates of Birth
   • Identity Cards
   • Phones
   • Addresses
Detection of duplicates
Grouping

MODULES

Online Validation of Taxpayer's Condition

This module has been created to be seamlessly integrated into applications developed by our customers as well as to comply with the General Resolution n° 1817 of AFIP (Argentine Federal Tax Authority). [ General Resolution AFIP 1817 ].
The applications can interact with this module exactly in the same way as they do now with Merlín Online.

Functionality:

The module will answer validation requests of CUIT (Taxpayer's Sole Identification Number) containing this information:

CUIT number (mandatory)
Full name (optional)

The answer will comprise the following information:

CUIT number (Taxpayer's Sole Identification Number) informed
Full name informed
CUIT number found
Full number found
Income tax status
VAT status
Category within the single tax system
Whether the individual is any partnership member
Whether the individual is an employer
CUIT (Taxpayer's Sole Identification Number) status
Name status

Online Validation of Financial System - DNI / CUIT / CUIL* ( On Line )

* DNI (National Identification Document)
CUIT (Taxpayer's Sole Identification Number)
CUIL (Taxpayer's Labor Identification Number)

This module has been created to be seamlessly integrated into the applications developed by our customers. The applications can interact with this module exactly in the same way as they do now with Merlín Data Quality Expert Online.

Functionality:

Classes indexing files and providing efficient methods to search within a great volume of data. (38,000,000 records).

A service capable of receiving validation requests of documents (DNI and CUITS) and answering said requests.

Classes which can provide different connectivities between the service and external applications.

SMS Search

This application has been especially designed to search for large volumes of data, streamlining the matching and speeding response times in SMS messaging. As a result of its alliances with leading companies, Ases Consulting provides tailored solutions to tackle with each special problem, innovating and utilizing this new way of communication.

Customization

Merlin Data Qualilty Expert's flexible design permits the inclusion and development of validation and enrichment modules. With these modules we provide our expertise in standardization issues, interpreting and matching.