• What You’ll Learn
• Understand how Duplicate Suspect Processing and Search (using PME) work for Physical Implementations of InfoSphere MDM
• Understand the MDM configuration project and database tables used by the PME
• Understand the PME Algorithms (Standardization, Bucketing and Comparison steps) and how to create and customize the algorithms using the workbench
• Understand how to analyze the Bucketing steps in an algorithm
• Understand how to generate weights for a given algorithm and how those weights are generated based on a sample database set.
• Understand how to analyze the weights that are generated using the workbench
• Understand how to deploy the PME configuration for a Physical implementation of InfoSphere MDM.
• Understand the integration between the Physical module and the PME
• Who Needs to Attend
  This advanced course is for Business and Technical Specialist working with Suspect Duplicate Processing and Search services of InfoSphere MDM.

Prerequisites

• If you are new to MDM, you should take the follwowing courses:
• Introduction to InfoSphere Master Data Management

Virtual Module Algorithms for InfoSphere MDM

Follow-On Courses
There are no follow-ons for this course.

Course Outline
PME and Physical Overview

Physical MDM Overview
Terminology (Entity, Critical Data, Business Object)
PME and Physical MDM ( Algorithms, Weights, Comparison Scores, Thresholds)
Physical MDM Suspect Duplicate Processing
Physical MDM Probabilistic Search
Exercise: Testing the default Physical PME algorithm
Physical PME Data Model and Mapping

Default Physical BObjs and mapping to PME
Virtual Party Template
Default Party Configuration project
Exercise: Loading default Physical PME Configuration project
Physical MDM Algorithms

Standardization
Bucketing
Comparison Functions
Exercise: Explore and customize the default Physical Algorithm
Bucket Analysis

Analysis Overview
Attribute Completeness
Bucket Analysis
Exercise: Analyzing our Buckets
Weights

Weights Overview (Frequency-based weights, Edit Distance weights and Parameterize weights)
The weight formula
Running weight generation
Analyzing weights
Bulk Cross Match process
Pair Manager
Threshold calculations
Exercise: Generate Weights
Exercise: Pair Manager and Threshold Calculations
Exercise: Deploying the Physical MDM PME Configuration
Physical MDM PME Adapters and Converters

MDM PME Adapter overview
MDM Outbound and Inbound Converters
Exercise: Creating a custom converter