Its data profiling, transformation, parsing (of any text data), cleansing and matching functions are available through an interface designed to be intuitive for businesspeople or non-technical users. The product also includes functions such as issue management and graphical tracking of data quality issues, which provide an early warning system for potential data problems. This helps organizations identify the source and cost of poor quality data practices and resolve them efficiently.

Judges also noted Datanomic dn:Director 6.1's innovative data quality features, including support for structured and semi-structured data. The text analysis functions allow users to rapidly profile text data such as product names and descriptions and guides the creation of new ontologies to parse free-format text into structured data items.

dn:Director is built around a Java framework, which allows the client server architecture to be simply deployed on a wide-range of platforms. dn:Director also boasts scaleability, key in an global businesses environment where organizations are processing huge data volumes. The vendor says that processing time per record depends on the complexity of the process the user has defined, but claims that in benchmarks of typical parsing and matching, dn:Director has consistently out-performed other data quality tools by between 20 and 40%.

Pricing options include a software rental model starting at 2,700 UK pounds (about $5,285 USD based on today's exchange rates) per month, inclusive of support an maintenance. Perpetual licenses start at £36,000 (about USD $70,500). A typical implementation on a multi-core server with 5 developer licenses and unlimited end-users costs £90,000 (USD $176,200) for a perpetual license.

Learn more about Datanomic: dn:Director 6.1 here on the Datanomic Web site.

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