Automated duplicate matching has an improved duplicate detection algorithm, with added matching logic flexibility that takes into account the most common constituent data entry errors. More duplicate constituent records can correctly be detected and made available for resolution. The intended result is fewer new duplicate records. Two phases underlie this feature:
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Pre-Duplicate Matching: the high-level determination of existing potential duplicates between Luminate Online and your offline database.
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Duplicate Scoring: a determination of the degree of similarity (with a numeric score of 0 to 100) between the new constituent record and each the potential duplicate identified in the matching.
The above matching and scoring together constitute a two-pass process that is automatically run on new constituent data.
This system is enabled by Blackbaud Support using a Site Option (PREDUP_ROUGH_MATCH_ENABLE in Duplicate Management). By default, this feature is disabled, and exact matching of constituents by last name is used instead.
Note: Automatic Duplicate Management is disabled by default. To enable it, contact Blackbaud Customer Support. You may want the utility disabled so that it doesn't run against data imports that you want to check manually. You can import datasets that do not contain duplicates of any online records.