matchIT On Demand

Puntos a favor

it does the job, however part of our job is to check addresses that are un-verified by the software., which can often result in 1000;s of records to check

Puntos en contra

if you have just a postcode and a house number the system will generally fail to add detail and verify an address, likewise if address data is in the wrong order (house number after the road) the software is unable to spot and correct this.
Also spaces in data fields cause the system a problem

Puntos a favor

You can create your own unique searches, not just rely on default settings. Many setting variables allow you to tailor the searches to the varying quality of data sets worked on. Finds matches I would have struggled to find, if find at all, manually. These days MatchIT is far quicker than earlier versions. Easy/straightforward to renew every year. Enthusiastic and helpful support.

Puntos en contra

Sometimes seems a little fragile/sensitive. Keyboard shortcuts don't work properly, have to keep switching to mouse.

Puntos a favor

It's flexibility and open-source nature of the SQL version and quality of results

Puntos en contra

It's a bit tricky getting your head around how and what to change in order to tweak the matching results to get it tailored perfectly when working with different different data sources that have different quality level

Puntos a favor

We love this. It makes all the niggly bits of SQL coding and automates them out, so you spend your time thinking and programming not typing and looking for names/objects.

Puntos en contra

It doesn't like Citrix - we had to run a special implementation. To be fair the workaround does work, but it can be challenging for a new user.

Puntos a favor

This is for MatchITSQL.
- On-premise only environment which is deemed important for data isolation per legal requirements.
- Uses MS SQL Server which takes advantage of existing infrastructure and licensing.
- Closely integrated with SSIS which allows for very detailed and complex customization and manipulation of and allow to alternate between MatchIT automation and pure SSIS transformation/scripting as necessary.
- Brilliant and responsive customer support as well as good quality consultancy services have been a great help in implementing MatchIT in real-world solutions with very little downtime due to blocking issues.
- Very extensive parameterization capabilities.

Puntos en contra

I think it would be beneficial to have more detailed documentation available as well as step-by-step examples/tutorials/videos to help get up to speed with MatchIT SQL, especially in relation with the plethora of parameterization capabilities available.