Do the Evolution(ary)

Evolutionary Technologies International Inc., a provider of data integration solutions, has announced the general release of a couple new products determined to prettify databases worldwide: ETI Data Profiler and ETI Data Cleanser.

These products are touted as making extendable the functional capabilities of ETI Solution V5 software and ETI High Performance Connectors to provide data quality in a full-feature platform offering. The ETI Data Profiler product offers a solution that proports to discovers the content, structure and quality of data sources from the start of an IT project; through counts, advanced statistics, pattern recognition, inconsistency identification, anomalies, unique key values and data relationships does the program buzz away, using automated discovery and analysis.

Company figures show that ETI Data Profiler can reduce the total cost of analysis by almost one-third. Theoretically, ETI Data Profiler than takes on associated data quality improvement, trackable through the integrated issue management feature; said feature promises greater visibility. ETI Data Cleanser deals with data quality problems, and specializes in what the firm’s brain trust sees as the most troublesome of all problems in data loss: the random nature of many data errors.

ETI Data Cleanser reportedly features advanced fuzzy matching technology including Soundex, a phonetic-based algorithm. Along with fuzzy logic, ETI Data Cleanser includes algorithms to clean replacement, transposition and semantic errors; the cleanser can also parse, standardize, correct, enhance, match and deduplicate data from virtually any source.

ETI Data Cleanser can run in line with production systems or offline for batch-based projects using traditional servers or grid computing infrastructure. Founded in 1991, Evolutionary Technologies International Inc. is a provider of enterprise data integration solutions for government IT organizations and Global 1000 companies.

Applications implemented by ETI include SOA, ETL, EAI, EII, CRM, ERP, compliance reporting and data warehousing. Among the Evolutionary clientele base are Caterpillar, the Department of Defense, Hallmark Publishers, and Royal Bank of Canada. ETI provides software and services that automate the seamless exchange of data between incompatible systems.