Chapter 6

Resolve and Retrieve Phase – Identity Resolution

Abstract

The resolve and retrieve phase of the CSRUD life cycle is the primary use case for MDM as an application. Client systems provide entity identity information in exchange for the identifier of an entity, a process called identity resolution. From an MDM perspective, two important aspects of identity resolution guides its implementation and underlying architecture. These are its mode of access – batch versus interactive – and its universe model – open universe versus closed universe.

Keywords

Identity resolution; batch access; interactive access; closed universe; open universe

Identity Resolution

Identity resolution is an EIIM configuration where the input is entity identity information ...

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