<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><!-- generator=Zoho Sites --><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><atom:link href="https://www.mercerlal.co.uk/Insights/tag/Database-de-duplication/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>Mercer Lal Ltd., Berkshire, England - Insights #Database de-duplication</title><description>Mercer Lal Ltd., Berkshire, England - Insights #Database de-duplication</description><link>https://www.mercerlal.co.uk/Insights/tag/Database-de-duplication</link><lastBuildDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2025 14:12:08 -0700</lastBuildDate><generator>http://zoho.com/sites/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Data Management]]></title><link>https://www.mercerlal.co.uk/Insights/post/datamanagement</link><description><![CDATA[Our Data Management services leverage proven data-based solutions, combined with skilled resources to ensure a successful, cost-effective outcome. The ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="zpcontent-container blogpost-container "><div data-element-id="elm_qzAFukDPT3qIvMiBmb66GA" data-element-type="section" class="zpsection "><style type="text/css"></style><div class="zpcontainer-fluid zpcontainer"><div data-element-id="elm_hm6TMFX4R2GRoWc-1HiXyA" data-element-type="row" class="zprow zprow-container zpalign-items- zpjustify-content- " data-equal-column=""><style type="text/css"></style><div data-element-id="elm_m8CF5JaCQOmaSz58Yu3mxQ" data-element-type="column" class="zpelem-col zpcol-12 zpcol-md-12 zpcol-sm-12 zpalign-self- "><style type="text/css"></style><div data-element-id="elm_MEHi61WXSB6Uc6IFowVqTw" data-element-type="text" class="zpelement zpelem-text "><style></style><div class="zptext zptext-align-center " data-editor="true"><div><p>Our Data Management services leverage proven data-based solutions, combined with skilled resources to ensure a successful, cost-effective outcome. These cover Migration, Extraction, Standardisation, and Digitisation together with Analytics, Research, and Call Centre Solutions for outsourced support.</p><p><strong>Data Migration</strong></p><p>Data migration is significant when it comes to shifting sensitive business details &amp; files from one location to another. We are professionally trained &amp; experienced in moving data as a one-off from a legacy application to a desirable platform. We have robust IT infrastructure and security systems that ensure efficiency, security, and integrity of customer information &amp; historical data.&nbsp; Ensuring cohesive datasets is our specialty, which involves creating periodic sync routines, or building real-time integration. We maintain data integrity throughout this process.</p><p><strong>Data Extraction</strong></p><p>Obtain data from a database or cloud-based platform in its full integrity through data extraction services. We offer tailored extraction solutions, which ensure replicating data from existing formats like PDFs, saving you time, effort and headache. In addition, we put on our creative hat for drawing &amp; preparing your digital assets from raw datasets. </p><p><strong>Data Standardisation</strong></p><p>With data standardization, we bring data of any type into a uniform format. We have advanced formatting tools that can present Data in a consistent format for easier processing. It allows researchers and analysts to discover breakthroughs, analyse and utilise findings. This is also particularly useful in high volume repetitive tasks like processing Purchase Orders from your reseller channel.</p><p><strong>Data Digitisation</strong><br/><br/>Translate paper-bound data into digital files with our high-quality data digitisation services. We automate scanning and data recognition using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). It converts offline data into a PDF or desirable file format. With this, we ensure repurposing of data, like extensive real estate details. You may index, search and tag any datasets, phrases or key words, which saves hours on data retrieval and frees up valuable office real estate.<br/><br/><strong>Data Analytics</strong></p><p>Data analytics makes decision-making easier. We ensure the conversion of raw data into meaningful information by connecting to your existing data sources to build unique workspaces. These workspaces enable us to access insights &amp; share them across different applications. From custom reports to purpose-built algorithms and artificial intelligence, let your Data guide you to work smarter.</p><p><strong>Data Research</strong></p><p>Whether its web scraping for Lead Generation or gathering intelligence for Market Analysis, our online specialists will churn out qualified Data at speed, without compromising on quality.<br/><br/><strong>Call Centres</strong></p><p>We train and manage Agents to represent your Business in a professional manner, using our Service Management tools to implement SLAs, log Incidents, assign Tasks, escalate Issues, with integrated updates to your key applications. We provide Agents for back-end work as well as front-end customer engagement, ensuring both written and spoken language skills are vetted to the required level. </p><p><strong>Data Validation</strong></p><p>Maximise the value of your Data with our exceptional validation services. We verify the validity &amp; authenticity of every dataset twice, through both manual and software-based testing. This converts Data into a meaningful and trustworthy asset, on the back of which you can apply automation and workflows to boost your productivity. </p><p><strong>Data Mining</strong></p><p>Data mining can change the way your Business operates. Using our data-modelling techniques, you can foresee and plan for outcomes. We mine a large volume of datasets, which include extraction, transformation, and process-loading. By using a broad range of techniques, we provide valuable information that highlights numerous ways to increase your revenues, cut costs, improve customer relationships, and reduce risks.</p><p><br/><br/><br/><br/></p></div></div>
</div></div></div></div></div></div> ]]></content:encoded><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2022 14:49:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deduplicating your CRM]]></title><link>https://www.mercerlal.co.uk/Insights/post/deduplicating-your-crm</link><description><![CDATA[As you deal with an increasing amount of data, you will invariably be faced with the challenge of keeping it free of duplicates. Whilst this issue exi ]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="zpcontent-container blogpost-container "><div data-element-id="elm_jruoY85QRHyalLaxAURanQ" data-element-type="section" class="zpsection "><style type="text/css"></style><div class="zpcontainer-fluid zpcontainer"><div data-element-id="elm_3jnSD8auSHugKCniFexr_w" data-element-type="row" class="zprow zprow-container zpalign-items- zpjustify-content- " data-equal-column=""><style type="text/css"></style><div data-element-id="elm_Y6jGElHmSgyNrdYumJRuHA" data-element-type="column" class="zpelem-col zpcol-12 zpcol-md-12 zpcol-sm-12 zpalign-self- "><style type="text/css"></style><div data-element-id="elm_rpV5B8-kQd-Kno4Solniug" data-element-type="text" class="zpelement zpelem-text "><style></style><div class="zptext zptext-align-center " data-editor="true"><div><p>As you deal with an increasing amount of data, you will invariably be faced with the challenge of keeping it free of duplicates. Whilst this issue exists across all databases, I am referring to Zoho CRM for the purposes of this article.</p><p>Like most CRMs, Zoho has built-in deduplication functionality, which is easy to use and can be applied across data in the Leads, Contacts and Accounts module. Each module will give you a choice of 4 fields (you can select up to 3), based on which, the system will find and merge duplicates. Zoho will either auto-merge records if all values are the same, or it will prompt you to resolve conflicts where values of duplicate records are found to be different.</p><p>Now, a great way to limit the potential for duplicate records (being proactive here!) is to set up what are called 'Unique' fields in Zoho. Once a field is marked as Unique, Zoho will prompt you if it finds a duplicate value, whenever you try to enter a new record. Great stuff right, but choose with care as you are allowed a maximum of two Unique fields! Typically, this might be the Email Address and Mobile, however, you can also choose other fields specific to your system like perhaps Passport Number, or Company Registration Number, if you hold that kind of data. <br/><br/>At this stage you might think, wow, you will never need to deduplicate, but before you jump for joy, let me bring you back to earth with a gentle limitation of this feature. Remember, there are different ways to create records and without going into too much detail, there are scenarios where the deduplication fails. One example being the aforementioned Email Address, which although set up as Unique, will not stop duplicate records from being created, if they come in via Zoho Sheet View, are restored from the recycle bin, form part of a data migration or imported through synchronisation with Outlook or Google. </p><p>I think it is quite clear that duplicates are an inevitable, ongoing housekeeping task in any database. CRM platforms like Zoho provide useful deduplication features, but can they provide fuzzy logic instead of exact matches? In fact there are a few reasons why you might need our deduplication solution, which is available as an extension to Zoho CRM and many other platforms:<br/></p><p>The Reasons:<br/> 1) Quality of Duplicates - This is the single most important reason. CRMs usually find duplicates as exact matches. Our DeDupe is built on algorithms which have been trained through studying and processing tens of millions of records. For example, it knows that (a) Bangalore = Bengaluru, (b) NSW = N S W = N.S.W. (c) Mohd. Iqbal = Mohammad Iqbal = Mhd Iqbal = Iqbal, Md. (d) Seven Industrial Parkway = 7 indl pkwy and hundreds of more sophisticated examples. This quality drives the organization towards achieving much higher levels of data integrity.<br/><br/> 2) Duplicate Parameters - Zoho CRM gives an exact match for 3-4 parameters like Name, Mobile etc. Our DeDupe currently covers 9 parameters and more will be added in coming weeks. And all the parameters show smart pattern recognition as described in #1 above. This enables you to look at the data in multiple ways and triangulate easily on similar records which have been represented multiple times in the system, thus contaminating the database.<br/><br/> 3) Ease of Discovery -&nbsp; Very intuitive interface which analyses and merges similar clusters, as compared to a batch report of exact duplicates rendered by CRMs. The information of similar records gets frequently updated automatically and there is no need for you to periodically run any reports. Consequently, correcting the data becomes a regular habit rather than a one-off spring cleaning exercise.</p><p></p></div></div>
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