IM InfoSphere Identity Insight, Version 8.0

Entities

An entity is a collection of one or more identities that represent the same person, organization, place, or item. Entities are stored in the entity database.

Although entities are often thought of as people, entities can also be things such as businesses or vehicles. In fact, you can use the system's extensible configuration to map your organization's data and create any type of entity that you want to resolve or relate.

Entities are often composed of identities that come from several different source systems. Entity resolution determines which identities are really the same entity and creates a composite entity that contains all the identities associated with that composite entity. The system maintains full attribution of the records, identifying the source associated with each identity in the composite entity.

You configure the system to resolve and relate entities in a way that meets the goals of your organization.



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Last updated: 2011