IM Relationship Resolution Information Center, Version 4.2

Alerts

Alerts are messages or other indications that signal an event has occurred.

Alerts are generated in one of two ways: The relevant data about alerts is displayed in the Visualizer for further analysis and investigation and can also be issued as printed reports, e-mails, or pager alerts.

It is important to define what alerts meet your organization's goals. A good place to begin is to ask which relationships between entities are of interest to your organization. Relationships are based on user-configured roles, which are assigned to incoming data records by source system. When two entities share enough attribute data values without resolving to the same entity, those entities form a relationship. Make sure that the role alert rules configured for your organization clearly define which entity roles create a relationship that your analysts want to investigate further.

Alert examples

Some examples of relationships of interest that your organization might want to generate alerts include:
  • One of the people employed by your organization is also a vendor supplying goods or services for payment to your organization.
  • One of your customers shares an address and a name similar to a person listed on a government watch list.
  • Two of the people who filed slip-and-fall reports at your organization have similar names and addresses and share a phone number.


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Last updated: 2009