Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to your questions about EasyDQ.com. Everything you need to know about the Data Quality services, the supported applications and data privacy.

If you have a question not answered, please get in touch and we will answer it straight away!

Pricing

Please refer to the Pricing page for questions related to pricing.

 

Functionality

Q: How is the geographical coverage of the services?

EasyDQ provides cleansing functions that can deal with almost all contact data from around the world. More than 240 countries are covered with extensive knowledge in our services.

An exception to the rule is the Name service as it is used in Data Improver. Data Improver is a highly specialized application, which means that it only supports names from Germany, United Kingdom, Belgium and The Netherlands.

Q: Which character sets are supported?

All services accept UTF-8 encoded strings. UTF-8 includes both latin characters as well as other alphabets. Obviously the results that the services give depend on the input characters.

Support for different character sets (aka. 'writing sets') differ among the services, since they deal with different domains which have different character set characteristics:

  • Name cleansing: All character sets supported.
  • Address cleansing: Support differs per country. In general, latin characters are always supported. For some regions other characters are also supported.
  • Phone cleansing: Only numbers and symbols supported.
  • Email cleansing: All character sets supported.
  • Duplicate detection: All character sets supported.

 

Privacy and security

Q: Are the online Data Quality services secure?

Yes, all EasyDQ.com service invocations are transmitted using HTTPS/SSL, which means that your data will be encrypted and that the network server will be securely identified. This effectively means that your data is not humanly readable and that you don't need to worry about it ending up in the wrong hands.

Q: How will my data be treated by Human Inference?

Human Inference uses a privacy and security awareness policy that applies to all data processing procedures. Customer data will only be stored by Human Inference when needed for the functionality of the services. If the data is no longer needed, it will be deleted automatically.

In short, your data will never be shared with any third parties or be used by Human Inference for internal purposes. Please refer to our terms and conditions for more details.

 

About EasyDataQuality

Q: Who is EasyDQ?

EasyDQ is a service provider created and owned by Human Inference, a dutch Data Quality vendor recognized in eg. Gartners Magic Quadrant.

 

Supported applications

Please refer to the Take a Tour page for general information about the supported EasyDQ applications.

Q: I have an application that I would like to enhance with EasyDQ.com functions, how do I do that?

Our DQ services can be integrated into most applications. Depending on the application and the nature of the involvement, Human Inference can assist in doing the integration or you can do it yourself.

All services are exposed using secure (HTTPS/SSL) SOAP web services. For some specific services additional integration options exist.

If your application is web/html based then we have a specialized Javascript API which allows for integration into forms within just minutes of work.

Please contact Human Inference to learn more about integration work and our partnership models.