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MSC Industrial Direct- customer case study

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Overview "Following a company merger, MSC Industrial Direct Co. found that duplicate customer records were disrupting the business workflow and causing sales compensation issues. MSC Industrial Direct Co. implemented the Pitney Bowes Business Insight Data Quality Solution to cleanse its customer database and reconcile duplicate customer records."

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Publisher	Pitney Bowes	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	Knowledge and Data Management, Data Mining - Analysis, Data Quality, Database Management, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing

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