The Dark Art of Name & Address Deduplication

By |2026-10-23T18:50:37+00:00October 23rd, 2026|

Why 25 years of experience still matters when everyone thinks matching records is easy. At first glance, deduplication seems straightforward. Compare two records. Decide whether they match. Remove the duplicate. Job done. If only it were that simple. At The Software Bureau, we've been immersed in the world of data matching and deduplication since the company was formed in 2000. In fact, our founders were building sophisticated deduplication solutions even before then. Over the past 25+ years we've helped organisations tackle some of the most complex matching challenges imaginable, processing hundreds of billions of records through our software every year. Today, SwiftDedupe helps organisations configure complex matching strategies incorporating individual, family and address-level matching, suppression hierarchies, survivorship rules, fuzzy matching [...]

The Software Bureau vs matchIT

By |2026-09-28T13:05:11+00:00September 28th, 2026|

The UK on-premise and cloud data quality alternative. A practical comparison for UK data teams reviewing alternatives as matchIT support winds down. Quick summary If you’re running matchIT today, whether that’s the desktop tool, the SQL Server integration or matchIT Web, and you’re weighing what comes next, this is a practical comparison of what a move to The Software Bureau looks like. Dozens of organisations have made the switch from matchIT to The Software Bureau over the years, and with an increasing number of enquiries from matchIT customers we put together the following comprehensive guide to help explain the differences. Short version: matchIT was built as a technical matching engine for UK data teams and became a [...]

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