SAS Quality Knowledge Base for Product Data - Now Available
The SAS Quality Knowledge Base (QKB) for Product Data (PD) 5 was released in November. This QKB was previously only available through the now retired DataFlux Accelerator for Materials Data Classification (MDC) product. As of last month, QKB PD 5 is available as a separate product and can be used with any SAS product that uses a QKB to perform data quality processing.
It contains Parsing, Extraction, Standardization, and Pattern Analysis definitions for generic product data and includes items such as Brand/Manufacturer and Product Attributes (Color, Materials, Dimensions,
Package/Unit of Measure, and Part Numbers).
Here is an example of the Parts Attributes Extraction definition in the English locale:
The QKB PD 5 has locale support for:
- English – Canada
- English – United States
- French – Canada
- French – France
- German – Germany
- Italian – Italy.
The QKB PD 5 also contains the following Global character-based Standardization definitions:
- ASCII Non-Printable Character Removal
- Hyphen/Dash Removal
- Surrounding Quote Removal
- Hyphen/Dash Space Replacement
- Multiple Space Collapse
- Non-Alphanumeric Removal
- Non-Number Removal
- Number Removal
- Punctuation Removal
- Punctuation Space Replacement
- Space Removal
For more information on QKBs in general and the QKB PD 5 release specifically, please refer to the product documentation: http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/qkb/index.html. Contact your SAS sales rep for information about licensing the SAS Quality Knowledge Base (QKB) for Product Data (PD) 5.
