SAS Quality Knowledge Base for Product Data - Now Available

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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.