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Customer Insights: Announcing the release of Pre-Unification Enrichments

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We are excited to announce the release of Pre-unification Enrichments in Customer Insights. Pre-unification enrichments allow you to improve the quality of the profiles created during unification by improving the quality and completeness of your data prior to unification.

Why use Pre-unification enrichments

Customer Insights ingests various types of data from many sources. The data can be incomplete and presented in different incompatible formats. When this incomplete and unstandardized data is used in unification it can limit the accuracy of the matches obtained. Preview customers saw that using standardized addresses from pre-unification enrichments in matching can increase precision of match by 5% and discover an additional 8% matches that were missed due to unstandardized data.

You can take advantage of the following capabilities to enrich your data before unification:

  1. Clean and Enrich Address Data with Enhanced addresses: use enhanced addresses capability to clean, standardize and auto complete your addresses before going through unification. This will give you confidence that your address data is standardized and complete and ensure that you will get exhaustive and accurate matches once you use these addresses in profile unification.
  2. [B2B Instances only] Clean and Complete Company Data with Enhanced Company Data: for businesses, use enhanced company data enrichment to standardize company names. This will allow you to identify duplicated company accounts, as well as identify matching companies during unification. This enrichment also enhances company data with additional details: address, phone number, email, and website.
  3. Enrich Customer Data with Third Identity resolution capability - LiveRamp: LiveRamp is a third-party enrichment that enhances your data sources with unique consumer IDs to discover more matching records. Live Ramp Identity resolution provides unique IDs for each of your customers based on their personally identifiable information (PII) like a person’s name. This will require an additional Live Ramp license. These IDs enable you to build a customer profile where PII information is missing or incomplete. These IDs can also help identify matching records even when PII does not align as in the example below:

Name

Postal

Email

ID

John Smith

123 Main St.

john@gmail.com

1001US01XX1245

John Smith

246 West 3rd St.

john@yahoo.com

1001US01XX1245

Try data sources enrichment and see the improvement in your match rate.

How to set up Pre-unification Enrichments

Go to “Data sources” and select the dataset you would like to enrich. Click on the drop-down option and select Enrich.

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Next, select which enrichment you would like to run and select Enrich my data.

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This will take you to a page where you can configure the enrichment. Once fully configured, Click run, and you can view the results.

How to use these new enriched entities in unification:

Go to Unify, Select Match, and then select Use Enriched Entities. This brings up the view below where you can select which enriched entities to use:

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Select the correct entity to use and re-run Match, you should see the updated entity as shown below:

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Learn more about these enrichments:

Data sources enrichment: Data source enrichment - Dynamics 365 Customer Insights | Microsoft Docs.

Enhanced Addresses:  Address enhancement enrichment (contains video) - Dynamics 365 Customer Insights | Microsoft Docs

Live Ramp Enrichment here: Live Ramp identity data enrichment - Dynamics 365 Customer Insights | Microsoft Docs, Address enhancement enrichment (contains video) - Dynamics 365 Customer Insights | Microsoft Docs

Enhanced Company data hereCompany data enhancement - Dynamics 365 Customer Insights | Microsoft Docs

More questions: Ask below this post, or reach out directly to: Nimrod (nimrod.magen@microsoft.com) and Diane (diane.mutako@microsoft.com)

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    Nya 29,058 on at
    RE: Customer Insights: Announcing the release of Pre-Unification Enrichments

    Hi,

    Thanks for your sharing!

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