By Jeff Jonas, published December 10, 2018 Inspired by the 70th Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights, I wanted to blog about the PbD history and features of Senzing. For over a decade we have been building Privacy by Design into the Senzing technology and we’re starting to see great examples of it in ...
By Deepak Rangarao of IBM Analytics/Ecosystem, published October 22, 2018 This is our first guest blog on Senzing.com. Identity fraud isn’t a new topic. It costs government agencies/businesses a lot of money. As shown above, it is important to look proactively for scenarios where one person is pretending to be different people to benefit from ...
By Jeff Jonas, published October 9, 2018 Backstory on how I came upon the name Senzing: initially I thought the perfect company name would be “Sensemaking.” Our specialty, Entity Resolution, is a critical component in helping organizations make sense of the world. To my dismay, sensemaking.com was already owned. I attempted to buy this domain, ...
By Jeff Jonas, published October 1, 2018 By “federated search” I mean individually searching each system in an attempt to locate records meeting certain criteria, e.g., records about “Liz Reston.” Federated search is like going to the library for a specific book and, instead of searching for its location in the index, looking for the ...
By Jeff Jonas, published February 20, 2018 When asked about unstructured data this is all I have to say: “Unstructured data is only useful if structure can be extracted from it.” Let me explain: A picture taken in pitch black without a flash is useless as it contains no discernible features. The mobile phone call ...
By Jeff Jonas, published February 12, 2018 I’ve been building Entity Resolution algorithms for a very long time. The first time, in the early 80’s for credit bureaus/collection agencies as they needed ‘debtor matching.’ God forbid they call the same person twice for two different debts. Then come the ‘90’s and I find myself in ...
By Jeff Jonas, published February 1, 2018 The EU’s Global Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) has upped the privacy ante. As of 25 May 2018, any company who does business with EU citizens must be able to respond to their requests to access their personal data within 30 days or face huge fines. Is your organization ...
By Jeff Jonas, published January 26, 2018 Good morning world! We are Senzing and this is a big week for us. We’ve been operating in stealth mode since August 2016 when we signed a unique partnership with IBM to license the G2 technology. Following an additional year and a half of engineering, today I can ...