Working with the Company Cleanse & Match Dataset

Lynn Langit

August 2013

Working with the Windows Azure Marketplace and DnB data

Who, What and Why D&B

World's leading source of commercial

information and insight on businesses

In business for 175 years, providing

company data from a global database with 215 Million records

Data collected from 30,000 sources, uses

D&B D-U-N-S identification system

Data used by sales, marketing,

procurement, suppliers and more

What is the Windows Azure Marketplace?

One-stop shop for premium datasets

You can browse, consume or sell

• Direct exploration• Excel Power Pivot• Other • APIs (Visual Studio)

Interact via

About the D&B Company Cleanse Match Dataset

Demo 1 – Understanding the D&B Company Cleanse & Match Dataset

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DnB Azure Key Concepts

• URI– https://api.datamarket.azure.com/DNB/DQSCompanyMatch/v1/

• One Method– SuggestCompanyDetails

• 10 Input Parameters (5 are required)

• 22 Output Parameters

Demo 2 – EXPLORING using Excel Power Query to understand the DnB Company Cleanse Match Dataset

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Using Power Query Key Concepts

• URI & User Key for Data Market– https://api.datamarket.azure.com/DNB/DQSCompanyMatch/v1/

– <user key> from Azure Data Market

– One Method (SuggestCompanyDetails)• 10 Input Parameters (5 are required)

– Must call ‘invoke’ method

Using Data Quality Services

• SQL Server 2012 DQS can consume Windows Azure Marketplace datasets

• See this screencast for more detail - here

Part 3 – Writing an application in C# that consumes DnB data from the Windows Azure Marketplace

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Try it out!

Accessing Data via the API

• Data is exposed via OData feeds• Must pass credentials and key when calling

the method• Must pass in required parameters

Considerations

• Authentication– HTTP or OAuth - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg193415.aspx

• Query Type– Fixed

• Call pre-defined methods

– Flexible • Can call with optional parameters• Generate proxy via Visual Studio ‘Add Service Reference’

– REST or SOAP

Resources

• FAQ• Reference Guide to Cleanse & Match Dataset

– On my blog• Promo code to get started

– Send email to “DNB_MS_Partnership_CoreTeam@DNB.com”