Full disclosure, I work for Pentaho. I read over the other answers on the thread, and I think first of all it is key to focus on your use case type Many of those answers were general business intelligence or data integration responses. That is useful, but you are…

Full disclosure - I work for Pentaho. We provide a fuzzy matching step in our comprehensive Data Integration solution ( http://infocenter.pentaho.com/help/index.jsp?topic=%2Fpdi_user_guide%2Freference_step_fuzzy_match.html) If you find that data challenges are a big part…