Datanomic was a software engineering company based in

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. Founded in 2001, Datanomic developed data quality solutions. In 2006, Datanomic acquired

Tranato Datanomic was a software engineering company based in Cambridge, England. Founded in 2001, Datanomic developed data quality solutions. In 2006, Datanomic acquired Tranato and integrated Tranato's semantic profiling and parsing capabilities with ...

and integrated Tranato's semantic profiling and parsing capabilities with Datanomic's data auditing and cleansing to produce a new data quality application. Launched in July 2007, dn:Director provided an end-to-end data quality tool kit encompassing, data profiling, auditing, cleansing and matching through a single graphical user interface and all written in

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. Although dn:Director had capabilities to handle data quality issues in all kinds of data, Datanomic targeted its dn:Director application at business users with customer data quality challenges. It adopted a strategy of building "applications", consisting of pre-configured rules and reference data, on top of the data quality platform to address specific business issues. Most successful of these was its

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Screening application (in support of compliance with anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism know-your-customer regulation). This was adopted by clients including

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and

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. Datanomic was funded by private investors and venture capital companies 3i and

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. Nenad Marovac, Founding Partner at DN Capital, supported a management-led buyout in 2009, meaning DN Capital, Datanomic Management and other previous investors acquired 3i’s shares. In July 2011, Datanomic was acquired by

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, which announced it would combine Datanomic's technology with the Oracle product data quality capabilities it secured when it acquired Silver Creek Systems in 2010. The new combined suite is known as Oracle Enterprise Data Quality. Datanomic's compliance screening application has also been persisted as Oracle Watchlist Screening.

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Case study: Data Excellence at the London Borough of Brent, finalist in the e-Government National Awards 2008Release of dn:DirectorDatanomic acquired by OracleOracle announcement of Datanomic acquisition
Software companies of the United Kingdom Oracle acquisitions

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