{"id":265,"date":"2013-08-05T10:45:32","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T08:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e3mag.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2019-04-01T10:52:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T08:52:34","slug":"abloesung-als-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/abloesung-als-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"Replacement as an opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With around 300 customers in German-speaking countries - including financial institutions, insurance companies, <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-o387t243wg3bo72ots31x7frxdnvuu75\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Telecommunications company<\/span> and companies like <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-ufw3bimvrjp8shxghqn1jn9w4o062c2i\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-organization\">BMW Group<\/span>, <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-46my50bqrorwimc32wqex0t9b2dqch6i\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-organization\">DaimlerChrysler<\/span> or the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-eurgku4hotpwvbnkk71tsvqnayv2zjby\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-organization\">German Telekom<\/span> - counted Fuzzy! <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-kojxm7hgagcb07tb2vwcm760lzsmnb97\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Computer Science<\/span> once one of the leading providers of data quality solutions.<\/p>\n<p>1994 as a spin-off from <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-lwmifa5udponrq434k3ihbwisir1z3gt\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-organization\">Daimler Chrysler<\/span> founded and acquired by the former Business Objects in the fall of 2007, the company was immediately acquired together with its new parent by the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-3kiaxv5gjhhfv6qnkw4l6nutc3go6511\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-person\">SAP<\/span> taken over.<\/p><div id=\"great-2360651165\" class=\"great-fullsize-content-en great-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6ZGXMPyM-nU\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"banner_26-04_29_1200x150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-400x50.jpg 400w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-768x96.jpg 768w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-100x13.jpg 100w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-480x60.jpg 480w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-640x80.jpg 640w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-720x90.jpg 720w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-960x120.jpg 960w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-1168x146.jpg 1168w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-18x2.jpg 18w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26-04_29_1200x150-1-600x75.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" width=\"1200\" height=\"150\"  style=\" max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Initially, the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-a9umtpv7q0qcsjp2xs0n551urdeoxzmk\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-place\">Walldorf<\/span> all rights and obligations under the existing contracts. But then the maintenance contracts were terminated.<\/p>\n<p>The maintenance of the products \"Fuzzy Boycott\", \"Fuzzy Bank\" and \"Fuzzy Move\" has already expired in 2012. For \"Fuzzy Post\", the end of maintenance is imminent for the end of 2013 and for \"Fuzzy Double\" at the end of 2014.<\/p>\n<p>For the IT managers concerned, there is now an acute need for action if they want to continue to maintain customer data that is postal and free of duplicates.<\/p>\n<p>While a batch solution can be replaced with comparatively little effort, the situation is different for service components (API). Integrated into solutions and processes, in-depth adaptations of existing systems are necessary here. The project costs exceed the pure software costs.<\/p>\n<p>So what to do? Tolerant Software offers users of the Fuzzy!<span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-fr298lk4tbkixl5md7imjagnuo5sab7v\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Tools<\/span> an alternative to its previous solution: the 2009 by former <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-dvyto8xnw3fk37mw1h65iheedzphmqp0\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Employees<\/span> the fuzzy! <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-3015su1j1jgr841c6y2pu8t26wb6pm3q\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Computer Science<\/span> The company develops \"state of the art\" data quality and<span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-3288btze6xjjc8n5ki04zg051x6iputc\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Applications<\/span>. For example, for duplicate checks, postal checks, name analysis or the comparison of sanctions lists.<\/p>\n<p>Extensive knowledge of the Fuzzy! products offers the option of simple replacement of the previously used <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-ttibylifk7fkkcfc3ro0gcjlt70ca3fm\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Tools<\/span>. A standardized migration path can reduce the necessary effort by a factor of two to three.<\/p>\n<p>This is also helped by the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-o59jbx0dmogl28w6j1i1vhenyj060tuw\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Know-how<\/span> of the former Fuzzy!<span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-xh2g5h98ilesp227enue7c5p5z93m1d9\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Employees<\/span>. However, the crucial bottleneck lies elsewhere: The termination of maintenance contracts triggered an increased demand for data quality products.<\/p>\n<p>However, experience shows that many companies delay a new acquisition as long as possible. Tolerant recognized this early on and entered into a partnership with the Dutch data quality specialist Human Inference. Their solutions expand the Tolerant offering, for example with matching methods that use a knowledge base and natural language processing techniques beyond the fuzzy! functionalities, all the way to a complete solution for the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-55wajuztotbpjbfqs7ke5lx7bnsfpptn\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Master Data Management<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The solution \"HIquality for <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-5r5sn2bz5y5dxe72sskl1gc8ac5tb4cx\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-person\">SAP<\/span>\" about enables <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-ty5c3s6n6jqgi4duhri2u9w4rwwkt09y\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-person\">SAP<\/span>-users to quickly enter and change contact data. Pollution is prevented as soon as the data is entered, in accordance with the first-time-right principle, as contact data is validated immediately and by checking whether it has already been entered in the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-h7u4neu4085490auodgaev4epxajqr8h\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-person\">SAP<\/span>-system are present.<\/p>\n<p>The <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-l8iixsvlyigpon6z785ivfdy8lkmwokp\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Software<\/span> is completely integrated in SAP EEC and <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-2uuyypj6b5kchr2et4djypgvdp3v9wux\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">CRM<\/span> integrated and from the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-4ze2zih8l1uyz9powr52goxsa7hhxlp4\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-person\">SAP<\/span> certified.<\/p>\n<p>To facilitate the entry of international data, all name data can be entered in a single field. The assignment of the data to the corresponding fields of the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-xgillejlemtwa4vo7rkhahtk3half65q\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-person\">SAP<\/span>-mask, the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-enbu5mzc5i4dk0j22wu51kqrk1gfysks\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Software<\/span> which has correct address information from 240 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Since it is within <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-b4v4i7fzq05kperq97taa7iwu7jvesly\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-person\">SAP<\/span> is not easy to find contact data with a search request, HIquality offers additional functionalities. For example, an error-tolerant search function has been added to the F4 search.<\/p>\n<p>It also delivers correct results when data is entered by ear - for example, in the call center. Typing errors are also no problem and are corrected automatically.<\/p>\n<p>With the migration offer from Tolerant and Human Inference, there is a solution for Fuzzy! users for their respective needs. Ideally, not only is the previous status quo maintained, but there is even an improvement in data quality after the changeover.<\/p>\n<p>The popular principle of IT managers \"Never touch a running system!\", which was adopted in 2007 after the Fuzzy <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-9su2zipzjoui2wb39vtbb1kd4e90xk7f\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Computer Science<\/span> through <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-9i4ouwyng7p9e22qpmlf7rpga8iqyc78\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-person\">SAP<\/span> worked quite well, is no longer an option six years later.<\/p>\n<p>Users who do not act now will face major problems next year and the year after at the latest.<\/p>\n<p><em>Christoph Klecker is Director <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-cz6y4w3dv0elf0ck1xndrbctwqqd3k7u\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Business Development<\/span> DACH at Human Inference. He has more than 20 years of experience in the data warehouse, data integration and data quality market. As a startup manager, Christoph Klecker was involved in numerous market entries or realignments of IT companies. Among others at <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-0rw1jtn9njuawcne287t66osf43pjtf5\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-organization\">Information Builders<\/span>, Seagate <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-608049smgn77ploornw7x7d20ym7cuy4\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\">Software<\/span>, Ardent\/Ascential Software and Informatica.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Fuzzy! Informatik was acquired by SAP in 2007, nothing changed for users at first. But by the end of 2011, the Walldorf-based company began unilaterally terminating the maintenance contracts of Fuzzy! users.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":1462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,1464],"tags":[],"coauthors":[22206],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-szene","category-mag1308","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shutterstock_269115701.jpg",1000,691,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shutterstock_269115701-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shutterstock_269115701.jpg",400,276,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shutterstock_269115701-768x531.jpg",768,531,true],"large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shutterstock_269115701.jpg",1000,691,false],"image-100":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shutterstock_269115701-100x69.jpg",100,69,true],"image-480":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shutterstock_269115701-480x332.jpg",480,332,true],"image-640":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shutterstock_269115701-640x442.jpg",640,442,true],"image-720":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shutterstock_269115701-720x498.jpg",720,498,true],"image-960":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shutterstock_269115701-960x663.jpg",960,663,true],"image-1168":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shutterstock_269115701.jpg",1000,691,false],"image-1440":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shutterstock_269115701.jpg",1000,691,false],"image-1920":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shutterstock_269115701.jpg",1000,691,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shutterstock_269115701.jpg",1000,691,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shutterstock_269115701.jpg",1000,691,false],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shutterstock_269115701.jpg",18,12,false],"bricks_large_16x9":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shutterstock_269115701.jpg",977,675,false],"bricks_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shutterstock_269115701.jpg",1000,691,false],"bricks_large_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shutterstock_269115701.jpg",1000,691,false],"bricks_medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shutterstock_269115701.jpg",600,415,false],"bricks_medium_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shutterstock_269115701.jpg",600,415,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shutterstock_269115701-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shutterstock_269115701-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shutterstock_269115701-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shutterstock_269115701-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/shutterstock_269115701-300x300.jpg",300,300,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>Als Fuzzy! Informatik 2007 von der SAP \u00fcbernommen wurde, \u00e4nderte sich f\u00fcr die Anwender zun\u00e4chst nichts. Doch schon Ende 2011 begann der Walldorfer Konzern, einseitig die Wartungsvertr\u00e4ge der Fuzzy!-Anwender zu k\u00fcndigen.<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"<a href=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/category\/szene\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Szene<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/category\/mag1308\/\" rel=\"category tag\">MAG 13-08<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"Christoph Klecker, Human Inference","url":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/author\/christoph-klecker\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}