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How To Test Your Upgrades
This guide will equip you with robust guiding principles for effectively testing a product upgrade. Adhering to the guidelines outlined in How To Test Your Upgrades will help streamline your testing process, ensuring that time is spent efficiently and in accordance with risk-based testing principles. This includes: Setting…
Elastic Load Optimization Strategies 📖
Loading data into Elasticsearch can sometimes lead to performance issues, such as slow data loads or loads that fail to complete. The Elastic Load Optimization Strategies guide outlines actionable steps to help improve the performance and reliability of Elasticsearch loads. Key Elastic load optimization strategies: Shard…
Entity Quality: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 🎭
This article looks at Entity Quality and how to judge it based on business need. It introduces Overlinking and Underlinking as a product of Entity Resolution, and these two concepts are two ends of a continuum. Entity Quality is the bedrock of any Entity Resolution (ER) based solution and has implications up and down the…
📣 Announcing Our Upcoming Webinar: Tips & Tricks for Managing Large and Complex Networks 📣
We’re excited to announce our upcoming session based on the very popular article Tips & Tricks for Managing Large and Complex Networks by @Stacey_Parsons. In this session, Stacey will team up with @Mark_Cossey, Head of Product Design, and @Matt_Long, Head of AML Solutions, to delve into practical strategies and new…
Announcing our latest Community Member Spotlight... @deningj
Announcing our latest Community Member Spotlight... @deningj Joe recently joined Quantexa's User Research Panel, and participated in an exclusive Q Assist Testing & Feedback Session. Providing detailed insights and invaluable feedback to Quantexa's Product Team earned Joe the October Community Member of the Month accolade.…
Building a Centre of Excellence, & other treats from the Quantexa Community
🎃 No Tricks, Just Treats: October Top Picks 👻 🆕Library Area: Centre of Excellence Introducing our new Community Library area filled with articles on building a Quantexa Centre of Excellence including deep dives into people, processes, and technology. Highlights include: Overview: Building a Centre of Excellence People:…
Business Analyst Entity Review Checklist 📋
Conducting a focused evaluation of Entity Resolution is a critical step in the Entity Maturity Checklist. This article provides a step-by-step guide and scoring system to help Business Analysts assess the state of Entity Resolution within their deployment. Each section includes a scoring guide, with scores ranging from 0…
Join the Race to 3000 Members!
🎉The Quantexa Community is on the brink of hitting a huge milestone: 3000 members 🎉 We want to celebrate this milestone so we're running a competition where you could win exclusive Community-branded swag! Here’s how it works: Recommend a colleague to join the Community. Request the "Recommend a Friend" badge and, in the…
Using Batch Resolver Tools for Entity Resolution
Entity Resolution (ER) is a key part of the Quantexa solution. It is important to understand how changes to improve Entity Resolution can affect the entire Entity population. If you are new to Entity Resolution at Quantexa, take some time to familiarize yourself with the concept introduced on our Documentation Site page…
Community Training Program, Multi Use Case Best Practice Guides, and more top picks from November!
Here's what you might have missed this month on the Quantexa Community: 🆕Community Training Program Powered by the Quantexa Academy, the Community Training Program provides Community members with easy access to the content of the Quantexa User Foundations (QUF) program at no extra cost. What's Included This program…

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New guide 📖 Scoring Concepts: Write-Once Steps
Discover how to efficiently use Write-Once Steps in the Assess framework for data transformation. This detailed guide complements the Write-Once Steps documentation and helps you determine when to apply Write-Once Steps effectively in both Batch and Dynamic Scoring contexts. Key topics covered: The potential cost of using…
Why Does Entity Quality Matter? & Best of the Community from March
March Top Picks Why Entity Quality Matters 🔐login required Enter our latest competition: The Knowledge Exchange 📝 New Education Programs: Scala & Spark Bootcamp and Quantexa Data Engineer Velocity Program Quantexa & Xander Talent - New Education Partnership 🤝 Elevating Data Management: Unveiling the Pillars of a Trusted…
Quantexa & Xander Talent - New Education Partnership
Driving the creation of COEs for customers and partners to enable them to leverage Decision Intelligence (DI) technology via accelerated learning programs and talent provision. Quantexa, a leader in Decision Intelligence (DI), and Xander Talent, a top digital talent consultancy, are excited to announce a strategic…
Welcome to Quantexa 2.3 | 2.3.0 Release Announcement
In Quantexa 2.3, you will find: Entity Store, a new component in our set of Entity Resolution capabilities; Introduction of Security Model V2, a new way to manage Role-Based Access and Control within The Quantexa Platform; Enhancements to Assess including Path Ranking, a new way to define paths; Support for Elasticsearch 8…
Spark Settings for Success
This page is set up to introduce spark-submit job settings and what considerations you should take when setting them. Please check out the Spark Documentation for all the possible ways to set your spark job: Spark Settings Spark setting are highly dependent on datasource type and size and should be tuned separately.…
Read now: What it's Like to Perform an Upgrade
Read all about our experience and key takeaways when upgrading a repository from version 2.1 to 2.3. The upgrade was performed and released in early 2023 shortly after version 2.3 became available. The main motivation behind this particular upgrade was to upgrade the batch tier software including versions of EMR & Spark…

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How I Became a... Technical Lead
Meet Charlotte… My current job title is Lead Data Engineer, but this captures a variety of activities. The things I’m responsible for range from technical leadership of a project team (coordinating the Development Team and contributing to the technical work needed to deliver the Quantexa), to leading the Data Practice…
What can Network structure tell us about risk?
By Matt Jackson and Christina Tkachenko Background Corporate registry Documents provide useful structured information for use in risk modelling. In particular, the information within can be a good indicator of suspicious activity. Yet, sometimes this information is not enough to inform a decision or take an action. By…
AI at Quantexa
AI is at the heart of the Quantexa Decision Intelligence Platform, helping users unify data and create context to make accurate and reliable decisions. Machine Learning (ML) and AI are applied in four distinct areas within the Quantexa Platform: Composite AI within Quantexa The Quantexa Platform uses multiple AI techniques…
A day in the life of Monty... Chief Innovation Mascot
To fully explain Monty’s role as a chief innovation mascot we need to first start with some other introductions. Let’s start with @Parsa_Ghaffari , entrepreneur extraordinaire, previous CEO of Aylien (now part of Quantexa and known as News Intelligence), initial creator of Q Assist and Head of Product Innovation. Product…
A day in the life of... a Technical Business Analyst
The Business Analyst Team serves as a key link between our technical developers and the end users. Our role is to help clients navigate their journey towards achieving optimal technical and business solutions across a variety of use cases. Day-to-day, we collaborate with Project Managers, Technical Leads (TLs), Solution…
3. Quantexa Best Practice: Move Fast, Break Less, 😊 More
This article is to explain the benefits of following Quantexa's Best Practice when delivering your Quantexa deployment, and provide a high level view of what those best practices are. Why follow Quantexa’s Best Practice? Quantexa’s Best Practice is born from real-world learnings. These learnings developed practices that…
1. Multi Use Case Best Practice
The Quantexa Platform is not a point solution; it has been developed on fundamental principles of flexibility and scalability, and supports multiple business applications or use cases in a single system. Many Quantexa deployments will originally serve a single use case, although some may be intended for broader use from…
A Day in the Life of a... Data Engineer
The Data Engineering team at Quantexa is responsible for implementing Quantexa’s technology solutions for clients worldwide, spanning various sectors such as banking, insurance, government, and healthcare. We manage the entire data pipeline, from ETL processes to UI configuration. Our tasks include ingestion of the data,…
4. Using Quantexa Kafka Streaming for the First Time
Quantexa integrates Kafka as its primary streaming platform to process, ingest, and generate networks in near real-time, leveraging its powerful Entity Resolution, and Big Data capabilities. Quantexa provides out-of-the-box applications such as Kafka Record-Extraction and Kafka Document-Ingest, designed to streamline data…
Introduction to User Journey Analytics
What is User Journey Analytics (UJA)? User Journey Analytics (UJA) is a service developed as part of the Quantexa Platform that tracks and collates end-user activity, enabling analysis and understanding of usage data to help maximize the value of the Quantexa Platform. How does UJA work? UJA receives events from the User…

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Catch up on the latest from our solution & industry user groups 💬
Here's what you might have missed this month from our Data Management, Financial Crime, Insurance, and KYC Specialist User Groups: How Can Decision Intelligence Help Identify Medical Provider Facilitation & Collusion? Reimagining Monitoring and Detection Advancing Correspondent Banking Insights: Managing Respondent Banks…

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