It is not uncommon for RAS Audits to identify significant issues in the data audited, otherwise termed as mass corruption of data. In many instances the scale of the corruption can make manual rectification prohibitive in terms of time, cost and operational implications. Furthermore, to many organisations, the potential for human error in the rectification of such records is too high risk to be considered seriously.

RAS Rectifier is a solution to rectifying or cleansing high volumes of data in a batch mode. Using commercially available packages, RAS can address a wide range of issues including the following:

De-duplication - Duplicates are often created as a result of minor differences between records. For example, a record recording an abbreviated forename or misspelling of a surname could be created when an existing record using the full forename or correctly spelt surname already exists.

RAS Rectifier offers an organisation to minimise the effects of common data errors. This might result in reduced cost or improved planning, budgeting and decision making; it all depends on the nature, scale and implications of the problems identified