How CDQ products work and how to use them, ordered by product. Business-oriented pages explain how a capability works and what it produces; pages with the API badge explain how to consume it from your own system. For step-by-step walkthroughs see the Tutorials, and for short task-focused how-tos see the Instructions.
Argentina
How Argentine addresses are structured, why the post code carries the province, and how the floor and the department reach the SAP fields.
Australia
How Australian addresses are structured, why the suburb rather than the city is the place on the address, and where the unit and the level go on the street line.
Brazil
How Brazilian addresses are structured, why the bairro and the state abbreviation belong in the address, and how the complemento reaches the SAP fields.
Canada
How Canadian addresses are written in English and in French, where the unit number goes, and how the postal code identifies the province.
China
How Chinese addresses are written largest-first in Chinese and smallest-first in English, which value is the city, and why Hong Kong and Macao have their own country codes.
Egypt
How Egyptian addresses are structured, why the governorate and the neighbourhood carry the address, and how the seven-digit postcode replaced the five-digit one.
France
How French addresses are structured, how CDQ models the postal line layout, and how CEDEX is delivered without losing the commune post code.
Germany
How German addresses are structured, why the locality addition is part of the name, and how the three kinds of German post code are delivered.
India
How Indian addresses are structured, what a PIN code encodes, and why the state and the PIN are the values to rely on.
Italy
How Italian addresses are structured, why the two-letter province code belongs at the second administrative level, and how San Marino and the Vatican differ from Livigno and Campione d'Italia.
Japan
How Japanese addresses are structured, how CDQ models the area levels and the block number.
Korea
How Korean addresses are structured, how the road name and lot number systems relate, and why an address is identified as a whole.
Mexico
How Mexican addresses are structured, why the colonia and the interior number belong in the address, and how the state is resolved from its postal abbreviation.
Portugal
How Portuguese addresses are structured, and how the floor and the side of the door reach two different output fields.
Saudi Arabia
How the Saudi National Address is structured, what the building number, the additional number and the postcode encode, and why the region is not on the envelope.
Spain
How Spanish addresses are structured, how the floor and the door reach the SAP fields, and why the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla stay Spanish while a free zone changes nothing.
Thailand
How Thai addresses are structured, how CDQ models the four administrative levels, and which Thai reference data CDQ maintains.
United Kingdom
How British addresses are structured, why the post town and the postcode carry the address while the county does not, and where Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man fit.
United States
How United States addresses are structured, what the postal standard requires, and how ZIP and ZIP+4 are delivered as one value.
Vietnam
How Vietnamese addresses are structured after the 2025 reform, how the alley numbering works, and how older addresses with abolished districts are read.
Matching Process
Describes how Duplicate Guard detects and manages duplicate business partners, link statuses, API responses, and available cleaners and comparators.
Integration for Developers
API How a Duplicate Guard Monitor, the link database, and connected-component grouping fit together when you consume duplicate detection from your own system.
Data Mirror
What a Data Mirror holds, how storages, data sources and business partners relate, and how to decide the data source design for your landscape.
Data Mirror Integration
API How to write business partners into a Data Mirror, read curated results back out incrementally, and the operational details that cause most integration failures.
Golden Record Fetch Strategy
Explains how the Golden Record Fetch strategy prioritizes and selects data from multiple sources to create a unified business partner view.
Report Configuration Matrix
Comprehensive reference for report types, monitor dependencies, configuration fields, and available features across all report types.
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