Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS) is a platform for building high
performance data integration solutions, including Extraction, Transformation, and Load
(ETL) packages for data warehousing. SQL Server 2005 is required to run SSIS.

About IST

Since 1993, Intelligent Search Technology (IST) has been developing and marketing
fuzzy matching components widely used in data quality and data cleansing initiatives.
Our data quality product portfolio includes data profiling, name parsing and
standardization, address correction and standardization, merge/purge and deduplication.

How IST and SSIS come together

SSIS is very extendable and allows companies to develop and integrate-third party
components that complement its functionality. At IST we leverage our extensive data
quality and fuzzy matching expertise to develop a set of SSIS data quality components.
These components utilize our core industry leading algorithms which combined with the
rich functionality of Microsoft’s SSIS platform, produce a flexible and robust data quality
solution available to anyone running SSIS or SQL Server.