The document discusses the Corporate Data League (CDL), which focuses on improving cross-corporate business partner data management in the cloud. It highlights the challenges companies face due to regulations, compliance, and rising fraud, advocating for better data quality and shared information among members. CDL provides tools and cloud services to facilitate compliance, data cleansing, and maintenance, supported by community collaboration and best practices.

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Kai Hüner
Simon Schlosser
Corporate Data League
Cross-corporate business partner data management in the cloud
St. Gallen, 2015

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Ever-growing regulation and
Compliance rules
Companies from several industries are facing the same
challenges in business partner management
Operational excellence – or
“do more with less”
Rise of professionally
digitized frauds
 Find ways to improve process
performance with less head count
 Digitize manual processes to reduce
head count and risk
 Learn from others to avoid “reinventing
the wheel”
 Advancement in hacker capabilities
 Scammers perform multi-channel attacks
(e.g. hacked email and phone)
 Professional frauds are run again multiple
companies
 Provide upstream transparency and certificates
to fulfill regulation and consumer demands
 Provide downstream transparency to comply to
e.g. blacklists and embargos
 Provide high-quality data to fulfill legal reporting
requirements
Share
updated business
partner data
Share
fraud warnings
with forged data
Share
certificates
and blacklists
Share
updated business
partner data
Share
fraud warnings
with forged data
Share
certificates
and blacklists

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Corporate Data League
Cross-corporate business partner data management in the cloud
Increase data quality
Automated address cleansing, normalization and translation,
semantic business rules validation, state-of-the-art matching technology
Reduce data maintenance efforts
Common standards, trustful community, sharing of up-to-date information,
managed community processes, and easy-to-use cloud services
Manage compliance risks
Up-to-date blacklist information, sharing of banking data fraud information,
compliance with Swiss data privacy law, cloud services hosted in Switzerland
Benefit from the shared wisdom of the crowd
www.corporate-data-league.ch

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Collaboration and cloud technology are the major pillars of
the Corporate Data League (CDL)
Corporate Data League*
The CDQ Team
 Manages the CDL community as a
neutral moderator
 Operates CDL cloud and services,
 Monitors data quality and
process performance
 Provides up-to-date reference data
(e.g. blacklists, business rules)
The CDL Cloud
 Protects all CDL data by
state-of-the-art IT security
concepts
 Keeps all data in a protected
cloud hosted at Swisscom in
Switzerland
The CDL Members
 Share updates of business partner data
 Double-check updates to assure data quality
 Share compliance information such as uncovered
banking data frauds
 Review and revise CDL metadata such as business
rules and blacklists
 Share best practices for processes and organization
* CDL members and interested companies
CDL Cloud
read
write

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CDL cloud services provide a number of benefits across the
entire business partner data lifecycle
Lookup
Required information:
Name, country, locality
Add details
e.g. legal form and address,
tax number, and banking data
Check compliance
Check data against
CDL compliance database
Get regular updates
Call CDL cloud services
to receive updates
Higher data quality Less maintenance Less compliance risks
 Lookup business
partner data in CDL
database
 Cleanse addresses
 Translate addresses
 Validate data
 Lookup banking data
 Match against
blacklists
 Check for banking
fraud warnings
 Pull updated
business partner IDs
 Pull updates per
record
Skip maintaining details and just copy complete
and up-to-date data including compliance checksBusiness partner
found in CDL database

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Visit our website to test CDL cloud services and to get a
detailed conceptual and technical documentation
www.corporate-data-league.ch
CDL Metadata Repository
Browse the documentation of CDL core concepts
Browse CDL Business Rules
Browse CDL Reference Data (e.g. blacklists)
CDL Demo Web Application
Create demo data and understand CDL Processes and CDL Business Rules
Cleanse and translate data with the CDL Cleansing Engine
Check data for duplicates with the CDL Matching Engine

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CDQ AG
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Corporate Data League
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Contacts
University of St. Gallen
simon.schlosser@unisg.ch
Research Assistant
+41 (0)79 9642762
CDQ AG
kai.huener@cdq.ch
Partner
+49 (0)176 20195027
Dr. Kai Hüner
Simon Schlosser