Frequently Asked Questions

Tamr is an AI-native master data management (MDM) platform that helps organizations unify and curate data from across disparate systems and sources using AI. Tamr specializes in resolving duplicate, inconsistent, or incomplete records to create clean, accurate, enriched, and trustworthy datasets, making data ready for analytics, AI, and operational use.

Tamr focuses on solving data quality problems like duplicate records, fragmented customer or supplier views, inconsistent naming conventions, and disconnected datasets across systems. It enables entity resolution, data enrichment, and the creation of golden records at scale—all with continuous improvement via human-in-the-loop feedback. Tamr overview

Tamr uses AI and machine learning to identify and resolve duplicate and inconsistent records across sources, creating a single, trusted "golden record." Additionally, Tamr standardizes and validates data formats, fills in missing values through its enrichment capabilities, and corrects inconsistencies, ensuring data is accurate, consistent, and complete.

Tamr provides the only AI-native master data management (MDM) solution that delivers high-quality, trusted data in days or weeks (rather than months or years), with greater accuracy and a lower total cost of ownership (TCO). Unlike traditional MDM systems that rely heavily on rules and rigid data models, Tamr uses a machine learning-first approach. As a result, when compared to alternative solutions, Tamr scales more easily, is more efficient, requires minimal manual effort, adapts better to new data sources, and is designed to be agile in modern cloud and hybrid environments. View comparison

Yes, this is a core capability. Tamr's domain-oriented data products are purposefully built to connect data across sources, clean and improve its quality, enrich it, and connect it back to analytical and operational systems.

Tamr specializes in mastering company data (e.g., customers, prospects, suppliers, healthcare organizations, distributors, etc.) and people data (e.g., consumers, contacts, healthcare providers, students, employees, etc.).

Tamr handles datasets of any size, including companies mastering just 50,000 records and companies mastering hundreds of millions to billions of records.

Tamr's unique approach to matching uses patented machine learning models developed by our data scientists and machine learning engineers. We have tested and trained our AI models for performance and accuracy using hundreds of diverse data sources. We only release models that have been proven to deliver a very high accuracy level in testing (often 95%+).

Explainability was a key criteria for us when developing our machine learning algorithms. The models themselves are very human-readable, and Tamr also provides uniformity metrics to identify the records for curator review (the ones with the least similarity). These metrics can also be used to understand why Tamr makes match decisions. Finally, Tamr enables users to provide override rules to ensure that specific business logic is always applied. For example, if you have a trusted identifier within an existing data source, Tamr can use that identifier as a rule to always match those records.

For over a decade, Tamr has invested significantly in refining our algorithms to perform optimally and at scale, and to accurately match records with diverse characteristics. And this is just a small part of the value Tamr provides. We also deliver the infrastructure to manage the end-to-end process, the data quality and enrichment services to perform data testing and feature extraction, and the curation interface to manually fix edge cases. As a result, you can manage your data as a product—and not just complete a one-time project that's difficult to scale or sustain.

First, Tamr provides data quality services out-of-the-box to clean raw source data and extract key attributes, using external reference data where possible, so that matching models are fed with the best information possible. Next, for company data, the solution matches raw source data to a corpus of 500M+ company records. This approach enables us to incorporate aspects like subsidiary/parent relationships into the matching process, allowing us to connect records that may appear very different on the surface (such as Instagram vs. Meta). Then, Tamr applies clustering models to match the records. Finally, we’ve spent 10+ years developing an AI-based platform that uses all of the attributes available within records to make match decisions. We can also compare those records using a broad range of similarity measures, including factoring in the overall uniqueness of a value, to deliver the best results for unique data types. This contrasts with other solutions, which typically have a single, rigid approach or require people to hand-code the matching logic.

No, not at all. Business users and data analysts can easily use Tamr with our intuitive, user-friendly UI. No coding or machine learning background is needed.

A data product from Tamr is a pre-configured, packaged application for a specific entity type/domain that utilizes our AI-native MDM platform capabilities to deliver the best version of your enterprise data to all consumption endpoints.

Yes. Notifications is a platform feature that is included for all customers. Those using Tamr's real-time APIs get maximum value from this feature.

Yes. Tamr supports data lineage by keeping a detailed history of every change to a record, including all user actions. This audit trail provides a comprehensive view of how the data evolved, bolstering trust and ensuring compliance.

Yes. Tamr supports data governance by enabling data mastering, improving data quality, and providing transparency through data lineage and stewardship workflows. It helps organizations unify and clean data across silos, supports regulatory compliance, and allows for secure, auditable data processes.

No. Tamr does not have classification capabilities.

No. Tamr is not an ETL tool.

Tamr offers both.

No. Tamr does not require professional services. Our onboarding and implementation process is quick and straightforward. However, we can collaborate with our customers' preferred consulting and integration services providers.