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By Jeff Kelly, 15 Jul 2008 | SearchDataManagement.com

Microsoft has agreed to acquire Zoomix, a small Israeli startup specializing in data quality software, a feature that Microsoft will require in order to compete with SAP and IBM, according to one analyst.

Microsoft plans to incorporate Zoomix's data quality software with SQL Server as part of its continuing efforts to make the relational database management system "a complete data platform for all data management needs," Microsoft said in a statement.

According to the Zoomix website, the Jerusalem-based firm's software uses semantic and linguistic analysis "with machine learning" to automatically and accurately parse, match, classify and clean data.

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