Data Cleansing and Data Quality: Standardize Company and Organization Names via API or Batch Mode
Inconsistent organization names are one of the most common data quality challenges. When the same company appears as "GE", "Gen. Electric", "GE Corp", or "General Electric Co." across your systems, it creates problems for reporting, deduplication, and analytics. Watch our YouTube demonstration to see how Interzoid's AI-powered Organization Name Standardization API automatically normalizes these variations into standardized, official versions—whether through real-time API calls or high-speed batch processing.
- 📺 YouTube Demo: Watch the Video
- 📘 API Reference: Organization Name Standardization API
- 🧪 Try Interactively: try.interzoid.com
- 🔑 Register for API Key: www.interzoid.com/register-api-account
Watch the Demo
See the Organization Name Standardization API in action. This video demonstrates how the API handles various input variations and converts them to standardized official names:
What It Does
This API standardizes organization names into their official name standard using an advanced "closest match" AI algorithm. It handles various input variations including abbreviations, alternate spellings, and multiple languages, converting them all to standardized English equivalents.
Key Capabilities:
- Advanced algorithms find the closest official match for any organization name variation
- Handles abbreviations, typos, and alternate spellings automatically
- Standardizes organization names across multiple languages into English equivalents
- Enables global data consistency across all systems
- Perfect for data cleansing, deduplication, and maintaining consistent organization records
Real-World Examples
The API intelligently handles all common variations you encounter in real data:
- Abbreviations: "GE", "Gen Electric", "Gen. Electric" → "General Electric"
- Corporate suffixes: "IBM Corp", "IBM Corporation", "IBM Inc" → "IBM"
- Spacing variations: "JP Morgan", "JPMorgan", "J.P. Morgan" → "JPMorgan Chase"
- Alternate spellings: "Coca Cola", "Coca-Cola Co", "CocaCola" → "The Coca-Cola Company"
- Multiple languages: International variations standardized to English equivalents
This improves data quality, enables accurate deduplication, and ensures consistent organization names across all your business systems.
Use Cases
- Data Cleansing: Clean and standardize organization names in CRM systems, databases, and data warehouses to eliminate duplicates and improve data quality.
- Master Data Management: Maintain a single, consistent version of each organization name across all systems and departments.
- Deduplication: Identify and merge duplicate records by standardizing name variations before matching.
- Data Integration: Normalize organization names when combining data from multiple sources with different naming conventions.
- Reporting & Analytics: Ensure accurate aggregation and analysis by standardizing company names in reports and dashboards.
How to Call the API
Base endpoint:
https://api.interzoid.com/getorgstandard
Required parameters:
license- your API keylookup- organization name to standardize
Example request:
https://api.interzoid.com/getorgstandard?license=YOUR_API_KEY&lookup=GE%20Corp
Curl with header:
curl --header "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \ "https://api.interzoid.com/getorgstandard?lookup=GE%20Corp"
Example JSON response:
{
"Standard": "General Electric",
"Code": "Success",
"Credits": "591447"
}
Try It Interactively
Before integrating the API into your code, try it interactively without writing any code. Our browser-based tool lets you experiment with different organization name variations and see the standardized results instantly:
This is perfect for understanding how the API handles your specific data variations and validating results before implementation.
Batch Processing for High Volumes
Need to standardize thousands or millions of organization names? Use our high-speed batch processing tool to upload a CSV or TSV file and process all records in parallel. Results are typically 50x faster than sequential API calls:
Perfect for data cleansing projects, CRM migrations, database consolidations, and any scenario requiring standardization at scale.
Getting Your API Key
You'll need to register for an Interzoid account to get an API key: www.interzoid.com/register-api-account. Once registered, you'll receive a license key with trial credits that works across all our APIs and tools, including the Organization Name Standardization API and batch processing platform.
Best Practices
- Test with your actual data variations using the interactive tool before integration to understand how the API handles your specific cases.
- Use batch processing for large datasets (1,000+ records) to maximize speed and minimize costs.
- Standardize organization names before deduplication or matching operations for more accurate results.
- Store both original and standardized versions to maintain data lineage and audit trails.
- Always check the
Codefield in responses for proper error handling. - Monitor your credit usage via the
Creditsfield returned in each response.
The Organization Name Standardization API makes it easy to normalize company and organization names with AI-powered matching technology. Whether you're cleaning CRM data, maintaining master data management standards, or preparing data for analytics, this API delivers consistent, standardized organization names in real-time or at scale through batch processing. Watch the YouTube demonstration, try it interactively, or register for an API key and start improving your data quality today.