Refer to

Deduplicate

for information on how to analyze the degrees of similarity between records and how to create a single, preferred record from similar records. A deduplicate asset examines the identity information in each record and creates assignments between the records based on their similarity to each other. The asset then uses criteria that you define to create a preferred record from each set of similar records. To perform the analysis and to consolidate similar records into a single record, add the asset to a Deduplicate transformation in a mapping in

Data Integration

.