Abstract: A customizable system and method for transferring data between an input data set and an output data set having possibly different data formats is provided comprising receiving data from an input data set, the data having a predetermined data format, converting the data from the input data set into data having a format compatible with an output data set, the converting being conducted by a data exchanger and one or more customizable configuration tables for controlling the data exchanger to convert data from a first user defined format to a second user defined format, and outputting the output data to the output data set.

Abstract: A system and method for indexing a data record from an information source into a database, the database containing a plurality of data records, is provided comprising receiving a data record from an information source, the received data record having a predetermined number of fields containing information about a particular entity, standardizing and validating the data in the received data record. A system and method is also provided for retrieving records that refer to an entity characterized by a specific set of data values by comparing a predetermined number of fields within the received data record with a predetermined number of fields within the data records already in the database, selecting data records already in the database as candidates having data within some of the predetermined fields that is identical to the data in the fields of the received data record, and scoring the candidates to determine data records having information about the same entity.