Automated company matching

A method of matching company names, the method comprising:

• receiving a provider side company dataset having multiple provider companies, each of the multiple provider companies having a respective company record;
• generating provider side company signature fragments for each of the multiple provider companies based on the respective provider company records;
• receiving a client side company dataset having multiple client companies, each of the multiple client companies having a respective client company record;
• identify a provider side inexact match candidate based on a comparison of the provider side company signature fragments to the provider company record for at least one of the multiple client companies of the client side company dataset, the provider side inexact match candidate including an overlap of the provider side company signature fragment with the respective client side company record;
• for each of the client side companies:
• compute a match score for the provider side inexact match candidate;
• rank the provider side company the match score, and
• generate multiple top matches of the client side companies based on the ranking of the provider side match candidates;
• and
• output the multiple top matches.