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Tech4T provide both software and services to improve your address data and the section below details the Global Address worldwide address validation and enhancement software.

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Global Address software solution options...

The Global Address suite captures, cleanses and enhances address data, making contact with your customers and prospects a more accurate and measurable experience.

If you work with UK, Irish, USA, European or Worldwide address data, then this address enhancement solution contains a comprehensive multi-national dataset (with country and continent subsets) together with software for address correction at time of data capture (via data entry screen or electronically / EDI) or in a single multi-country batch process.  

Global Address Summary

Improved efficiency

Whether capturing data in the contact center or over the Internet, undergoing the cleansing process or enhancing your data, improved efficiency is the key business benefit of securing and maintaining precision data.

Companies using reliable name and address data benefit from a range of performance improvements.  They will save on returned deliveries and the subsequent additional re-mailing costs; duplicate entries will be easily identified; potential fraud becomes easier to detect; deliveries reach their destination faster; and data analysis is more accurate.  Furthermore, improved accuracy can mean a faster response from customers. 

Innovative Technology

Available as stand alone software applications or developers toolkits for easy integration into third-party applications, Global Address solutions are developed around the most sophisticated technology; with matching so intuitive it almost seems to know what the operator is thinking.

Global Coverage

Global Address solutions can validate, correct and enhance client data for over 230 countries, servicing both the domestic and international requirement. Using Unicode, Global Address solutions cover a range of language and character sets.

Broad Range of Applications & Platforms

The Global Address Suite has been designed to enable clients to collect and maintain the highest quality contact data throughout the enterprise. With solutions to integrate at every stage of the business process, the Global Address Suite is the only complete enterprise data quality tool - operating on a wide range of platforms and integrating into existing applications with ease.

Global Datastore

All Global Address solutions are based on a dataset of definitive reference name and address information covering 237 countries against which client data can be matched for validation, correction and enhancement. The Global Datastore contains:

  • Over 50,000 first names from around the world for assigning genders

  • Forms of Address data for over 30 world languages to generate titles and salutations

  • Postal Address Data from over 237 country postal authorities, used for correcting inaccurate address data, and adding missing address components such as postal codes, regions etc.

  • Postal Address Formats for over 237 countries, enabling the correct layout of address components for mailing

Software applications and platforms

Global Address offers clients the flexibility to implement the software in their own enterprise or to access it via hosted services. The solution supports a broad range of applications and platforms, which are designed for implementation across the enterprise at every stage of the business process.  Global Address software can be integrated into existing third party applications on many platforms using the Application Program Interfaces (APIs) available on leading Microsoft® Windows® and UNIX® platforms.  The Global Address Interactive and Batch clients can be deployed on Windows platforms to provide stand-alone capabilities or integrated with existing software via XML. 

If you’re looking for a CRM solution, Global Address has long-term high-level experience working with customers to establish interfaces with popular database and CRM solutions such as Siebel®, Oracle® and Peoplesoft®.

A Few Features...

Global Address Suite is based on a Unicode-compliant platform, with extended support and processing of exotic character sets (e.g. Japanese Kanji and Katakana). Some key features include:

  • Filter Wizard to create SQL queries for analysis

  • A Matrix Report on matchscores tabulates the "input data vs PAF" matchscore against the "input data vs formatted output data" matchscore. This quickly identifies those records most likely to benefit from human intervention, thus minimising the time spent on manual processing. You can drill down from the Matrix directly to the data records to further speed the process. A link to Excel can be used to produce charts for reporting.

  • A Global Field Update function allows users to add or replace fields (for example, missing countries or consistent misspellings).

  • A de-duplication key can be generated based on up to 7 user-selected fields, and the results viewed in a grid. The records can be accessed directly from the grid.

These powerful features really streamline the data cleaning processes, especially for improving new datasets (bought-in lists, other acquired sources etc) and for quality checking and address updating of your existing records.

 

Questions and Answers

  • Q. What is address management?

  • A. Address management is the process of ensuring that all postal address data retained by your organisation is current and accurate

  • Q. Why is it important?

  • A. Accurate address data not only ensures efficient deliveries, it can also be an organisation’s most important asset. This is because address data is often the key to identifying customers - the link for all information retained on each customer

  • Q. What is batch cleansing?

  • A. This is when existing, mixed address data is standardised, validated and corrected. The process ensures that addresses are in the correct format for each country and will compare the data to other sources - for example, to local postal authority data - to correct out-of-date information. Address data should be cleansed regularly so as to incorporate changes such as a new location or a change of postal/ZIP codes

  • Q. What is rapid addressing?

  • A. The aim behind rapid addressing is to ensure that all new names and addresses entered into your database are verified and accurate at the point of entry. In a contact center, for example, not only does this system ensure accurate data at the point of entry, but it can also speed up the process..............Go to top

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