Service Objects – Data Quality Blog
What is an API?
API stands for Application Programming Interface. But what does that mean? Basically, APIs are a way for applications to communicate with each other across the web through specific inputs and outputs. In an abstract way, APIs and webpages have similar functionality. They...
Sr. Applications Engineer
What’s in a Name? The Importance of Global Name Validation
A quick online search of the US white pages shows that there are over 1500 real people named George Washington, more than 50 named William Shakespeare, and a surprising number of Steven Spielbergs. There...
Director of Marketing
Address Detective – A Deep Dive
Our DOTS Address Detective service is an address-based service looking to help clients clean up the most challenging of addresses. It works well as a secondary check to our DOTS Address Validation - US...
Director of Engineering
Santa’s Delivery Secret: Address Validation
With the holidays fast approaching, your customers will soon be shopping online and breaking last year’s sales records. They will be counting on your business to make sure all of their packages are...
Director of Marketing
In Search of the Unique Address
Some things seem simple on the surface, but aren’t so easy in reality – for example, programming your DVR, or building assemble-it-yourself furniture. In the world of contact data quality, we would add...
Sr. Software Engineer
What is Scarier than Halloween? Bad Data!
Halloween – which has its roots as an Irish celebration honoring the dead – is a night nowadays where children (and more than a few adults) dress in ghoulish costumes to scare people and get candy from...
Marketing
Choosing the Right Validation Service
Should you use a single-purpose or composite validation service for your lead or contact data? Put another way, do you have a singular data validation need, or have you collected multiple data points that...
Application Engineer
Is Your Contact Data Ready for Holiday Shopping?
As I write this article, it is now just over a month before the holiday shopping period that runs from Black Friday and Cyber Monday through the end of the year – a period that, for many retail and...
Marketing
What is RDI in Address Validation?
RDI or a Residential Indicator is a feature in our Address Validation products that indicates if the United States Postal Service (USPS) considers an address to be a residence or a business. It’s quite a...
Applications Support Technician
4 Best Practices for Automating Contact Record Data Validation
Contact records are one of your most valuable assets. According to Salesforce.com, 70% of your contact records will change in one way or another each year. Making sure that they are accurate and up-to date...
Marketing
