Service Objects – Data Quality Blog
Address Insight for US Addresses – A Deep Dive
Introduction Our DOTS Address Insight – US API is a composite address-based service that provides insight and intelligence for a given location. The service has three core areas: Address validation to validate the address itself, address geocoding to provide location...
Director of Engineering
Corporate Conservation: A 2020 Update
If you are familiar with Service Objects as a company, you probably know that one of our core values is protecting the environment. It was the reason our company was founded in 2001, and remains at the...
Marketing
Using DOTS Name Validation 2 for De-Duping Names
De-duping data is one of the most popular uses of our services, and for good reasons: duplicated data can lead to redundancy, extra costs, waste and even lack of customer engagement. In this blog post, we...
Applications Support Technician
Best Practices for Address Validation
Your contact data is the lifeblood of your business. Today, having accurate address data is more critical than ever—it affects your customer reputation, mailing and shipping costs, the efficacies of your...
Marketing
US Address Validation Use Cases
Why do people use our DOTS Address Validation – US product? There are many reasons to choose our service that really depends on your business or project. At the highest level, our clients have a goal of...
Sr. Applications Engineer
Trends Impacting Data Validation in 2020
A new year is upon us. And 2020 promises to be a very exciting and eventful year in the data quality business. One of the things I personally enjoy about being in this profession is keeping up with...
Director of Marketing
Our Top 5 Blog Posts of 2019
We love educating our clients. And we did quite a bit of it in 2019, with over 100 blog posts. Our blog, featuring informative articles and detailed user tips, is one of the most popular features of the...
Marketing
IP Addresses: A Lesser-Known (But Important) Piece of Contact Data
When you gather contact data for leads and customers, some items are obvious: name, mailing address, and email to name a few. But in some cases, it makes sense to check another data point: their IP...
Marketing
The Latest Trends in Fraud and Identity Verification
Fraud is big business nowadays, and 2019 has been no exception. According to IDology’s Seventh Annual Fraud Report, overall levels of fraud remain similar to previous years, with online fraud reported to...
Director of Marketing
IP address vs domain in an email address
Some of your contact email addresses may contain an IP address, for example, john.smith@[123.123.123.123] rather than a domain name, such as john.smith@example.com. Can you use these email addresses for...
Sr. Software Engineer
