Service Objects – Data Quality Blog
DOTS Address Validation – US 3: Delivery Point Validation Explained
One of the features of our DOTS Address Validation – US 3 service is Delivery Point Validation, or DPV for short. DPV codes help you determine whether an address is recognized as deliverable by the USPS. But what do these codes mean? This article will explain it all to...
Sr. Applications Engineer
CRM, Marketing Automation and Data Quality
Do you use customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation platforms in your business? Or are you starting to dip your toe in the water and explore these tools? This blog post looks at how...
Director of Marketing
Windows Communication Framework (WCF): A New Framework for Developers
Our older data validation services are getting a refresh to help future-proof them as well as to enable JSON and XML responses. The underlying systems that support our web services are constantly being...
Application Engineer
To Collect or Not to Collect? Understanding Sales Tax Nexus
If you sell products and services across state lines, are you liable for collecting sales taxes? The answer is more complicated than you think nowadays – and it rhymes with “Lexus.” The concept of...
Marketing
The Trouble with Numeric and Fake-looking Chinese Email Addresses
If you were to encounter an email address that was comprised of just numbers, what would be your first reaction? You might suspect that it was a fake or disposable email address. But in some countries,...
Sr. Software Engineer
The Hidden Benefits of a Good Data Privacy Policy
In most areas of life, negative motivation alone will not create good results. (If you don’t believe me, ask your employees, or your teenage children – or take a look at what research has to say.) When...
Director of Marketing
Fun Facts About ZIP Codes
Addresses in the United States used to be a simple matter of a street location, a city and state, and perhaps a city-specific postal zone. But by the 1960s, between massive increases in mail volume and the...
Marketing
The Impact of AI on Customer Interactions
When you think of using artificial intelligence (AI) to improve customer experience, what comes to mind? Some people might (mistakenly) think of it as trying to replace human beings with Siri or Alexa,...
Director of Marketing
How to Pull and Update in a SQL Database with a DOTS Web Service
The Applications Engineering team at Service Objects prides itself on being integration experts. We are here to assist our clients and prospects in getting the most out of our services. Whether it is...
Applications Support Technician
Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude: Understanding Geocoding
When Jimmy Buffett sang the title of this blog post years ago, he may not have realized that he was talking about things like geocoding and data mining. But in point of fact, he was. In this post I would...
Marketing
