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...
We recently published a blog that took a deep dive into our reverse-phone lookup service, DOTS GeoPhone Plus. That blog highlighted some of the ins, out and returns of our service, largely focusing on some...
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...
If you are interested in international address validation then you are likely interested in our DOTS Address Validation International API. This service provides fuzzy matching, corrections and validation...
If you have poked around our Developer’s Guides recently, you may have noticed some changes and upgrades. We have introduced some stylistic changes that make these guides easier on the eye, but we’re...
If you have ever run into a unique ZIP code while doing address lookups or validation, then there is a good chance that they may have caused some confusing results for you. Take the following address as...
If you have spent any time around our DOTS Lead Validation or DOTS Lead Validation International services you may have run across the input to the service, 'TestType'. This input is arguably one of the...
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...
In November 2018, we published the blog, Best Practices for Phone Exchange 2 International, introducing you to one of our phone validation services and its operations. Here in this blog, we drill down and...
Having extra information about phone numbers can be invaluable to a business for several reasons. It can help fight fraud, support TCPA compliance and give an extra boost in insight about how and when to...
What’s in a name? Hopefully, valuable contact data for your business. But some names clearly contain red flags for bad data – and that’s where we come in. Name Validation is a very effective tool...
Service Objects is committed to fighting fraud and bad data wherever we see it. Through our APIs, best practices when handling sensitive data, or through recommendations on clients’ business logic, we...
Who is Service Objects? We are a data validation company that aims to cleanse, append and enhance our customers' contact data. We are fanatical about data quality, customer service and our 99.999% uptime...
Whether it is to comply with GDPR, cleanse emails for a mailing campaign, or ensure that new users provide you with a deliverable email address, DOTS Email Validation 3 (EV3) is a powerful tool that will...
Email and email validation technologies continue to evolve and it is increasingly important that businesses keep up with these changes to ensure they are protected and getting the most out of their email...
DOTS Lead Validation International is easily our most robust and valuable service. This service improves the quality of your leads by correcting or eliminating unreliable contact record data while...
DOTS Address Validation 3 is one of our most popular services – for good reason! This service is robust and good at what it does. Our powerful CASS certified engine provides our customers with quick and...
You know what it is like when that new phone doesn’t get a dial tone, or your router isn’t getting an internet signal. In much the same way, connectivity issues are an annoying but common part of...
Whenever I am in the process of making a new purchase, I do quite a bit of research before I buy. There are many reasons I do the research. I like to know all the technical details and features; satisfy my...
Here at Service Objects, we are dedicated to helping our clients integrate our data quality services as quickly as possible. One of the ways we help is educating our clients on the best ways to integrate...
Customer Service Above All. It is one of our core values here at Service Objects. Recently, we've received several requests for a list of the unique zip codes throughout the US and Canada. By leveraging...
As part of our commitment to making our data quality solutions easy to integrate, our Application Engineering team has developed a series of tutorials on how to integrate our services. The series...
Service Objects is committed to constantly improving the experience our clients and prospective clients have with our data quality solutions. This desire to ensure a great experience has led us to revamp...
Here at Service Objects, we strive to improve our services to best meet our customers' needs. Sometimes that means adding additional features and upgrades, tweaking an existing service and/or operation,...
There can be a lot of “i’s” to dot and “t’s” to cross when integrating with any API. Here at Service Objects, we certainly recognize there can be a lot on the to-do list when starting an...
Watch this video and hear Service Objects’ Application Engineer, Dylan, as he presents a 22 minute step-by-step tutorial on how to integrate an API using C#. In order to participate in this tutorial,...
List processing is one of the many options Service Objects offers for validating your data. This option is ideal for validating large sets of existing data when you'd rather not set up an API call or would...
The reality about any set of residential customer data is that given enough time, addresses and the people living there are bound to change. Occasionally, businesses and organizations can rely on the...
Java is easily one of the most popular programming languages in the world. It is a general purpose language that users have managed to implement in a variety of applications. It is popular with web...
One of our primary goals as Application Engineers at Service Objects, is to do whatever we can to ensure that clients and prospective clients get up and running with their DOTS validation service and...
Python is a versatile, robust scripting language that can be used for a variety of projects and implementations. One thing that separates Python from other programming languages is its use of white space...
We live in an age where an overabundance of information and resources are just a few clicks away. Even physical goods can be delivered to your front door the very same day you order. People want and...
C# may very well be our most requested sample code. There is good reason for that too; C# and the .NET framework are many developer’s first choice for creating a web page or any other type of application...
Ruby on Rails (or more colloquially, “Rails”) is a server-side web application framework that provides its users a powerful arsenal to create web pages, web services and database structures. Rails...
A few weeks ago we published a blog article titled “Why You Should Never Put Sensitive Data in Your JavaScript” and it described some of the dangers that accompany client-side scripts like...
Here at Service Objects, we are constantly working to improve or add useful features to our services so we can continue to be an industry leader in providing our customers with quality data. We are always...
If you are using an Address Validation service for shipping labels, then you may occasionally run into character limitations with the Address1 field. Whether you are using UPS, Fedex or another shipping...
Salesforce is a great CRM that allows businesses to easily put customers at the center of their attention. But even a tool like Salesforce can be halted by poor quality customer data. Well, luckily for...
