What is an API?

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 ...
In Search of the Unique Address

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 ...
Choosing the Right Validation Service

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 ...
Holiday Shopping

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 ...
API Integration: How Much Time to Set Aside

API Integration: How Much Time to Set Aside

The question of ”how long does it take for someone to integrate your API?’ has come up a lot lately in various situations. In this article, I wanted ...
Reverse-Phone Look-Up: A Deep Dive

Reverse-Phone Look-Up: A Deep Dive

Our DOTS Geophone Plus, a reverse phone lookup service, is our top of the line phone validation service. This article provides a guided tour of some of the ...
Third-Party Platform Integration

Third-Party Platform Integration

Today I am writing about the ways to integrate with Service Objects APIs. This will be different from our other discussions where we talk about running batches and ...
Swagger/Open API Added to Developer’s Guides

Swagger/Open API Added to Developer’s Guides

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 ...
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Check Out Our Updated Developer Guides

We recently revamped our developer guides to make them more user-friendly. The information for each service has been broken into its component parts, to make each feature more ...