Garbage In, Garbage Out – How Bad Data Hurts Your Business
The old saying “garbage in, garbage out” has been around since the early days of modern computing. Code for operator error or bad data, the adage implies that ...
Better Sales Tax Matches with New FastTax Improvements
Service Objects has been returning location-based tax rates in the DOTS FastTax API since 2001. Back then, we identified sales tax rates using only zip code. Since zip ...
The Role Data Quality Plays in Master Data Management
Enterprises are dealing with more data than ever before, which means that proper information architecture and storage is crucial. What’s more, the quality of the data you store ...
Preventing Fraud Associated with the Freight Forwarding Industry
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’ ...
Protecting Your Business from Ecommerce Fraud
Most ecommerce merchants learn the hard way; orders and registrations from fraudulent sources cause financial, merchandise, and time losses. With the rise of mobile ecommerce and the proliferation ...
Why Google Maps Isn’t Perfect
Google Maps is an amazing service. Much of the civilized world has now been mapped through its data sources, ranging from satellite data to its ubiquitous camera-mounted vehicles ...
Data Quality and the 2020 Census
We talk a lot on these pages about how data quality affects your business. But once in a while, we also feel it is important to look at ...
Why Data Quality Isn’t a Do-It-Yourself Project
Here is a question that potential customers often ask: is it easier or more cost-effective to use data validation services such as ours, versus building and maintaining in-house ...
More Than an Address: What is a Delivery Point?
Most people think that they mail or ship things to addresses – and they would be wrong. And the reasons for this might be very important to your ...
