Free Data Quality Tool from Melissa Data Enables 100% Accuracy in Address Auto-Completion

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Express Entry® Validates Addresses as They are Entered; Improves Online Experience and Eliminates Possibility of Incorrect Data

 

Rancho Santa Margarita, CALIF- February 4, 2014 – Melissa Data, a leading provider of contact data quality and integration solutions, today announced free availability of Express Entry®, the company’s address auto-completion tool designed to eliminate bad data at the source of entry.… Read More

Address Quality – Take 2

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By David Loshin

We have dealt with some of our core address quality concepts, but not this one:

The intended recipient must be associated with the deliverable address.

The problem here is no longer address quality but rather address
correctness.

The address may be complete, all the elements may be valid, the
ZIP+4 is the right one, and all values conform to standardized abbreviations …
and still be incorrect if the recipient is not associated with the
address!… Read More

Postal Standards and Address Quality – Take 1

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By David Loshin

The USPS Postal Standard (Publication 28) provides at least some of the specifications we need for address quality. For example,

 “The Postal Service defines a complete address as one that has all the address elements necessary to allow an exact match with the current Postal Service ZIP+4 and City State files to obtain the finest level of ZIP+4 and delivery point codes for the delivery address.”

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Validation, Standardization, and Correction: Tool or Process?

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By David Loshin

There are all sorts of tools associated with
address standardization, cleansing, and validation. As an example, the USPS
has a certification program for software vendors, referred to as CASS
(Coding Accuracy Support System)™ certification. According to their
website,

CASS enables the Postal Service™ to evaluate the accuracy of address matching software programs in the following areas:

(1) five-digit coding
(2) ZIP + 4/ delivery point (DP) coding
(3) carrier route coding
(4) DPV®
(5) DSF2®
(6) LACSLink®
(7) eLOT®
(8) RDI™ products

CASS allows vendors/mailers the opportunity to test their address-matching software packages and, after achieving a certain percentage of compliance, to be certified by the Postal Service.

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Context is Key to Measuring Data Quality

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By Elliot King

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, but that is not the case when it comes to data quality or, at least, it is not the whole story. Data quality can be measured along several different dimensions. But in the final analysis data quality depends on the context within which the data is used.

 Perhaps the most obvious criteria by which to measure data quality is
accuracy.… Read More