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February 27, 2020March 17, 2020 Melissa UK Team CRM, Data Audit, Data Cleansing, Data Enhancement, Data Enrichment, Data Management, Data Matching, Data Quality, Data Quality Services, Deduping, Email Verification, Global Address Verification

CRM Maintenance: A Step by Step Guide on How to Clean & Maintain your CRM Database

As many of you know, a customer relationship management (CRM) platform is a vital part of the sales process, which entails keeping customers and prospects happy while moving them through the CRM pipeline. But many businesses forget the role CRM plays in the entire customer life cycle. CRM platforms can be used for continuous communications with current and potential prospects…

December 27, 2019March 17, 2020 Address Verification, Canada Post, Data Cleansing, Data Enrichment, Data Quality, Direct Mail, Express Entry, Listware Online, Mailers, Matching, NCOA, Tips & Solutions

5 Easy Resolutions to Keep a Clean Database in 2020

80% of New Year’s resolutions are abandoned as early as February! Are you going to keep yours this year? We hope you do! That’s why we’re sharing the 5 easiest resolutions (that you can actually keep) to build and maintain a clean database in 2020. Meet the two tools that will make it possible: Listware Online and Mailers Online. These…

May 30, 2019May 30, 2019 Melissa Team Case Studies, Case Study, Data Cleansing, Data Quality, Data Quality Services

Quality is the Missing Link in HealthLink’s Million+ Database

HealthLink depends on their data. And the company has a lot of it – it operates the largest multisourced database of active practicing physicians and allied health professionals. Their database helps the pharmacy, healthcare, medical device and insurance industries efficiently target their primary markets. With so much data to collect and manage, HealthLink recognized it was critical to implement a…

May 13, 2019May 9, 2019 Melissa Team Article, Big Data, Data Cleansing, Data Governance, Data Quality

How to Drain a Murky, Big Data Swamp

Gathering data without proper governance can turn data lakes into data swamps – devoid of metadata management, rife with duplication, plagued with errors, and presenting an opaque view of your operations. But Big Data verification and governance solutions can transform expanding data volumes into trusted, actionable information across the enterprise. Melissa’s V.P. of Enterprise Sales and Strategy, Bud Walker, shares…

April 22, 2019April 17, 2019 Melissa Team Address Quality, Article, Big Data, Data Cleansing, Data Governance, GDPR, Global Address Verification, Global Business, Global Data Quality, Global Email, Global ID Verification, Global IP Locator, Global Name, Global Phone Verification, Golden Record, Identity Resolution

Is Your Data GDPR Compliant Yet?

If you work with data, or if data is important to your brand, you’ve no doubt heard about GDPR. The General Data Protection Regulation is a piece of legislation which came into effect across the European Union on May 25, 2018. It not only affects European organizations, but any companies worldwide who market and have eCommerce operations that reach a…

April 17, 2019 Melissa Team Address Correction, Address Standardization, Address Validation, Address Verification, Customer Identities, Data Cleansing, Data Enhancement, Data Enrichment, Demographics, Digital Identity Verification, Ecommerce, eIDV, EIV, Email Verification, Full Contact Authentication, Geocoding, Global Address Verification, Global ID Verification, Global Phone Verification, Identity Resolution, International Address Verification, Personator World

Capturing Current & Correct Customer Data – Why is it so Important in E-Commerce?

Up Close & Personal – The Four P’s of People Data Nothing holds more value for ecommerce organizations than accurate people data – name, address, phone, email and demographics. We have outlined four major factors that impact the success of a business and increase customer satisfaction in regards to accurate and complete people data. 1. Protect your organization – By…

April 2, 2019 Author Address Check, Address Correction, Address Quality, Address Standardization, Address Validation, Address Verification, Case Studies, Case Study, Clean Suite, Data Cleansing, Data Quality, Data Quality Services, Global Address Verification, Global Data Quality

Rinsing Out Bad Patient Data Increased Efficiency for Dental School

Unverified and outdated address data plagued the database of the University of Iowa’s School of Dentistry, having a tremendous effect on the communication with its patients. Check out this case study to see how the dental school rinsed out bad data, continues to maintain sparkly clean patient records, and most importantly, increased operational efficiency. Mailing has always been an integral…

March 6, 2019March 5, 2019 Author Address Check, Address Correction, Address Quality, Address Standardization, Address Validation, Address Verification, Analyzing Data, Analyzing Data Quality, Article, Big Data, BusinessCoder, Canada Post, Canadian Change of Address, CASS Certification, Clean Suite, Data Cleansing, Data Enhancement, Data Enrichment, Data Matching, Data Profiling, Data Quality, Demographics, Digital Identity Verification, Direct Mail, Duplicate Elimination, eIDV, Email Append, Email Marketing, Email Verification, Firmographics, Fuzzy Matching, Geocoding, Global Address Verification, Global Data Quality, Global Email, Global ID Verification, Global IP Locator, Global Name, Global Phone Verification, Golden Record, HIPAA, Householding, Identity Resolution, International Address Verification, IP Location, Location Intelligence, Mailing & Shipping, Mailing Lists, Marketing, MAT, Matching, MDM, Melissa Developer, Melissa Informatics, NCOA, News & Events, PAVE Certified, Presorting, Press Release, Property Data, Quick Tips, Record Linkage, Tips & Solutions, U.S. Property Service, Web API

Melissa Offers Insight on How a Healthy Data Lifecycle Supports Smart Business Decisions

New Resource Touts the Importance of Full Spectrum Protection to Combat Data Pitfalls Rancho Santa Margarita, CALIF – March 6, 2019 – Melissa, a leading provider of global contact data quality and identity verification solutions, today announced availability of the 2019 Melissa Solutions Catalog, a new resource that shares a wealth of information on the importance of good data, including how…

February 21, 2019 Author Big Data, Data Cleansing, Data Quality, Global Data Quality

The Half-Life of Data

Data is the new oil of the digital economy. Effectively used, data can help organizations to better understand customer needs and provide winning strategies to meet them. But the data you depend on to make these important decisions is always in flux. In The Half-Life of Data, Bud Walker, Vice President of Enterprise Sales and Strategy for Melissa, breaks down…

January 28, 2019 Author Data Cleansing, Duplicate Elimination, GDPR

Google Gets Nailed for GDPR

Today is Data Privacy Day! A good day to remind our readers about GDPR data privacy regulations and those pesky goalposts. If you haven’t been keeping up, the GDPR hammer is coming down hard and fast on tech giants like Google, who was recently hit with a fine totaling 50 million Euros (about $57,192,500) by France’s data protection regulator CNIL.…