Leaking Profits? Plug up the UAA Drain!

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Are you struggling to keep printing postage and service costs down? One culprit that could be putting a drain on your profit is return mail. You’d be surprised how undeliverable-as-addressed mail (UAA) can operate like a small tax on your business – costing a little bit in a lot of areas. Turn to page 24 in Mailing Systems and Technology’s June issue to see Melissa’s article: Taking Action to Void Undeliverable-as-Addressed Mail.… Read More

Detailed Address Data Now Available for Canada and Italy in MAT

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Address data for Canada and Italy were added to Melissa Address Table (MAT)

Now you can get accurate and detailed information on every deliverable and non-deliverable address for not only the U.S., but also Canada and Italy. Melissa has information on more than:

  • 196 million U.S. addresses
  • 12 million Canadian addresses
  • 26 million Italian addresses

In addition to street addresses (including apartment/suite numbers), MAT also provides geographic information like rooftop latitude-longitude coordinates, census tract/block number, and county name with FIPS code.… Read More

Tips & Tricks for Global MatchUp Matching Strategies

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by Tim Sidor, Data Quality Analyst

In
the past we’ve discussed implementing different matching strategies based on how
you would like your records grouped. For example. By “Address”? or by “Name and
Address”. The former would match ‘John’ and ‘Mary Smith’ at the same household,
whereas the latter would identify them as unique entities.

 

For
Global processing, even after determining and selecting a general strategy,
‘Address’ for example, it might still require knowing the expected address
formats of the source data that needs to be compared and thus reevaluate the
logic.… Read More

Contact Zone and Pentaho Global Address On Premise: The World Inside Your Computer

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Previously, Melissa has offered our Global
Address web service in Contact Zone and Pentaho as a tool used to validate
addresses in 240+ countries and territories. Because this product was only
available as a web service in Contact Zone and Pentaho, there were certain
limitations that had come with this method of consuming this service. These
issues are now solved through the use of our on premise object.… Read More