Post on 02-Jan-2016
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Global Address Verification Overview
Bud Walker, Admound Chou
Global Address Benefits
• Decrease mailing costs for shipping
• Standardize addresses for identity and matching purposes
• Use one service for your entire address database
• Uses MD’s CASS engine for US and Canada
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Global Address Benefits
• Handles UTF8 character sets and most writing systems
• Standardize addresses in actual mailing format of country
• Adds missing components to Address
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Global Address Benefits
• Output in native language or Roman
• Enhance segmentation by standardizing country name spellings and properly formatting postal codes
• No maintenance with the Web Service
• 100 records at a time vs. 10 with AddressDoctor
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Web Service Communication Protocols
Batch Processing
•SOAP•HTTP POST
• XML• JSON
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Single Record Processing
•HTTP GET• XML• JSON
Security: Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
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Technical Benefits
• Web Services make it easy to consume• No worries about Binary compatibility• WS Schemas don’t change• Provision new VMs as required (Licensed)• Flexible calling protocols• Stable multi threaded architecture (same as
commercial service) fast, robust, scalable• Supported by Melissa Data engineers• Unlimited Support incidents
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Internationalize FI Address Forms
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Countries and Territories
• Current Count: 240+ Countries and Territories• Levels of Address Data Available:
5 – Delivery Point
4 – Premise
3 – Thoroughfare
2 – Locality
1 - Country
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Input/Output Fields
• Input Fields• Standard Address inputs• Up to 8 Address lines
• Output Fields• Verified/Corrected Address• Formatted Address• Parsed Address• Geocoding (Lat/Long)
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Request
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Response
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Results
• Status
• Changes• House number, Street Name, Suffix….
• Errors• Unknown Street, Multiple Match, Invalid Postal
Code…
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Options
• Country of origin• Used for the Formatted Address Output
• Character set• Latin• Native
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UPDATE SCHEDULE
• Global Data Updates will be made available to Fisher on an Quarterly Schedule via download
• Countries required by FI will be custom packaged• Library Updates will be available semi annually• Web Service code will be updated if required.
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Questions?