Apatar Open Source Data Integration Improves the Quality of Customer Data with
StrikeIron US Address Verification
Apatar’s new data quality service allows users to instantly
validate and enhance any US address before it enters CRM/ERP systems,
databases, flat files, and RSS feeds, all without coding
April 2, 2008, Chicopee, MA - Apatar, Inc., the leading provider of open source
software tools for the data integration market, announced the official release
of its new StrikeIron US Address Verification connector for the Apatar Open
Source Data Integration toolset. Using StrikeIron’s US Address Verification Web
service, the new feature relies on United States Postal Service-certified
technology to verify, correct, and enhance any address in the United States
with live data. It cleans customer data before it gets into CRM/ERP systems,
databases, flat files, and RSS feeds by correcting extracted addresses, adding
ZIP+4 data, specifying congressional districts, carrier routes, and much more.
Improving customer data quality without coding
According to Aberdeen Group, 52 percent of organizations consider the
“verification of data accuracy or completeness” to be one of the biggest
customer data management challenges. Apatar is the first company to release
open source tools for non-technical staff and customers to access the
application data they need to make their work efforts more efficient. With
Apatar’s visual toolset, your average users can perform even complex data
integration without having to write a single line of a code. The new data
quality connector was created as a result of a partnership agreement with
StrikeIron, Inc., the worldwide leader of Web services commercialization
through the StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace™.
The StrikeIron US Address Verification connector closely inspects each address
to ensure its validity and, using sophisticated matching and data
synchronization technology, updates incorrect addresses according to the postal
standards. On top of that, it inspects house numbers, street directions, street
names, street types, apartment numbers, and P.O. boxes to ensure the accuracy
of each value. StrikeIron’s Web service processes and returns a valid quality
dataset with all possible mistakes (misspellings, wrong street type extensions,
city and state names) eliminated. Using StrikeIron’s US Address Verification
Web service, Apatar allows users to increase productivity, improve sales
strategies, and take customer service to a new level by providing faster
transaction processing and higher accuracy. This solution can be used to verify
both a single address and a large set of addresses in batch mode.
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“Quality data is the life blood of all business processes,” said Renat
Khasanshyn, CEO and founder of Apatar. “Every organization depends on reliable
customer information. But, too often the quality of data doesn’t keep pace with
the development of business processes and doesn’t live up to corporate
requirements for effective, reliable, and controlled data. The StrikeIron US
Address Verification connector can assist you in the process, creating a
competitive working environment.”
“StrikeIron’s US Address Verification Web service significantly reduces the time
and cost associated with incorrect or incomplete addresses,” said Bob Brauer,
CEO and president of StrikeIron. “Available as an integrated Web service in
Apatar’s toolset, it provides the benefits of correct and complete address
information without data maintenance and update hassles. This integration
enables high quality and complete customer and prospect information within CRM
applications, Web sites, databases, flat files, and interactive services
without any programming or separate processes, rendering the applications that
use this type of data much more effective.”
Apatar Open Source Data Integration features and benefits:
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Improve data quality
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Reduce integration and maintenance costs, shorten implementation time
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No coding! Visual job designer and mapping enable non-developers to design and
perform transformations
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The ability to create, publish, share, and re-use data transformations and
output to RSS feeds by monitoring keywords and URLs for both internal and
external systems
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Connectivity to Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, Sybase, Microsoft Access, PostgreSQL,
InstantDB, BorlandJDataStore, Csv, Qed, HSQL, Compiere ERP, SalesForce.Com,
SugarCRM, GoldMine, Microsoft Excel, XML, RSS, ATOM, FTP, POP3, LDAP, WebDav,
Autodesk Buzzsaw, any JDBC data sources, Amazon S3, and Flickr
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Job scheduler and synchronization
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Platform-independent, runs from Windows and Linux; 100% Java-based
StrikeIron US Address Verification features and benefits:
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Applicable with a single address or as a batch process
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Validates and corrects addresses and adds ZIP+4 data
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Appends carrier routes
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Standardizes city and state names
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Gives location latitude and longitude
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Provides means to validate any shipment’s address before it is sent to avoid
costly returns and late delivery
Related links
StrikeIron US Address Verification user guide:
http://www.apatarforge.org/wiki/display/DQS/StrikeIron+US+Address+Verification
Pre-created DataMap:
http://www.apatarforge.org/remository/apatar-data-mashup-contest/us-address-verification.html
Pricing
Apatar Open Source is available for free download at www.apatar.com. Commercial
support and maintenance subscription packages start at $1,900 per year.
StrikeIron Email Verification and US Address Verification Web services are
available for subscription from StrikeIron. Free trials are also available.
About Apatar
Apatar is the leading provider of open source software tools for the data
integration market. With powerful Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL)
capabilities, Apatar enables its users to easily link information between
databases (such as MySQL, Microsoft SQL, Oracle), applications (Salesforce.com,
SugarCRM), and the top Web 2.0 destinations (Flickr, Amazon S3). Apatar
provides support, training, and consulting services for its integration
solutions. Headquartered in Western Massachusetts, Apatar operates a
development center in Minsk, Belarus. Apatar is currently used by 250
organizations and individuals worldwide. For more on Apatar, please visit
www.apatar.com or
www.apatarforge.org.
More information is available at Apatar’s Online Press Room:
www.apatar.com/newsroom.
About StrikeIron
StrikeIron is the leader in providing innovative solutions for delivering data
over the emerging Internet. The company’s innovative Web Services Marketplace
provides a technology platform, micro-transaction management and a consistent
interface across many XML-based Web services from multiple, diverse sources.
This allows business users, application developers and enterprise IT
professionals to customize and integrate external data sources and additional
external functionality into enterprise, Web, and composite applications.
Currently, StrikeIron provides over 100 live data sources and business
functions from organizations such as Cortera, D&B, Gale, MapQuest, Midnight Trader,
Tax Data Systems, The Sports Network, and Zacks.
StrikeIron also offers IronCloud™, the only comprehensive Web services delivery
platform that opens up new channels for data distribution and consumption
through Web Services. Enterprises of all sizes can now reduce the cost and
complexity of managing the challenges of data distribution which include
leveraging an existing external hardware and software architecture, controlling
and metering access and usage, external monitoring for 24x7 reliability, full
usage analytics, as well as multiple authentication scenarios and instead
concentrate their focus on making information easier for partners, customers,
and distributed business units to access and use. StrikeIron delivers value to
over 1,500 customers and partners such as Avaya, BEA, Delivery.com, IBM, Honda
Europe, D&B, Siemens, Nike, Swarovski, ShoeBuy, and Exclusive Resorts. For
more information, visit www.strikeiron.com.
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Alena Semeshko
Apatar Evangelist
Apatar, Inc.
(213) 784-4915
alena.s@apatar.com