Benefits
Business often demands access to resources on an as-needed, immediate basis. Global commerce demands 24x7x365 responsiveness. This demand was the genesis of Global-Z’s award winning* online global address standardization service.
Global-Z’s RealTime™ Enhanced Global Address Cleansing service is at the core of our unique data management technology and we offer it to you around the clock and around the calendar. In real-time, our process determines the accuracy of an address, and whether it’s correctable. It then corrects addresses and formats them to the unique requirements of each country’s postal system, giving you:
- Support for both single-byte and multi-byte name and address data (e.g., Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Cyrillic, Greek and other non-Western alphabets.)
- Immediate access to accurate global address data
- Flexibility of single- and/or batch-record processing
- Improved mail delivery
- Lower costs due to fewer undeliverable returns
- Improved image for your company
- Increased ROI
Global address validation technology made available to you over the Internet—securely—on your schedule!
The Service
Global-Z’s RealTime™ Enhanced Global Address Cleansing system can be configured in a number of different ways, depending on your requirements. We currently support two different methods of data transfer:
1. Batch processing via file transfer
Our system regularly polls for files, and any new files are retrieved, processed and returned to the appropriate location.
2. Single, record-by-record real-time processing via internet transfer
Data transfer is session-based, configured to accept single-record feeds.
Global-Z’s Online Batch and our single, record-by-record Address Standardization service provides direct marketers with a low-cost real-time automated address cleaning solution. The service provides marketers with a fast, cost-effective way to process, clean and standardize international address files of any size and at any frequency, and utilizes Global-Z’s superior proprietary international address hygiene technology.
How it Works
In real-time, our proprietary software analyzes and parses each address, and matches the address elements against the postal authority data for the destination country. If elements are missing, misspelled or incorrect, the software inserts or corrects the information, including postal codes. Once this has been done, the address is reconstructed according to the postal authority databases.
Two easy steps…
Client Global-Z International
- You send your data to Global-Z;
- We send standardized, cleansed data back to you.
What happens behind the scenes…
- You generate a properly formatted data stream;
- You send your data stream via an HTTPS post;
- We receive your data;
- We read the data stream from input;
- We process the data;
- We export the results into a properly formatted data structure;
- We return the data stream to you;
- You receive the resulting processed data;
- You verify and process the data stream.
Global-Z will provide a monthly processing summary report indicating the number of addresses submitted and processed. We can provide samples of these reports for your reference.
Mail Quality Codes
Our proprietary Mail Quality Code is assigned to every address processed. The code indicates the accuracy of the address, specifies whether or not the address could be corrected, and classifies the address as deliverable, undeliverable or uncorrectable. This allows pinpoint accuracy in determining which addresses can be successfully delivered to your prospects.
Contact Us today to discuss how your company can best benefit from Global-Z’s Online Global Address Standardization.
* 2009 US DMA Future Innovators Award winner
2006 DM Business New Product Award winner for Data Integrity and Accuracy