In The News: Application Development Trends - July 2004 "SOAP Interface for Data Quality Web Service (DQWS)"

Melissa Data has introduced a SOAP interface for Data Quality Web Service (DQWS), a data-entry verification service that can validate and correct postal addresses, update phone area codes, parse names and append gender, and spot fraudulent entries. The product can be used to verify customer leads generated from Web sites or call centers. After calling the Web service, addresses are verified to meet U.S. Postal Service requirements. The service first verifies, corrects and standardizes an address, and then appends a ZIP+4 code to it. It then links the address to a time zone, congressional district or county. It also returns latitude and longitude coordinates, which can be used to calculate distances. The product’s ZIP Data function can return all the cities served by a ZIP code, as well as return the ZIP codes available for a location. A Street Search feature can also be used to resolve multiple matches of street names.