Melissa Data Teams With Platon Media to Deliver Global Address Verification Services

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA—January 22, 2003—Data quality software provider Melissa Data today broadened its international address verification services with the addition of AddressDoctor, a product of Platon Media Solutions GmbH and Deutsche Post Global Mail.

Developed in association with country-specific postal administrators, AddressDoctor is the world’s most complete reference database of global addresses and postal codes. 

AddressDoctor appends postal codes, corrects misspellings, parses and standardizes address elements, and formats addresses for more than 200 countries and territories throughout the world. The product also matches addresses to detailed street-level directories for more than 40 countries.

“Accurate address information is critical for companies who are competing in the global economy,” said Ray Melissa, president of Melissa Data. “With hundreds of different address formats and postal codes, companies that are mailing or shipping from one country to another need to understand the many variations of how addresses should be written.”

“Address validation is a first step in securing postal discounts throughout the world,” said Sven Schreiber, managing director, Platon Media Solutions. “Also, people in other countries expect to receive mail that has a local look including properly formatted addresses.” 

Multiple interface options, including software for batch processing, an XML Web service, and components for developers, ensure that AddressDoctor will meet the needs of any global mailer or e-commerce business. For desktop users, a global postal reference directory containing postal data for 188 countries is priced at just $250. Updated annually, this two-disk set contains six language interfaces.

About Melissa Data
Celebrating its 20th year in business, Melissa Data, the Data Superstore, helps companies manage and optimize their contact data. Melissa Data provides solutions for address and phone number validation, postal coding, data enhancements and sales leads. Every day more than 70,000 people visit the company’s Web site. A powerful line of software, databases, programming tools, and hygiene services has made Melissa Data a recognized leader in the data quality industry. For more information, or to request trial software, contact Melissa Data at 1-800-800-6245 or visit www.melissadata.com