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Fix Bad Addresses With Contact Zone for ACT! ®
New add-on from Melissa Data delivers corrected and enhanced data in real time to contact records.
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA—May 15, 2003— Melissa Data, a leading provider of data quality software and services, today announced the release of Contact Zone for ACT! ® Contact Zone checks the validity of addresses and phone numbers and provides data correction directly to ACT! records over the Internet.
In just seconds, Contact Zone verifies street addresses, adds ZIP codes, corrects misspellings, updates area codes, calculates distances, identifies gender, and appends geographic information.
Contact Zone delivers the most current data in real time without requiring users to cut and paste or manage pop-up windows. The information is sent via XML interface to Melissa Data’s Web servers, corrected, and returned to the same fields on the ACT! screen.
Developed originally for Microsoft Outlook® Contact Zone has been extended to Best Software’s popular ACT! manager and soon will be available for GoldMine.
“Accurate data is at the heart of today’s business success,” said Raymond Melissa, president of Melissa Data. “The fact that up to 40 percent of address and phone errors occur at the initial time of entry underscores the need for regular data correction.”
“Sending mail or parcels to the wrong address or dialing a bad phone number is a waste of time and money,” Melissa added. “Contact Zone makes the sales process more effective. With accurate, updated information sales professionals can work faster with better results, disqualifying dead ends so they can focus on their best prospects.”
Users have the option to verify information in a single record at the time of data entry, or in all contact records at once by using auto-batch tools. What’s more, Contact Zone helps reduce fraud by identifying doubtful address and phone number combinations, by showing the distance between the ZIP code and area code prefix. The program is a timesaver. You can save keystrokes when inputting addresses in ACT! because Contact Zone fills in city and state names by entering a ZIP code.
With Contact Zone, ACT! users can:
Improve address data
* Verify and correct all U.S. and Canadian addresses
* Standardize all addresses
* Add CASS-certified ZIP+4 and Canadian postal codes.
Update phone numbers
* Verify U.S. and Canadian phone numbers
* Get the latest U.S. area code changes
* Get the city and state of U.S. phone numbers
* Get the time zone for every phone number
Pinpoint locations
* Add carrier route and delivery point codes
* Add county, census block, and census tract
* Calculate distances between phone and addresses locations
Verify status
* Save the verification of each address
* Perform lookups based on address status criteria
Contact Zone is powered by Melissa Data’s MAILERS+4 CASS-certified address verification engine—a guarantee that records are being verified to meet Unites States Postal Service specifications for accuracy. Contact Zone matches address data against the USPS database of 140 million deliverable addresses.
A 15-day trial version of Contact Zone for ACT! is available for download at
www.MelissaData.com/cz . Contact Zone requires at least 64 MB of RAM and 6 MB of disk space. ACT! ® is a product of Best Software, CRM Division, Scottsdale, AZ.
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
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