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Newsletter - April 2003

Dear AddressDoctor users:

You are receiving this Newsletter because you have used our free postal code lookup or you have expressed interest in our products. If you do not wish to receive this newsletter, please read the unsubscribe instructions at the end of this page.

As a regular reader of our newsletter you may have noticed that we took a small break. Now we are ready and prepared to supply you with interesting news and developments. Here are the topics of this newsletter.

  • We have a new company name - Platon Data Technology GmbH
  • AddressDoctor at the HITEC show in New Orleans
  • AddressDoctor eCommerce - Outstanding reliability
  • AddressDoctor Enterprise - Do you speak Chinese?
  • The address format of Belgium

In the past we have received useful suggestions and ideas for future newsletters and we welcome your comments. Please contact us at editor@addressdoctor.com.

Your AddressDoctor team

We have a new company name - Platon Data Technology GmbH


Since March 1st 2003 we have a new company name

Platon Data Technology GmbH.

Except for the name nothing has changed. You can reach us using the same phone numbers and through our website http://www.addressdoctor.com.
AddressDoctor at the HITEC show in New Orleans


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From June 24 through June 26 we would like to invite you to visit us during the HITEC show in New Orleans. It is the industry event for travel and tourism technology..

Our booth number is 353.

Come by to see our demonstration of the AddressDoctor Enterprise version 4.0 and our other product innovations.
AddressDoctor eCommerce - a reliable service
Our reliability in the year 2002 was record breaking

We are very proud to announce that our eCommerce service had an availability exceeding

99.96%

This includes scheduled downtimes. We are very proud of our superior performance and consider this our key responsibility.

Learn more about AddressDoctor eCommerce

AddressDoctor Enterprise - Do you speak Chinese?


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A huge market? Also for direct marketing?

No matter if you intend to do direct marketing in China or if you simply want to deal with businesses in China the language is always a big obstacle..

AddressDoctor now offers a transliteration tool as part of the Enterprise version. Input of Hanzi characters are automatically transliterated into roman characters based on the Pinyin system for Mandarin and Cantonese.

The software has a user interface with GUI and a separate command line interface. It is also available as a set of software libraries for integration into other software.

Even if you cannot speak Chinese our solutions make the data more understandable. This is only one example of the powerful new features of AddressDoctor Enterprise.

Please contact your AddressDoctor representative at at +49 6237 9774 0 or 1-866-402-2800 today to request your free evaluation sales@addressdoctor.com.


The address format of Belgium

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In this section we answer your frequently asked questions on international addresses. Today's topic: the address format used in Belgium.

An address from Belgium has the following structure:

RECIPIENT
ROOM OR FLOOR
INDUSTRIAL AREA OR BUILDING
STREET BUILDING#
POSTALCODE TOWN
BELGIUM

The postal code consists of 4 digits.


Here are a few sample addresses:

Pieter Groot
 Hekelaarsstraat 9
9000 GENT
BELGIUM

Company N.V.
Atlaspark
route de Nandrin 12
4557 ABEE
BELGIUM



Please also note that Belgium has three official languages: Dutch, French and German while the German population is below 1%. Depending on the region some towns have more than one name and different street names in each language for the same street.

Of course all AddressDoctor products support the address format of Belgium.




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