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Dear Customers and Business Partners,

Many exciting news are awaiting you this fall

- AddressDoctor has been CASS certified in August
- Argentinean data is available as an updated dataset
- Significant speed improvements have been made to the    AddressDoctor engine
- 64-Bit support is on its way

These are just some of the exciting news discussed in this Newsletter. Please read on to learn more and find out why AddressDoctor products are the right choice for your address quality problems

With highest regards,

Sven Schreiber
Managing Director
 

In August the United States Postal Service (USPS) awarded a CASS certification to an AddressDoctor software product. The powerful software libraries are now part of the standard AddressDoctor offering.

The US is probably the largest market for address data quality products. For many years the CASS certification has been the quality benchmark for software products. During the certification process a set of 150000 "prepared" addresses has to be processed with 98.5% accuracy. As a result of the certification process all AddressDoctor products are now capable of returning ZIP+4 codes for US addresses.

Detailed information on the CASS certification process can be found on the USPS Web Site

http://www.usps.com/ncsc/addressservices/certprograms/cass.htm

CASS processing is available trough the Web Services and the CERTIFIED processing mode of the software libraries. Using this mode, software vendors can integrate a CASS certifiable component into their products. More information on the AddressDoctor software libraries is available at

http://www.addressdoctor.com/en/products/software/default.asp

Since March e-Mail marketing company eCircle AG has been using the AddressDoctor Data Quality Center to improve the quality of their postal address data.

eCircle has access to over 36 million E-Mail addresses and is one of the largest E-Mail marketing companies in Europe.

Using the AddressDoctor Data Quality Center eCircle customers' data can be validated and cleaned up from duplicates and address errors. "The integrated Self-Service-Solution of AddressDoctor has impressed us very much", says Christopher Kollat, Head of Media Product Management for eCircle, "without annoying waiting periods we can use the system from several locations at the same time - even on weekends".

The AddressDoctor Data Quality Center is an efficient, browser based online solution for address quality. Besides postal address validation, change of address processing (NCOA), duplicate identification and other enrichment is available. All these functions are available as a self service offering.

Read more about eCircle at

http://www.ecircle-ag.com/

After a long time we are proud to offer a new Argentinian data set. Released in October we offer a complete data set containing more than 2 million street addresses for the entire country. Of course the new dataset includes the updated postal code of Argentina post.

Address format

In 1999 the postal code (CPA, Código Postal Argentino) format of Argentina changed from a block of 4 digits to a block of 8 alphanumeric characters that are placed to the left of the locality name and describe an address as follows:

The first character is called the prefix and the last three the suffix. The new postal code contains a province indicator in the prefix, so the province name is no longer required as a separate part of the address. The four digits in the new code are usually the same as in the 1999 4 digit code. The suffix now identifies a group of buildings within Code.

Argentinean addresses are written in the following format:

RECIPIENT
STREETNAME HOUSENUMBER - CORNER -
[FLOOR/DEPARTMENT/DISTRICT_INFORMATION]
POSTALCODE CITY
ARGENTINA

• Example:
  
  Ernesto Sabato
  Calle Carlos Pellegrini 961 - 3er Piso -
  C1009ABS Buenos Aires
  ARGENTINA
  

The Post Office Box designator is called Casilla de Correos in Argentina. A PO box address would look as follows:

RECIPIENT
Casilla de Correos POST_OFFICE_BOX_NUMBER
[NAME_OF_POST_OFFICE]
POSTALCODE CITY
ARGENTINA

• Example:
  
  Jorge Luis Borges
  Casilla de Correos 67
  A4126AAB Tala
  ARGENTINA
  

AddressDoctor products will help you to properly output addresses according to the rules above.

Speed increase of up to 800% over previous versions

Along with the CASS certification our engineers have been busy with processing enhancements to the AddressDoctor engine. "This is probably the fastest AddressDoctor engine ever", says Adrian Zimny, Platon's Director of Software Development. Version 4.1.7.264 that was just released offers speed and enhancements of up to 800% over previous versions. See the graph at

http://www.addressdoctor.com/en/news_events/2006/20061016.asp

64-Bit support on the horizon

With increasing data volumes in Data Warehouses and Master data management projects the demand for more speed is obvious. Not only has the AddressDoctor team been busy increasing the speed of the engine, they have also worked on a 64-Bit version that will be available as part of the 4.1.7 release shortly.

Improved processing for India

A country where the unusual is the usual is probably an accurate description, at least for addresses from India. More than one billion people with various ethnic background live in India. Addresses show a wide variety as a consequence. A new data set for India is now available as part of the AddressDoctor products. It offers a much improved processing especially for large cities like Mumbai or Delhi.

IBM and Platon announce partnership

It was a sunny Monday morning when Platon and IBM announced their new partnership at the Information on Demand Conference in Anaheim, California. Both parties plan to work together to develop integrated solutions that support the IBM Information Server and provide a scaleable, high performance framework for cleansing, transforming, and delivering information consistently and securely throughout the enterprise. Read the full press release at

http://www.addressdoctor.com/en/news_events/PM061016.asp

Platon at the IRM UK

Visit Platon at the IRM UK: Data Management, Information Quality & Meta Data Conference Europe, October 30th through November 2nd in London.

Platon is located at booth 22 in the Registration Area. For further information look at

http://www.irmuk.co.uk/dm2006

Royal Mail changes its pricing structure

Effective September 2007 the Royal Mail will change its pricing structure. Current prices will only be valid for orders up and until August 2007. Once the implications of the new pricing model have been finalized we will advise our customers of the changes.

AddressDoctor Interactive world map

Have a look at the AddressDoctor interactive country coverage map at

http://www.AddressDoctor.com/en/products/ressources/countrylist.asp

that gives you a detailed overview of the country coverage for the AddressDoctor products.