Duplicate recognition and the postal validation of around 750 million consumer addresses enables professional data quality at an international level

Pforzheim, January 2006. Uniserv GmbH has announced that a total of around 750 million consumer addresses throughout the world can be currently checked and corrected by means of the expert systems for securing data quality offered by the Pforzheim-based company. As a result, more than 800 customers of the data quality specialist with more than 3,200 server installations are provided with the fundamental basis for keeping their address data up-to-date and redundancy-free, in order to support their business processes more efficiently and to secure a sustainable increase in their competitiveness. Long-standing users of Uniserv solutions include such well-known companies as Avis, Bertelsmann, Black & Decker, Ford, Hilti, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Sweet & Maxwell and TimeLife.

"It is imperative that national and international enterprises set up processes which meet the requirements of sustainability and continuity, in order to guarantee the quality of address data at all times - and precisely this objective can be systematically implemented by means of the Uniserv solutions, which perform a reliable worldwide check of the addresses and thereby provide crucial competitive advantages and cost savings", explains Roland Pfeiffer, CEO of Uniserv GmbH.

Consideration of local factors
In an era of ongoing internationalization and globalisation, the IT solutions used in the enterprise must be designed for multinational application. Against this background, Uniserv supplies software solutions for the economic areas of Europe and North America which use extensive reference data to enable duplicate recognition and complete postal validation by street and house number and which also take country-specific features into account. This results in an extremely high verification  and result quality, which in turn has a positive and permanent effect on the success of the company and leads to a rapid Return on Invest.

Quality is of prime importance
The extensive product portfolio of Uniserv is based on the objective of offering customers innovative standards with the maximum range of application and quality of the solution. Against this background, the Uniserv creed is as follows: the quality of address data is of the greatest importance for enterprises irrespective of their size or industry focus, in order to lay and secure a qualitative expert basis for decisions, processes and operative measures. A correct, redundancy-free, complete and up-to-date database, in which the various causes of superfluous data and data obsolescence, e.g. hearing errors, misspelling or misreading, are permanently and systematically avoided, is absolutely essential in this respect.