Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 07:57:22 -0800
Reply-To: Roger DeAngelis <xlr82sas@AOL.COM>
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From: Roger DeAngelis <xlr82sas@AOL.COM>
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Subject: Re: address field - cleaning and separating
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Inexpensive off the shelf packages for address and name
standardization:
The best deal I have seen out there is www.semaphorecorp.com ($79.00?)
Semaphore used to give away a little Windows Name Parser executable.
I have used the Name parser software with SAS batch, but have not used
Semaphores address standardization
The premier software is Group1, but can easliy cost upwards of
$100,000
on a large IBM mainframe. SAS DataFlux software is less expensive, but
not an order of magnitue less($40k?). On the NT2000/XP platforms there
are Accumail (Group1 spinoff? UNIX other platforms $10k?),
MIRUS($10k?) and Mailers+4($500?).
I all fairness, some of the packages above do more than address
stadarization,
however once Addresses and Names have been standadized, those who know
their data can often outperform standard match/merge software. For
instance, with ISP data, one often has very good phone numbers and CC
numbers, so keys based on these numbers should be given higher weights
then address data.
.
I believe all packages above are CASS and PAVE certified.
Roger DeAngelis
49 Spackenkill Rd
Poughkeepsie NY 12603
http://members.aol.com/xlr82sas/utl.html
John.W@MEDISCIENCE.CO.UK (John Whittington) wrote in message news:<5.1.0.14.2.20020313011326.0269dbf0@pop3.powernet.co.uk>...
> At 18:07 12/03/02 -0500, Larry Bertolini wrote (in part):
>
> >I'm just guessing, but I think that the commercial
> >tools, that do address "cleansing", use some
> >sophisticated "inference", and probably ...
>
> One would certainly hope so - and also that there is some which is better
> than that which often results in my 'Dr.' title being changed to 'Drive' in
> some mail I receive!
>
> Kind Regards
>
>
> John
>
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