1 Global Address Verification Overview Bud Walker, Admound Chou

Global Address Benefits Decrease mailing costs for shipping Standardize addresses for identity and matching purposes Use one service for your entire address database Uses MD’s CASS engine for US and Canada 2

Global Address Benefits Handles UTF8 character sets and most writing systems Standardize addresses in actual mailing format of country Adds missing components to Address 3

Global Address Benefits Output in native language or Roman Enhance segmentation by standardizing country name spellings and properly formatting postal codes No maintenance with the Web Service 100 records at a time vs. 10 with AddressDoctor 4

Web Service Communication Protocols Batch Processing SOAP HTTP POST XML JSON 5 Single Record Processing HTTP GET XML JSON Security: Secure Socket Layer (SSL)

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Technical Benefits Web Services make it easy to consume No worries about Binary compatibility WS Schemas don’t change Provision new VMs as required (Licensed) Flexible calling protocols Stable multi threaded architecture (same as commercial service) fast, robust, scalable Supported by Melissa Data engineers Unlimited Support incidents 7

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Internationalize FI Address Forms 9

10 Countries and Territories Current Count: 240+ Countries and Territories Levels of Address Data Available: 5 – Delivery Point 4 – Premise 3 – Thoroughfare 2 – Locality 1 - Country

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Input/Output Fields Input Fields Standard Address inputs Up to 8 Address lines Output Fields Verified/Corrected Address Formatted Address Parsed Address Geocoding (Lat/Long) 12

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Response 14

Results Status Changes House number, Street Name, Suffix…. Errors Unknown Street, Multiple Match, Invalid Postal Code… 15

Options Country of origin Used for the Formatted Address Output Character set Latin Native 16

UPDATE SCHEDULE Global Data Updates will be made available to Fisher on an Quarterly Schedule via download Countries required by FI will be custom packaged Library Updates will be available semi annually Web Service code will be updated if required. 17

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