Bulk Mail Software Product Information Spotlight

Each week a new major mailing software solution is profiled with features compared to products in the bulk mailing and data quality software industry.

Mailing Software Information Spotlight:

Satori Software: Bulk Mailer
Simply Powerful Address Management Tools
Bulk Mailer address quality tools ensure that you are using the best data for mailing and qualify those mailings for the lowest postage rates. Increased address quality delivers more mail, ensures less returned mail, offers better return on investment and improves overall satisfaction with direct mail.

Bulk Mailer offers 3 products to match the size of any business:

• Bulk Mailer Standard (up to 5000 records per mailing)



• Bulk Mailer Professional (up to 1,000,000 records per mailing



• Bulk Mailer Business (unlimited records per mailing)
  
  

Bulk Mailer products deliver best volume mailing preparation in a stand-alone application.

Benefits

• CASS Certified™ for address correction



• PAVE™ certified postal presorting



• Real-time*NCOA Link® service



• Lowest postage rates



• Prepares USPS® compliant mailings faster and more easily



• Provides USPS® documentation



• Custom high-speed printer support



• Optional advanced presorts and more
  

Features

• CASS Certified™ for address correction



• PAVE™ certified postal presorting



• Real-time* Move Update service using NCOALink® processing



• USPS® documentation



• List cleansing



• Job Builder



• Custom address printer support



• High-performance, multiuser architecture



• Integrated Microsoft SQL Server database



• Multiuser environment supports template sharing



• Unlimited number of user-defined fields



• Package mailings with reports for backup or transfer



• Archive older mailings



• Options and add-ons



• Expand the capabilities of Bulk Mailer as your business grows
  

Systems Requirements
Recommended
OS: Windows 2000, XP or Vista
Processor: Pentium 2 GHZ or higher
Memory: 2 GB RAM or more
Optimal Performance
Processor: Pentium Dual Core 2.5 GHZ or better
Memory: 3 or 4 GB RAM
Hard Disk: 10 GB free space

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Bulk Mailer ensures the mailing operation to be more productive and offers the ability to prepare USPS® compliant mailings faster and more easily. Achieve increased mail deliverability and the lowest postage rates all while avoiding the aggravation of deciphering complex postal regulations. This next generation of the Bulk Mailer series sports a sophisticated new interface and the option to upgrade to a Microsoft® SQL Server database for faster performance with the largest address data files.

LIST MANAGEMENT:
Increase Quality, Increase Results

Bulk Mailer address quality tools ensure that you are using the best data for mailing and qualify those mailings for the lowest postage rates. Increased address quality delivers more mail, offers better return on investment and improves overall satisfaction with direct mail. Bimonthly updates, sent on DVDs and available for download, provide the latest USPS address management files.

1. CASS Certified for Address Correction
   Standardize abbreviations and address formats to USPS guidelines, correct the spelling of streets and cities and verify deliverability, includes DPV®, LACSLink® and SuiteLink™ processing. Add missing postal data including nine-digit ZIP® codes, eLOT® and carrier route numbers, delivery points and more; then generate USPS Form 3553.
   



2. Real-Time Move Update Service
   Use our built-in Move Update service to process lists against the full 48-month NCOALink® data set in real-time. There’s no manual import/export and no messy data merge. The only change-of-address method that updates address lists BEFORE the mail is printed and sent, NCOALink® processing meets USPS Move Update requirements for First-Class Mail® and Standard Mail® discounts.



3. List Cleansing
   The included Duplication Search wizard offers multiple search options and field combinations for precise results. Upgrade to Merge/Purge to combine, compare and eliminate duplicates from disparate list types. Process lists against a suppression list to meet Do-Not-Mail requirements.
   

Import and Export Files

Work with a wide variety of address files without hassle.

• Supported file formats include comma or tab delimited, Fixed Length, dBase, XML and Microsoft Access and Excel



• Intelligent field mapping automatically suggests matches



• Increase productivity, save settings for similar data files in templates
  

View and Edit Records

List Views present addresses in a spreadsheet for quick review. Spot anomalies and validate the results of group criteria. Update, split or combine fields in all active records. Cut, copy and paste groups of records — even to and from Microsoft Excel.

Detail Views offer organized access to data fields in an address-card format. Easily add, validate and update individual records.

Groups

Easily limit a mailing to a subset of your list. Define criteria and sort options for a more targeted mailing.

• Any field or set of fields may be used to define a group
  



• Conditions include custom, predefined and data sampling



• Preset groups include All Corrected Records, All Move Update Records and more
  

MAILING PREPARATION
Full-featured, USPS PAVE Certified Presorting

Sort address lists for the lowest possible postal rates and generate all required USPS documentation, reports and postage statements. The Mail Sort wizard makes presorting easy for everyone from the novice to the seasoned expert.

Mail Sort Wizard Features

• First-Class Mail, Standard Mail and Periodicals presorts



• SCF, BMC, ADC and DDU entry point discounts. Management of multiple mailing permits



• All required USPS documentation: Qualification Report, Postage Statement forms 3602, 3541 and 3600, and others



• Advanced settings for minimum or maximum pieces per container, type of tray and maximum sack weight



• Generates barcoded sack and tray tags



• A convenient settings report



• Append a presort ID and other mailing data for use in other environments



• Presort add-ons include Package Services, Mixed Weights and Palletization

State-of-the-Art, Printing Control
Take full advantage of your address printer — Bulk Mailer provides built-in support for model specific features. Address printing features include barcoding, an optional endorsement line, compressed fields and an intelligent address block. It also includes support for fonts, images — for example, your logo — grids, package spacers and more.

Industry-Leading Layout Design

• Precisely set label and envelope dimensions



• Select Intelligent Mail® or POSTNET™ barcoding



• Specify when to print each element
  - Always
  - On the first or last piece within a group or container
  - According to a conditional statement



• Draw lines, rectangles and circles

Custom Drivers for High-Speed Address Printers
Our custom drivers eliminate the need to manually program your printer. Printer specific controls include DPI, belt speed, page size and more. Print directly to popular models including Astrojet, Bryce, Hasler, Neopost, RENA, Secap and others, or output a print file when needed.

Advanced Features and Capabilities

Combine Tasks for Automated Processing
Available with Bulk Mailer Professional and Business, Job Builder allows you to increase productivity by combining a series of template-based tasks into a complete mailing job.

Be more productive with Job Builder.

• Include any task defined by a template



• Set a job to pause after the completion of any task



• Edit job templates as needs change

High-Performance, Multiuser Architecture
Built for the highest-volume mailers, Bulk Mailer Business offers advanced capabilities that offer faster performance with large address files and support team-based processes.

• Integrated Microsoft SQL-based database



• Multiuser environment supports template sharing



• Unlimited number of user-defined fields



• Package mailings with reports for backup or transfer



• Archive older mailing

Advanced Presorts, Data Sets and Utilities
Expand the capabilities of Bulk Mailer as your business grows. Add-ons enable Bulk Mailer to meet the most demanding mailing requirements.

• Advanced Presorting - Package Services, Mixed Weights or Palletization



• Data Enhancement - Move Update credits, Geocode, RDI™ Interface or Monthly Updates



• Utilities - Merge/Purge, Mail.dat or Move Update server
  Upcoming comparison software for Postal Soft Desk Top Edition and Postalsoft Business Edition and Bulk Mailer are BCC Mail Manager, Mailroom Toolkit, A-Qua Mailer and Smart Addresser 5.

Visit our website @freelancetech.com to learn more about Bulk Mail Software products.

Steps to Achieving High Data Quality - Data Entry

Maintaining High Data Quality
Step 1 ... Data Quality Point of Entry

Maintaining high data quality is critical to business success. Yet unreliable, outdated, or inaccurate data costs U.S. businesses more than $600 billion annually. Data Quality Software is used to cleanse data, correct addresses, correct contact information, detect duplications, correctly field data, personalize data, merge and validate data saving both time and money.

Each week we will give you pointers on improving your data quality and offer suggestions for the software products which incorporporate these features.

Step 1:
Data Quality Point of Entry Solutions

Real-Time Data Quality Is Critical to ROI. Don’t lose leads from bad data entered on your website, or waste time and money sending mail to non-deliverable addresses. Real-time data solutions will improve the quality of your data at point of entry.

1-10-100 rule

Point of entry data management is ultimately important because of the “1-10-100 rule,” which illustrates the importance of being proactive. The rule states that it costs only $1 to verify a record, $10 to cleanse and de-dupe it after it has been entered, but $100 in potential lost productivity or revenue if nothing at all is done.

While identifying and correcting bad data is important, it is far more cost effective to manage data in real time, at the point of entry. User errors can be costly. Over 25 percent of data problems are because of entry errors by potential customers, and are a major factor in poor data quality. It costs U.S. businesses billions each year, according to The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI).

The solutions offered by FTI can help you lower the costs of sales, marketing and customer service, by cleaning your database of inaccurate or incomplete contact data—at point of entry.

Another point of poor data quality is falsified or fraudulent information. Fraud involving identity theft is costing merchants big, an estimated $3.3 billion in 2009, according to Cybersource, a risk management solutions firm.

Up-to-date, correct and consistent data, starting at Point of entry, helps ensure timely deliveries of goods, fast ROI and great customer interactions!

Real time business solutions

Data cleansing downstream from the point of entry is costly and inefficient. It can increase service lead-times and add unnecessary complexity to your information chains. Here are just a few ways FTI can help your business improve data entry data quality:

1. Point of entry error correction and verification





2. Deploy reliable deliveries of goods that will produce satisfied customers and generate more profit from repeat business





3. Match, cleanse, revise and de-dupe data according to defined rules and by cross referencing address, bank, geo-data, telephone numbers and more in batch processing or in real-time





4. Build a stronger relationship with your customer base through high quality service on the basis of reliable customer information to make each interaction more efficient





5. Maintain reliable cash flow with a minimal risk of delays in payment or non-payment through precise order and customer data
   




6. Geo-coding allows you to offer location pinpointing USPS/CASS encoding to format verified addresses to USPS standard

Data Quality Software Solutions for Point of Entry:

1. Accumail Frameworks: Validates, corrects and standardizes addresses at point of entry and in batch mode




2. Mailroom Toolkit Architect: Validate addresses at point-of-entry on website. Clean and update addresses in any database




3. Mailroom Toolkit Capture: Speed data entry in a variety of applications, such as call centers, CRM systems, accounting packages and more with MailRoom ToolKit Capture. Save time and increase accuracy — enter full addresses with the fewest possible keystrokes




4. Data Quality Suite:
   Address Object: - Ensure the integrity of your database, catch customer data-input errors, and standardize data for faster processing.
   Email Object: - Verifies, corrects, and standardizes email addresses in batch or at point of entry. Three levels of verification: Syntax, Local Database, and MXlookup.

FTI is unique because we offer a choice of data quality software and can provide on-site or online training that matches the specific requirements of your business! We will match the price of any authorized dealer to give the BEST PRICE GUARANTEE, saving your business time and money. Benefit from our experience in mailing software to find the best solution for your business. We offer the best price, best service and best certified training.

Best Price - Best Service - Best Training

For additional information contact FTI at:

888-970-9944

e-mail at fti@freelancetech.com

Mailing and Print Business Fulfillment Software

"...Fulfillment is the fastest growing segment of the printing industry."

We invite you to learn more about streamlining your Fulfillment Business with a web-based fulfillment management system. With Fulfillment software mailing and print businesses can significantly improve efficiency of fulfillment processes and automate workflow to increase both return and revenues.


Midnight Fulfillment™ is a fulfillment management system designed for businesses to quickly implement a robust web-based solution to meet fulfillment needs.

According to NAPL Printing Economic Research Center, Fulfillment Revenues have grown over the last three years for both mailers (58.1%) and printers (68.2%). Profitability is expected to increase over the next two years for mailers by 60% and for printers by 59.7%.

Midnight Fulfillment™ Key Features:

1. Web-based solution


2. Easy to build web storefronts for your clients


3. Transaction based warehouse management


4. Built-in order management workflow


5. Postage and freight tracking


6. Order entry via web storefronts, batch imports or manual entry


7. Integration with UPS Worldship™ and FedEx Shipping Manager™ applications


8. Kit assembly


9. Activity based billing system


10. Standard suite of management reports


11. Web services for integrating with third party shipments and storefronts


12. Hand-held bar code scanner with Wi-Fi connectivity


13. Smart phone Applications - Query Anything is an agile and easy-to-use application that transforms your Apple iPhone, Apple iPad, Android or BlackBerry into a flexible tool for querying your company’s database.

Midnight Fulfillment provides workflow tools and real-time insight to help you simplify management of your fulfillment operation. Designed by fulfillment industry professionals, Midnight Fulfillment provides your customers with powerful features that are easy for you to manage and afford.

With Midnight Fulfillment you can provide your customers with…

• Secure online storefronts


• Online reports


• Email event notifications


• Order status and package tracking


• Accurate, real-time inventory counts
  

While you enjoy…

• Out-of-the-box, industry standard workflow tools


• Low-cost, hosted SAAS delivery model


• Accurate, transaction-based inventory tracking


• Easy to configure storefronts


• Standard managerial reports

“After sitting through multiple demos from many different fulfillment software companies, we have finally found a fulfillment system that is very detailed and very easy to use!"
Midnight Fulfillment Customer

For more information call 888-970-9944 or visit our website @ http://freelancetech.com/Products_Virtual_Systems_Midnight_Fulfillment.html

Mailing and Data Quality Software for Colleges and Universities

Students are one of the fastest growing demographics in the USA. Children of the baby boomers are now in college and even the baby boomers themselves are starting to return to college. The number of college students ages 40 to 64 has jumped by almost 20 percent to nearly 2 million in the past decade. Universities and educational institutions rely on mail-outs to reach these students for marketing, applications, billing and alumni support. College graduates are known to be the most transient demographic on record. The U.S. Postal Service estimates that over 43 million American individuals, families and businesses move each year.

Mailing is a large expense for universities and colleges. Incorrect or undeliverable addresses mean costs go up and responses go down. In fact, postage discounts can be reduced or cancelled by the postal facility if mass mailings include a large number of incorrect addresses.

Freelance Technologies (FTI) specializes in matching colleges and universities with the cost-effective data quality and mailing software from leading mailing and data quality vendors. FTI is unique because we offer a choice of mailing and data quality software and can help you to find the most appropriate software package to match the specific requirements of your institution. FTI offers mailing and data quality software from companies such as SAP, Melissa Data, BCC Software, Satori, Datatech Smartsoft, Loquate and Lorton Data. These software products range from small to enterprise level integrated solutions to web services designed for user friendly operation and optimum ROI. Benefit from our experience in mailing and data quality software to find the best software solution. We will match the price of any authorized dealer to give the BEST PRICE GUARANTEE, saving time and money.

Here are just a few ways Freelance Technologies (FTI) can help find the right data quality solution for managing small and large volumes of data and an expanding student population. The benefits of these software products for colleges and university systems are:

• Point of data entry error correction and verification


• More precise data for better analysis of student and alumni behavior


• Stronger student and alumni relationships through high quality service using reliable data


• More effective student and alumni interaction and optimized fulfillment processes


• Deploy effective, cost-efficient marketing campaigns through goal-directed address selection and correct, complete data for mailing campaigns

Mailing and Data Quality solutions can help you lower the costs of sales, marketing and recruitment, by cleaning your database of inaccurate or incomplete contact data. Some features include:

• Change-of-address updates (NCOA)


• PAVE Presort to save on postage


• Address Correction to add missing elements and correct spelling


• Address Standardization to ensure conformance and deliverability


• Data Validation to confirm that the address exists in the appropriate database as a delivery point


• Data Fielding & Parsing allows a seamless transactions in CRM systems


• Duplicate Detection (de-duping) makes duplicate records easier to find and consolidate

Address and data correction tools can help universities and colleges save on postage, materials and lost productivity by reducing returned mail and optimizing mailings for postal discounts. From tuition statements to alumni newsletters, it’s vital to stay on top of mailing lists and make sure send-outs arrive to the intended recipient. Here are just some of the solutions FTI offers:

Mailing Software

A-Qua Mailer™
A-Qua™ FTP
Bulk Mailer Standard
Bulk Mailer Professional
Bulk Mailer Business
MailRoom Toolkit Office
MailRoom Toolkit Architect
Mail Manager 2010
Mail Manager 2010 LE
Mail Manager Full Service
Mailers+4 Standard
Mailers+4 Professional
PostalSoft Business Edition
PostalSoft DeskTop Mailer
SmartAddresser 5
Smart Addressor 5 LT

Data Quality Software (Data parsing, fielding, genderizing, match consolidation, de-duplication, data extraction, resequencing, address correction and presorting)

Accumail Frameworks
Address Object
Data Qualtiy Suite
Geo-Coder Object
Global Locator
Loqate
Match Up
MailRoom Toolkit Architect
MailRoom Toolkit Office
MailRoom Toolkit Capture
Master Delivery Series
Name Object
Personator 4
Right Fielder
StyleList

Call today for a free consultation to find out more information about data quality software. Contact FTI at 888-970-9944 or via email at fti@freelancetech.com.

Global Data Quality Sept 2011

Global Business demands higher level of efficiency with greater profit potential

Maintaining high quality data is critical to business success. Yet unreliable, outdated, or inaccurate data costs U.S. businesses more than $600 billion annually. With quality data, international organizations can know how many customers they have, detect duplicate customer data, correct addresses for most countries worldwide, correct contact information, correctly field data, personalize data, merge and validate data. All this saves both time and money. Maintaining accurate data quality also can accurately predict customers' interests and can prioritize marketing programs to more effectively cross sell or upsell products. Multinational businesses need to understand these metrics to determine the value and impact of current business process.

International business initiatives encounter a large variety of languages, names, address conventions and other culturally embedded business rules and habits. In systems unable to recognize international characters or international name and address forms, the inclusion of non-native data can cause unexpected results and undermine existing data integrity throughout the enterprise. An accurate address can mean the difference between profit earned from a successfully completed delivery or customer dissatisfaction and financial penalties accumulated due to misdirected mail and resultant postal costs.

Multi-national organizations face common obstacles as they work to consolidate disparate global data into meaningful information:

• Trade across multiple countries and borders yields different customer data quality issues with different languages and character sets.


• Decentralized business systems have a critical impact on reporting, daily operations, sales forecasting, and inventory.


• Significant record duplication hinders the creation of trusted, global enterprise views.

International Data Quality Software packages include address correction that cleanses, standardizes, parses, matches, and governs multi-national information across countries, languages, and character sets. Having high-quality data as the foundation of all your enterprise efforts delivers the benefits and competitive advantage that today’s global companies seek.

• Automatic processing of mixed country data (records) applies appropriate culture- and country-specific logic


• Country-specific business rules, corporate standards and processes consistently applied to global data


• Organizes and standardizes relationships among customers and vendors across regions


• Global data quality solution that is scalable to meet the demands of current and future data quality needs

Global Data Quality Software provides appropriate categorization of cultural differences in international data, such as name order, multiple last names, street and currency designations and formats, and preferred syntax, data translation from one code page to another, even mixed data within the same record, and can match validated and cleansed addresses to corresponding latitude and longitude coordinates.

FTI specializes in matching businesses with the cost-effective global data quality solutions. International Data Quality solutions can help you lower the costs of sales, marketing and customer service by cleaning your database of inaccurate or incomplete contact data. Here are just a few ways FTI can help your business with International Data Quality Software features:

• International address data intelligence


• Access to global address data


• De-duplication


• Merge-purge


• Geocoding


• Worldwide address management


• Address Correction to add missing elements and correct spelling


• Address Standardization to ensure conformance and deliverability


• Global Data Validation to confirm that the address exists in the appropriate database as a delivery point


• Data Fielding & Parsing allows a seamless transactions

Organizations that engage in business across international borders require an effective global data quality solution that ensures data is accurate and correct, no matter what language it’s in. FTI provides software solutions that parse, standardize and correct data for 240 countries using country-specific rules applied across language and character sets. We offer many international data quality options that can be tailored to meet your business needs:

• Loqate


• Global Locator


• Master Delivery Series


• Data Quality Suites

Call today for a free consultation to find out more information about international data quality software. Contact FTI at 888-970-9944 via email at fti@freelancetech.com.