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.