UK Address Specialist Postcode Anywhere Joins Forces with Talend for Real-Time Address Cleansing

May 4, 2010 - PRLog -- UK - 4 May 2010 – Open source data solutions company Talend has signed a partnership with UK address specialists Postcode Anywhere to provide pay-as-you-go address cleansing services and free data health-checks for its suite of data manipulation software.

Talend, the leading provider of open source data management software, turns complex and time-consuming data integration and data quality tasks into simple drag-and-drop processes that take minutes.

Its data cleansing tool, Talend Data Quality, eases the task of verifying and scrubbing records including addresses, phone numbers, spellings, synonyms and abbreviations.
As part of Talend Data Quality, Postcode Anywhere’s service enables users to:

•   Rate any address record’s cleanliness and reliability for free against a 1001-point confidence rank

•   Replace unreliable records with corresponding valid UK postal addresses from Royal Mail’s Postcode Address File (PAF®)

•   Augment address data with coordinate NHS and local government data from Royal Mail’s Postzon® database

Talend’s UK Sales Director Martin James said: “Data quality involves more than just inputting correct details. It also means getting rid of pre-existing poor, corrupted, or duplicate data – which can spread quickly across a system.

“The consequences of poor address data are increasingly well-known. The latest IMRG (Interactive Media in Retail Group) research puts the cost to e-commerce of poor UK address data at £146m a year, through the cost of redirection, lost customers and replacement goods.

“By using Talend Data Quality with Postcode Anywhere’s address cleansing service, users can combine custom reformatting processes with state-of-the-art scrubbing to ensure their business isn’t caught out by dirty data.”

Postcode Anywhere’s Sales and Marketing Director Phil Rothwell said: “In line with Talend’s ethos of freeing data processes and putting them into the hands of people who need them, Postcode Anywhere’s pay-as-you-go pricing finally makes address cleansing accessible to all.

“Evaluating the quality of an address is effectively free, while up to 5,000 records can be cleansed for just £50. This is especially remarkable when you consider that Postcode Anywhere’s data is the best in the business, with daily updates direct from Royal Mail piped into its system.”

The new Postcode Anywhere service for Talend is supplied in the form of Talend components, directly usable in the market leading open source data quality solution, and which are free to download on the Talend Exchange at http://www.talendforge.org/exchange/.

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Media contact for Talend
Kirsten Grimmer – Account Manager, Spreckley Partners
grimmer@spreckley.co.uk
+44 (0)20 7388 9988

Media contact for Postcode Anywhere
Jim Williams – PR Executive, Postcode Anywhere
jim@postcodeanywhere.com
+44 (0) 1905 888 570

Press centre at: http://www.postcodeanywhere.co.uk/press-centre/

Notes to Editors:

About Talend

Talend is the recognized market leader in open source data integration. More than 1,000 paying customers around the globe, including Yahoo!, Virgin Mobile, Sony and Swiss Life, use the Talend Integration Suite of products and services to optimize the costs of data integration, ETL and data quality. With more than seven million lifetime downloads and 1.5 million core product downloads, Talend’s solutions are the most widely used and deployed data integration solutions in the world. The company has major offices in North America, Europe and Asia, and a global network of technical and services partners. For more information, please visit http://www.talend.com.    

About Postcode Anywhere

Postcode Anywhere has been providing address services for ten years and is the fastest-growing reseller of Royal Mail’s Postcode Address File (PAF). A multi-award-winning organisation, it has also appeared in successive Deloitte fast-growth European technology company lists.  Postcode Anywhere supplies software and services which improve the day-to-day operations of over 8,000 organisations worldwide. Best known as a provider of address auto-fill and verification software, the company offers a range of data-driven services, including route planning and customer profiling. For more information about Postcode Anywhere, please visit www.postcodeanywhere.com.

Recent Awards and Recognition for Postcode Anywhere

Best Small IT Supplier of the Year - UK IT Industry Awards (finalist) – 2009
One of Europe's fastest-growing IT firms - Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA 2008/9 & 2009/10
Dell Small Business Excellence Award (UK finalist) – 2009
Small-Medium Sized Business of the Year (regional finalist) - National Business Awards 2009
Orange Best Use of Technology (Midlands) - 2008 National Business Awards
Growth Business of the Year - Chamber Awards 2008
Small Business of the Year - Chamber Awards 2008
Customer Service Team of the Year (finalist) - National Customer Services Awards 2008

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Postcode Anywhere is a UK-based company best known for its market-leading “what’s your postcode” technology. Its services include route optimisation, international addressing, data cleansing, business information services and lifestyle profiling.