Service Objects – Data Quality Blog
TLS and Email Security: An Overview
Many people don’t realize that when you send an email, its contents are often unencrypted – and in turn, vulnerable to being seen and intercepted by others. This may be fine if you are sending recipes or plans for the weekend to your friends, but many businesses want a more...
Marketing
A Brief Look at the Journey of an Email Message
How do emails actually get from point A to point B? Most people have no idea. They don't stop to wonder how an email message is sent and delivered when clicking the send button. If you were to ask them...
Sr. Software Engineer
GDPR: One Year Later
May 25, 2019 marks the one year anniversary of the implementation of GDPR: the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, a sweeping set of data privacy laws replacing a patchwork of...
Director of Marketing
Test Types and Why We Use Them
If you have spent any time around our DOTS Lead Validation or DOTS Lead Validation International services you may have run across the input to the service, 'TestType'. This input is arguably one of the...
Applications Support Technician
Address Validation Service vs. Address Verification Service (AVS)
Some terms sound similar but aren’t actually interchangeable – like sympathy versus empathy or good versus well. In the data quality business, two similar phrases with totally separate meanings are...
Marketing
Email Validation: To Correct or Not to Correct?
Wouldn’t it be great if there were a service where you could enter an email address, and it would be validated and automatically corrected when an error was found? The good news is that this service...
Sr. Applications Engineer
How Data Quality Tools Help Save Mother’s Day
We have many mission-critical applications for our products. But every year in May, one of the most critical ones is keeping moms happy on Mother’s Day. After all, customer satisfaction is important in...
Marketing
Credit Card Validation: Your Questions Answered
You’ve got questions? We’ve got answers! This is the first in a series of articles exploring common user questions about our products and how they can be used in business use cases, based on what...
Marketing
Using Geocoding for Target Marketing
What can a little latitude and longitude do for your marketing? A great deal, as it turns out. For starters, geotargeting – or the use of geographic coordinates to define your target market – has...
Director of Marketing
Lead Validation: The Core Components
How good are your leads? DOTS Lead Validation, Service Objects’ most popular composite service, is designed to measure lead quality – helping our clients reduce fraud, increase conversions and enhance...
Director of Engineering
