DataFlux Earns CASS Certification from the United States Postal Service.Business Editors/High Tech Writers CARY, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 18, 2000 DataFlux Blue Fusion(TM) Verify software meets USPS (1) (Uninterruptible Switching Power Supply) A power supply for a computer that contains its own battery and uninterruptible power supply (UPS) circuitry. See power supply and UPS. requirements for address standardization, appending and CASS CASS Cardiology, cardiovascular surgery A randomized, open label, multicenter trial that compared the outcomes of CABG vs. medical therapy on M&M in Pts with coronary artery disease after an MI. See Angina, CABG, Silent ischemia. postage discounts DataFlux Corporation, an award-winning developer of data quality and integration software, today announced that its Blue Fusion Verify software has been CASS (Coding Accuracy Support System) certified by the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. Postal Service postal service, arrangements made by a government for the transmission of letters, packages, and periodicals, and for related services. Early courier systems for government use were organized in the Persian Empire under Cyrus, in the Roman Empire, and in medieval (USPS). The USPS offers CASS certification as a way to ensure that companies using data quality software programs can correct, match, and verify addresses to rigorous USPS standards. CASS certification provides corrected and verified addresses and augmented geographic information to add value to critical corporate databases. Companies that use CASS certified software programs are also eligible to receive significant postal discounts in bulk mailings. DataFlux's Blue Fusion Verify software is a licensable technology that enables organizations to embed data quality methodology, data redundancy Writing data to two or more locations for backup and data recovery. For example, data can be stored on two or more disks or disk and tape or disk and the Internet. See disk redundancy and data recovery. prevention, data augmentation, and advanced searching and matching capabilities into commercial applications. In addition, DataFlux is in the process of obtaining CASS certification for dfPower(TM) Studio Version 4.0 software, which is scheduled to be released in February 2001. Scott Gidley, Senior Director, Research and Development for DataFlux, commented, "CASS certification gives users of DataFlux technology another way to increase database consistency and reduce costs. Blue Fusion Verify improves the overall integrity of addresses within databases, and also enables organizations to take advantage of other address-based technologies, such as mapping, geocoding and visualization." Blue Fusion Verify was designed to provide a complete and standardized address based on the USPS standards, to append To add to the end of an existing structure. ZIP+4, delivery point bar codes and carrier routes as well as additional data, and to generate the Postal Service's PS 3553 forms for CASS mailing discounts. The technology will also correct spelling errors, invalid addresses, invalid city and state, invalid ZIP codes, and invalid firm/company names. Benefits provided by Blue Fusion Verify include: improvement of mail delivery, which reduces the costs and delays associated with incorrect addresses and undeliverable un·de·liv·er·a·ble adj. Difficult or impossible to deliver: undeliverable mail. un mail; generation of verified, standardized addresses that qualify for USPS postage discounts; and increased value of customer data, ensuring better analysis and reporting. About DataFlux Corporation Founded in 1996, DataFlux is a North Carolina-based software company that provides leading edge, award-winning technology for data cleansing See address cleansing and data hygiene. , data augmentation, data consolidation & conversion and data scrubbing. The versatile DataFlux products are designed to significantly improve the accuracy, consistency and usability of an organization's critical data, enhancing the effectiveness of data-driven applications and initiatives such as data warehousing, e-commerce systems, data mining, customer information systems, sales force automation Automating the sales activities within an organization. A comprehensive SFA package provides such functions as contact management, note and information sharing, quick proposal and presentation generation, product configurators, calendars and to-do lists. , marketing databases, customer/prospect profiling and list management. DataFlux is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of SAS Institute, the leader in decision support and data warehousing, providing integrated enterprise information-delivery solutions and e-business solutions. For more on DataFlux, visit: http://www.dataflux.com. DataFlux and dfPower are trademarks or registered trademarks of DataFlux Corporation, a SAS Institute company. All other product and company names mentioned herein are trademarks or service marks of their respective holders. |
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