Question: What do the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Hofbräuhaus in Munich, and the Louvre in Paris all have in common?
Answer: All of their addresses can be verified using StrikeIron's Global Address Verification Web Service.
Incorrect international addresses can be very expensive in business, especially in terms of missed communications, hard missed shipment and re-routing costs, and a whole range of customer service issues. Now, these challenges can be ancient world history.
In modern global commerce, the easy ability to verify the correctness of an address all over the world in an automated way is a no-brainer, especially as inexpensive as it is. Easy integration with StrikeIron's Global Address Verification Web Service enables this to be achieved with very little effort and cost.
The capability is available both as a real-time Web service to verify address information as it comes across a Web form for example, but also interactively to give someone a choice (perhaps in a call center) to choose the nearest or correct address from a proximity list.
The SOAP and REST-based Web services also include advanced features such as country of origin, preferred localization (London versus Londres), and covers 240 countries around the world. They are also available for easy integration into Salesforce.com.
Best of all, this is really the same as outsourcing this capability via an easy to integrate XML-based Web service. It can fit a wide variety of Web applications, business processes, and even mobile devices. No data updates, no maintenance, no hardware, no hassle.
Maybe someday, applications with bad international addresses will be in a museum somewhere.
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