AddressDoctor Launches Version 5

News facts:

 -- Today AddressDoctor, the leading provider of Postal Address
    Validation Solutions, announced Version 5 of its address validation
    software.

 -- Adds support for transliteration of words, and optimization of
    database formats and data cleansing options.

 -- Accelerates performance of data processing and optimized address
    data quality.

 -- Minimizes risk and costs from wrong or incomplete address data.

Proven Enterprise Solution for Global Address Validation

AddressDoctor is used by enterprises worldwide to validate and cleanse international mailing addresses. AddressDoctor increases the accuracy of mailings resulting in time and cost savings in postal service administration -- including reduced postal charges, dispatching and wasted paper. AddressDoctor 5 is a major new release that provides additional new features including:

 -- Improved data processing speeds that allow up to 300 percent faster
    lookups and more than two million addresses per hour.

 -- Geo-coding to enable accuracy down to individual streets.
    Geo-coding is currently available in Western and Eastern Europe,
    Northern America, in addition to parts of South America and Asia.

 -- Support for international address variations to overcome the
    complex problem of address structuring. Now, for the first time,
    data records can be structured with or without false fields to take
    regional variations into account, such as states and countries.

 -- Data Interpretation through the support of abbreviations and
    synonyms.

Quotes:

"In AddressDoctor 5, we have implemented a number of optimizations to offer our customers even better data quality," says Sven Schreiber, AddressDoctor CEO. "The new version also offers significant speed improvements - saving time for our customers. The improved speed also means that data processing can run overnight, making systems fully available during business hours."

Availability of AddressDoctor 5

AddressDoctor 5 is available immediately via web services and on-premise. AddressDoctor 5 is compatible with Windows, Linux and Unix operating systems and supports multiple character sets such as Cyrillic, Japanese and Chinese.

About AddressDoctor:

AddressDoctor GmbH is the leading provider of solutions for checkup and cleansing of international postal data, with more than 10 years experience. In June 2009 the company was acquired by Informatica, the world's number one independent provider of data integration software. AddressDoctor cleanses data from 240 countries and territories, using advanced algorithms and country-specific local knowledge. More than 500 customers worldwide already use AddressDoctor to enhance their data quality, including companies such as 1&1 Internet AG, Kempinski Hotels and MRM Worldwide. AddressDoctor is headquartered in Maxdorf, Ludwigshafen, Germany.

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SOURCE: Informatica Corporation

CONTACT:  Informatica Corporation
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Ogilvy PR
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