Today CDYNE launched PAV-I, an international postal address verification API which validates addresses for over 240 countries. Businesses with an international market presence can ensure data quality for their customer base without any prior knowledge of international address formats or foreign characters. One of the great features of PAV-I is that it takes the guesswork out of the many address formats that exist worldwide. We are excited about this new offering because it complements CDYNE’s existing PAV API, which is CASS Certified™ for US postal addresses, and now verifies Canadian addresses at no additional cost.

TRANSLITERATE ADDRESSES FROM ONE ALPHABET TO ANOTHER

PAV-I supports 9 writing systems and will transliterate address data for Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese Kanji, Chinese, Arabic, Thai, and Korean Hangul. For example, if you input a Japanese address in English characters, you have the option to request the validated address in either English or Japanese Kanji.

We will use the address 3-24-20, YOKODAI ISOGO-KU YOKOHAMA, 2350045, JAPAN to highlight the transliteration capabilities of PAV-I. The default setting for transliteration is false. When set to true, the verified address will output to the native language if it is supported. The only exception to this is the country output field, which will return in English.

Address entered with native output set to true:

Input Address: 3-24-20 YOKODAI ISOGO-KU YOKOHAMA 2350045 JAPAN

Output Results: A RESCODE of “1″ and OUTPUTSTATUS of “C” combined means the address was successfully matched or parsed and has been corrected to match the reference data. The corrected and transliterated address is output both in the ADDR field as well as the individual address fields. As mentioned earlier, the COUNTRY output field will return in English and does not transliterate.

 

The last output field MATCHLVL returned a “2,” which signifies verification down to the street level. These output returns are meaningful because they provide a record of any corrections that were made to your addresses along with the level to which the addresses were verified. The following MATCHLVL returns are available:

• 0 – No Match
• 1 – Town, City, Locality, Municipality, Suburb
• 2 – Street
• 3 – Premise (Building)
• 4 – Organisation (Varies by country, Business or Administrative Entity)

Address entered with native output set to false:

Input Address: 3-24-20 YOKODAI ISOGO-KU YOKOHAMA 2350045 JAPAN

Output Results: A RESCODE of “1″ and OUTPUTSTATUS of “C” combined means the address was successfully matched or parsed and has been corrected to match the reference data.

INNOVATIVE PARSING ABILITY

PAV-I has the ability to parse addresses entered in one or many fields. Using multiple address fields for input is useful when you are familiar with international addresses and the specific elements of the input address. If uncertain of the specific address elements, inputting information in the wrong fields may complicate or confuse matching.

To illustrate this, let’s use the address Rose House, 51-59 Circular Road, Isle of Man, IM1 1AZ, United Kingdom to show how this address can be entered using fielded or unfielded input.

Address entered with unfielded input:

Input Address: Rose House, 51-59 Circular Road, Isle of Man, IM1 1AZ, United Kingdom

Output Results: A RESCODE of “1″ and OUTPUTSTATUS of “V” combined means the address was successfully matched or parsed and has been verified mailable with no change.

Address entered with fielded input:

Input Address: Rose House, 51-59 Circular Road, IM1 1AZ, United Kingdom

Output Results: In this case, “Isle of Man” was not included in the input data. As a result, RESCODE  “1″ and OUTPUTSTATUS “C” was returned (the address was successfully matched or parsed and has been corrected to match the reference data).

PAV-I VERIFICATION CODES

Addresses are verified with a RESCODE and an OUTPUTSTATUS. The RESCODE returns data based on whether the address was successfully matched or not. The OUTPUTSTATUS provides extra details regarding the verification or correction that occurred when verifying the address. 

For more information about CDYNE PAV-I API, please contact an account representative at 1-800-984-3710, inquire by email, or initiate a chat for more details.

Or sign up for a free trial license key to test CDYNE PAV-I API.

Developers find CDYNE PAV-I API integration details on the CDYNE developer’s wiki

Many customers activate more than one license key per Web Service through CDYNE’s free Reseller Web Service. This service allows you to add, enable, disable, and get transaction counts via a Web Service. You only pay one monthly fee regardless of the number of license keys generated.

At the time of invoicing, Reseller Web Service customers have three ways to view their account usage and totals. The first view is the main invoice which includes the Web Service monthly fee as well as the total monthly transaction fee per Web Service. Here is an example invoice showing a total of 96 SMS transactions:

So how do you find the transaction and price breakdown of each reseller license key? At the bottom of the invoice there is a statement, “For a detailed report:” with a link that follows. Clicking on this link will open up a separate page with two additional reports:  the CDYNE Corporation billing detail report, and a Breakdown of Summary Items report.

The CDYNE Corporation billing detail report shows a list of each license key under the parent account. It also shows the transactions per key, as well as the total transaction charge per key. Below is an example that shows five license keys for SMS Notify! The first license key ending in “3abc4d” had 25 transactions for a total of 25 cents.

The Breakdown of Summary Items report shows a daily summary of transactions processed per license key. Continuing with the license key ending in “3abc4d,” the report below shows the daily count – starting with 3 transactions on 10/31, and ending with 2 transactions on 11/26.

For more account information, please contact an account representative at 1-800-984-3710, inquire by email, or initiate a chat for more details.

CDYNE Announces New Lower SMS API Pricing

Effective immediately, CDYNE is cutting the price of all text messaging transactions to 1 cent. This includes all text messages sent to CDYNE’s worldwide network.

SMS Notify! 2.0 is a 2-way text messaging Web Service that sends and receives text messages through secure SMS gateways. Commonly used messaging features include automated appointment or payment reminders, product delivery status notifications, and subscriber event messaging.

Automated Keyword Management

In addition to cutting the price of SMS transactions, CDYNE has added automated keyword management features into SMS Notify! 2.0. SMS message recipients who type HELP, STOP, END, CANCEL, UNSUBSCRIBE, and QUIT keywords will now receive an automated acknowledgement.

When a CDYNE SMS Notify! 2.0 recipient types “HELP” CDYNE will automatically send back a default string with company name, contact information and STOP instructions to end text messages. This allows the recipient to know who is contacting them, and provides them with information on how they can contact the sender. SMS Notify! 2.0 users have the option to customize the HELP return string.

CDYNE SMS Notify! 2.0 automatically manages the STOP, END, CANCEL, UNSUBSCRIBE, and QUIT keywords. When an SMS recipient sends any of these keywords, CDYNE will send an automated acknowledgement. This will block the recipient’s number from receiving messages from our system in an effort to protect them from unwanted or unsolicited messages.

Free SMS API Test Keys

Sign up today to test CDYNE SMS Notify! 2.0 for free.

For more information about CDYNE SMS APIs, please call 1-800-984-3710, inquire or initiate a chat.

CDYNE has upgraded its existing text-to-speech (TTS) voices, as well as added three new voices to the text-to-speech engine. With the addition of TTS voices Miguel, Jean-Pierre, and Matthias, your business can add scalable, multilingual, and customizable voice calls to your application. All voices have an 8kHz sampling rate. This is best suited to telephony applications because it eliminates the overhead that is incurred when using voices of a higher sampling rate.

New voices details:

• Miguel (Americas Spanish), Male, Age 30 –  sample
• Jean-Pierre (Canadian French) , Male, Age 30 - sample
• Matthias (German) , Male, Age 30 – sample

All voices may be found here.

CDYNE’s text-to-speech engine converts raw text to written-out words, and then assigns phonetic transcriptions to those words. Text-to-speech can also be combined with recorded .wav files to create relevant call scripts according to your phone messaging web service needs. Call 704-323-7777 to listen to a sample recorded file and text-to-speech example.

Request a trial key to test Phone Notify! API for free by calling 1-800-984-3710, inquire or initiate a chat.

CDYNE SMS Notify! API is a versatile Web Service that allows businesses to send 2-way text messages worldwide through an SMS gateway using shared and/or dedicated long numbers. A long number (i.e. 757-544-9510) is a 10-digit phone number, and is an alternative method to short codes for sending outbound and receiving inbound SMS text messages. Customers using CDYNE SMS Notify! API can connect to a bank of shared long numbers, order dedicated long numbers (DIDs), or use a combination of both to support their business needs. Here is a quick overview of each option:

Shared Long Numbers

By using the SimpleSMS or AdvancedSMS request, users can pass their license key, phone number, and text message to CDYNE SMS Notify! API which will send the message(s) through a bank of randomly generated long numbers.  Text messages sent out this way will come from different phone numbers.

Dedicated Long Numbers

A significant feature of SMS Notify! API is the option for customers to purchase exclusively assigned long numbers, or DIDs. They allow inbound messaging for companies requiring Mobile Originated (MO) messages from customers or subscribers.

Customers may request a randomly generated DID, or specify the area code of the phone number.  Customers may purchase a single DID to be assigned to the license key or multiple DIDs to be assigned to a single license key.  Once the DID is issued, CDYNE assigns it to the customer’s license key which may be used to send text messages from the dedicated number(s). 

Combining Shared and Dedicated Long Numbers

In some cases, businesses may need to use a combination of both methods to send and receive text messages. To do this, users can use two separate SMS Notify! API license keys. It’s simple to generate an additional SMS Notify! API license key. And the best part is that it is free. Let’s use an example to illustrate.

Customer ABC creates license key xxx11yyy-1234-1a2b-3ca4-xxxe77e91yyy and assigns the key alias “Shared.” The customer can add a secondary key and assign with the alias, “DID 4723.” Customer ABC contacts CDYNE to order a DID. CDYNE staff place the order and assign the DID to license key “DID 4723.” With those steps complete, Customer ABC can program the license key called “Shared” to send out text messages on the bank of shared long numbers, as well as program the license key “DID 4723” to send and/or receive text messages from the dedicated phone number.

Test SMS Notify! API for free by requesting a trial license key by calling 1-800-984-3710, inquire or initiate a chat.

     CDYNE has added two new methods to the Postal Address Verification API to allow users to get zip codes within a radius, as well as searching for zip codes within a county with FIPS county code data. With the GetZipCodesWithinDistance operation, CDYNE Postal Address Verification users can add a zip code radius search, or proximity search to their websites.

     The second operation is GetZipCodesForFips. Federal information processing standards codes (FIPS codes) are a standardized set of numeric or alphabetic codes issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to ensure uniform identification of geographic entities through all federal government agencies.

1. GetZipCodesWithinDistance

Add zip code radius search, or proximity search to your website or software with GetZipCodesWithinDistance. You specify the miles and latitude/longitude values, and the method will return all zip codes within the radius given.

Features and Benefits

• Geo target for advertising
• Specify targets within a radius
• Program “dealer locator” or “nearby locations” based on latitude and longitude coordinates

Required Fields

• Latitude
• Longitude
• Radius (0 – 50)
• License key (Click here to get a trial license key)

Returned Fields 

• Return Code
  • 0 – Success
  • 1 – Invalid Input
  • 2 – Invalid License Key
  • 3 – Returned 0 Zip Codes
  • 4 – Outside Of Latitude/Longitude Range
• Zip Codes – returns an array of zip codes within range

2. GetZipCodesForFips

Search zip codes within a county with FIPS county code data.

Federal information processing standards codes (FIPS codes) are a standardized set of numeric or alphabetic codes issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to ensure uniform identification of geographic entities through all federal government agencies. The entities covered include: states and statistically equivalent entities, counties and statistically equivalent entities, named populated and related location entities (such as, places and county subdivisions), and American Indian and Alaska Native areas.

Required Fields 

• FIPS value (string)
• License key (Click here to get a trial license key)



Returned Fields

• Return Code
  • 0 – Success
  • 1 – Invalid Input
  • 2 – Invalid License Key
  • 3- Returned 0 Zip Codes
• Zip Codes – returns an array of zip codes related to FIPS

For more information:

WSDL: http://pav3.cdyne.com/PavService.svc?wsdl
Developer Resources: http://wiki.cdyne.com/wiki/index.php?title=Postal_Address_Verification
Product Web Page: http://www.cdyne.com/products/postal-address-verification.aspx

Over the last 10 years we have enjoyed very lucrative growth here at CDYNE Web Services. But the last 3 years have just exploded in terms of new clients, we contribute this explosion in growth to the general adoption of Web Services World Wide. This is the perfect time to make a service depot readily available to IT departments.

Technology is ever expanding. IT departments are charged to do more, with less resources. Fortunately, the new DataMarket provided by Microsoft will do just that.

The new DataMarket from Microsoft will enable programmers to add layers of functions to their applications with minimal lines of code. We are proud to be one of the first 35 partners Microsoft announced at their PDC event yesterday in Seattle.

New Apatar data quality connector for CDYNE Demographics Web service enriches customer database by integrating contacts with their statistical socio-economic data

May 8, 2008, Chicopee, MA – Apatar, Inc., the leading provider of open source software tools for the data integration market, today officially announced the CDYNE Demographics connector for the Apatar Open Source Data Integration toolset. The new connector delivers statistical data about customers and allows organizations to identify the ethnic and socio-economic makeup of their current customer base or purchased marketing lists. Apatar’s CDYNE Demographics connector can be used with any contacts database to determine the age, race, income, as well as type of residence, median income, median house value, or median number of vehicles, all without coding.

Ideal for data modeling and marketing

Over half of B2B marketers plan to put more resources against creating marketing databases, cleaning up customer data, and improving sales force automation and CRM integration, according to Forrester Research in its “B2B CMO Investment Priorities for 2008″ report. Whether you need to build customized marketing campaigns and determine ethnic or socio-economic information, this new data quality service from Apatar and CDYNE can be used to tweak your product offerings or advertising messages to reach your desired target market. Non-profit organizations or companies relying on donor support can use this data to match other groups or geographic areas to these traits in order to expand membership base and increase donations and support.

Featured quotes

“By appending demographic information to contact lists, you can determine when and where advertising should be placed to achieve maximum results,” said William Chenoweth, VP Director of Marketing CDYNE Corporation. “Using Apatar’s new data quality service, statistical data from CDYNE Demographics can be integrated with your customer database to determine the statistical characteristics of your contacts. It is imperative that an advertiser has the tools to get the most results for their money.”

“For a business, efficient and profitable marketing campaigns are determined by the quality of customer data,” said Renat Khasanshyn, CEO and founder of Apatar. “The CDYNE Demographics Web service can help companies better select target groups and learn more about their customers. With Apatar’s visual drag-and-drop interface, this source of useful socio-economic information can be integrated with your database or CRM system in minutes.”

CDYNE Demographics features and benefits:
- Delivers statistical data about customers and target groups
- Accelerates data modeling and marketing
- Helps non-profit organizations or any company that relies on donor support expand their membership base
- Maximizes collection efforts and determines those debtors displaying the highest probability to pay
- Enables batch processing

Apatar Open Source Data Integration features and benefits:
- Improve data quality
- Reduce integration and maintenance costs, shorten implementation time
- No coding! Visual job designer and mapping enable non-developers to design and perform transformations
- Users have the ability to create, publish, share, and re-use data transformations and output to RSS feeds by monitoring keywords and URLs for both internal and external systems
- Connectivity to SalesForce.com, SugarCRM, MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft Excel, MS SQL, Microsoft Access, GoldMine, Sybase, PostgreSQL, InstantDB, BorlandJDataStore, CSV, Qed, HSQL, Compiere ERP, XML, RSS, ATOM, FTP, POP3, LDAP, WebDav, Autodesk Buzzsaw, any JDBC data sources, Amazon S3, Flickr, and more
- Job scheduler and synchronization
- Platform-independent, runs from Windows and Linux; 100% Java-based

Related links
CDYNE Demographics connector user guide: http://apatarforge.org/wiki/display/DQS/CDYNE+Demographics

Pre-built integration mappings: http://www.apatarforge.org/datamaps/search-for-datamaps-45.html

Pricing>

Apatar Open Source is available for free download at www.apatar.com. Commercial support and maintenance subscription packages start at $1,900 per year. The CDYNE Demographics Web service is available for subscription from CDYNE.

About Apatar

Apatar is the leading provider of open source software tools for the data integration market. With powerful Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) capabilities, Apatar enables its users to easily link information between databases (such as MySQL, Microsoft SQL, Oracle), applications (Salesforce.com, SugarCRM), and the top Web 2.0 destinations (Flickr, Amazon S3). Apatar provides support, training, and consulting services for its integration solutions. Headquartered in Western Massachusetts, Apatar operates a development center in Minsk, Belarus. Apatar is currently used by 3000 organizations and individuals worldwide. For more on Apatar, please visit www.apatar.com and www.apatarforge.org. More information is available at Apatar’s Online Press Room, found at http://www.apatar.com/newsroom/.

About CDYNE

CDYNE Corporation is a leading provider of Web service solutions, which encompass a wide range of data enhancement, data verification, and communications tools. CDYNE has been developing and marketing Web services since 1999. CDYNE’s first products were developed using XML-based languages to ensure cross-platform compatibility, which is the essence of true Web services. CDYNE’s Postal Address Verification and Correction service was developed to solve the need for real-time address data cleansing without the need to have clients buy, store, program, and maintain the enormous United States Postal Service database. CDYNE Corporation’s transaction-based billing model was developed with that product to allow clients to buy only what is consumed affording them further savings. CDYNE Corporation continued to develop and release Web services products, such as Email Verification, Phone Verification, and IP2Geo during the following years. This wide range of products allowed the company to expand its client base across numerous industries such as E-Commerce, Sales and Marketing, Insurance, Retail, Utilities, Healthcare, and Banking and Finance. For more: http://www.cdyne.com.

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Media Contacts:
William Chenoweth
VP Director of Marketing
CDYNE Corporation
(757) 544-9515
wc@cdyne.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

CDYNE Phone Notify! featured in PC Magazine.

Chesapeake, Virginia, April 18, 2007 – CDYNE Corporation’s Phone Notify! product is featured in the April Issue of PC Magazine.

PC Magazine’s article “Vista Made Easy: 50 Tips and Tricks” by PC Magazine staff and Jeremy Kaplan provides quick tips and secrets about the Microsoft Vista operating system. CDYNE’s Chief Software Archtect Valentin Ivanov said, “We try to set aside time for fun projects that show off our emerging technology. The Phone Notify! gadget projects were fun for everyone on the team here.” One tip from the published PC Magazine article is shown below.

Hire a Robot Secretary
Get CDYNE Corp.’s Phone Notify! sidebar gadget from Microsoft’s gadget gallery. Then type a sentence and a phone number into its sidebar field and the tool will instantly translate your text into speech and place the call. Cool!

CDYNE Corporation offers mission critical Web Service products to high profile clients yet still maintains a dedicated ‘geek toy’ following.

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CONTACT:
William Chenoweth
CDYNE Corporation
757-544-9515
wc@cdyne.com