Overview of the Product

Nova's nCode Programmers Toolkit has been developed to meet the demands of today's marketplace for data quality management of postal addresses. This powerful and flexible tool allows your organization to easily acquire the power to efficiently reformat, test, correct and certify address data as accurate to Canada Post standards in information systems running on virtually any platform.

Who Needs the nCode Programmers Toolkit?

Business to Consumer:
Anyone who wants to build an efficient, powerful address management capability to ensure that their communications reach their customers without fail and who wish to significantly reduce their costs of both systems development and address management.

Business to Business:
Anyone who is looking for a more effective and efficient way of doing EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) with a high degree of address data accuracy.


Features:

• SERP certified by Canada Post
  
  
• Address searching and postal code lookup: nCode has powerful and flexible searching features that let you search for valid Canadian postal addresses at any level, using any partial information.
  
  
• Address verification: nCode uses Canada Post's standard address database to verify your addresses to a very high degree of accuracy.
  
  
• Fully automated or manual address correction: You can configure nCode to correct addresses automatically, thereby eliminating manual intervention. If you prefer, nCode will tell you what is wrong with an address and even give you suggestions for making the address valid.
  
  
• Automatic reformatting of address to your or Canada Post's standards: Define as many address formats as your business requires. nCode can transform your addresses into any format quickly and easily.
  
  
• Bilingual address support: nCode completely supports accents and translation of address key words.
  
  
• Monthly updates of master Postal Code database: With nCode, you always have the very latest address information.
  
  
  

Technical Highlights:

• Coded in C++ to assure maximum performance, nCode provides over 240 API's (Application Program Interfaces) to give you all the power and flexibility you need to do any job. Despite all this power, nCode is easy to use. Most applications require fewer than two dozen of nCode's API's.
  
  
• A single code base supports all platforms including Windows, MVS, AS/400, Sun Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and Linux
  
  
• Canada Post's 180MB address file is compressed and indexed into the tiny 10MB nCode address database, which facilitates memory-resident processing for highest throughput with no physical file I/O.
  
  
• Full technical documentation and extensive working sample code is provided
  
  
  

Why nCode Programmers Toolkit is Your Choice:

• Simple to use and fast, easy implementation
  
  
• Cost effective - aggressively priced for the value it provides
  
  
• Proven robust in many high profile companies over many years
  
  
• Excellence of customer support to which our customers will readily testify
  
  
• Focused expertise of our team - address quality is our only business
  
  
• Integrates easily into your existing or chosen software applications on any platform
  
  
• Reduced investment in time and dollars in the development of systems components to reformat and correct postal addresses
  
  
• Reduced investments in effort required to respond to changes in postal addresses by Canada Post Corporation or municipal and provincial governments
  
  
• Minimizes the technical knowledge and the learning curve required to implement postal address management across multiple platforms