Experian QAS Launches SaaS Offering For Contact Data Mgmt

Experian QAS has launched QAS Pro On Demand, signalling its entry into the Software as a Service (SaaS) market. The new service combines QAS’ contact data management technology with Experian’s secure hosting capabilities.

QAS’ contact data management innovation provides companies with an intuitive 24/7 service that enables UK addresses to be quickly and securely validated via the Internet.

By entering partial address information – such as a postcode and premises number – QAS Pro On Demand instantly returns to users a complete and correctly formatted address, validated against Royal Mail’s Postcode Address File (PAF). For Website contact data management, the company’s new SaaS proposition enables organisations to greatly reduce the costs associated with incomplete and duplicate customer registrations.

The entire hardware and software platform for this address verification tool is hosted and managed by Experian, providing users with secure access to data.

Experian QAS’s new SaaS platform has been designed to provide total contact data management flexibility for organisations of all sizes. Smaller companies will benefit from having data hosted and managed so that they can free up valuable internal IT resources. For larger companies, QAS Pro On Demand can easily be integrated within existing SOA strategies to allow communication across different platforms and different programming language boundaries.

Jonathan Hulford-Funnell, group operating officer, Experian QAS, said, “Software as a service is an efficient and simple way to maintain contact data. We have designed the platform to address the ’three Ss’ that customers specifically look for in an on-demand offering: scalability, stability and security. We hope that QAS Pro On Demand will help customers to optimise their contact data management strategy”.