| AFD Names & Numbers® is a comprehensive reference to UK names, addresses and telephone numbers. It provides fast, accurate, entry and management of address data - and easy extracts of data sets from over 1.5 million organisations and more than 46.5 million people and includes full Royal Mail PAF® data.
AFD Names & Numbers is also powerful tool for use in the back-end verification of customer credentials for Internet web sites, e-commerce businesses and voice-activated automatic systems. Names & Numbers now includes advanced Robot technology so you can type a postcode into almost any program... and the address appears.
OVERVIEW
LOOKUP PEOPLE, PHONE NUMBERS & POSTCODES AFD Names & Numbers® is a comprehensive reference
to UK names, addresses and telephone numbers. It provides fast, accurate, entry and management of address data - and easy extracts of data sets from over 1.5 million organisations and more than 46.5 million people and includes full Royal Mail PAF® data.
AFD Names & Numbers is also powerful tool for use in the back-end verification of customer credentials for Internet web sites, e-commerce businesses and voice-activated automatic systems. Names & Numbers Internet is
available for special license for these purposes. (Please note: Names & Numbers and the data it contains is not available for license for public display on the Internet for reasons of privacy and the personal safety of individuals listed in the product.
BUSINESS BENEFITS? - Save well over 80% of keystrokes entering address & contact details.
- Harness Caller Line Identity (CLI) to use phone numbers to find and enter addresses.
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Search to find contact and address details from tiny fragments of information.
- Reduce fraud by verifying people and places against UK voters lists.
- Build professional, consistent and reliable databases.
- Marketing resource – select lists, then print labels or export ready for mail merge or database use.
- New area telephone codes Northern Ireland, Cardiff, London etc are automatically converted in searches and lookups.
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A new "PhoneChange2000" API feature is provided for implementation of this feature in developer applications.
What kind of organisations benefit from Names & Numbers?
Users of Names & Numbers include mail order, call centres, insurance, retail, tracing and membership organisations. Names & Numbers uses official electoral roll with extended public and commercial databases to deliver the names of most occupants - and telephone numbers of
many - along with the activities of most organisations.
How do I search with Names & Numbers?
There is a wide variety of look-ups and sophisticated searches: ADDRESS LOOKUP
Lookup of names & addresses is simple:
By name | John Dolman | By name & address | John Dolman, Bury
Superdrug, Bury
John,BL8 1JA
13 Birks Drive | By phone number | 0161 56556556 |
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ADVANCED SEARCHING
To meet more demanding enquiries, Names & Numbers boasts powerful and sophisticated search facilities: - Phonetic --> sounds like ‘Smythe’ but not spelled ‘Smith’
- Spelled --> Like finds spelling mistakes even where they alter the sound of a word
- Family --> find John and Janet Smith at the same address
- Business --> Type --> find ‘Solicitors’ or ‘Insurance Brokers’
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Radius --> find Solicitors within a 3 mile radius of E14 5JD
- Wild Cards --> starts with, ends with, contains
FEATURES - NEW Invisible Robot delivers addresses wherever postcodes are typed.
- Easy insert into most databases, contact managers and word processors.
- Drag and drop individual address fields, a whole address or even the Barcode into programs like Microsoft Word, ready for printing.
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Seamless integration into suitable Windows programs – free programming examples provided.
- Easy selection for export into mail merge or for import into databases - or simply print labels straight away using powerful built-in label printing (subject to data extract fees).
COMPREHENSIVE DATA - 46.6 million people - First Name, Initial & Surname, Gender, Residency.
- 18 million with residential phone numbers.
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1.5 million businesses.
- 1.4 million businesses with phone numbers.
- Standard Industry Classification (SIC).
- Business descriptions - like ‘Solicitors’.
- Business Size - indicated by bands of employee numbers.
- Full Royal Mail PAF® data - 26.8 million UK addresses.
- Ordnance Survey Grid References.- and distances.
- Bartholomew Maps
- Mailsort codes.
- NHS codes and names of areas and regions.
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Local Authority Ward codes & names.
- Local or Unitary Authority name.
- Parliamentary Constituency.
- TV Region (not TV Companies).
OPTIONS
Cameo Geodemographic Data is available as a data option.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Names & Numbers requires approx 820 Mb fixed disk space for a full installation, or it can be run from the CD Rom using 590 MB of installed space.
It will run on Windows 95,98,ME,NT or Windows 2000. Minimum 32Mb RAM recommended.
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