Name & Address Matching and Enrichment
Leverage our 10 years of experience with hundreds of millions of South African name and address records.
Our unique business rules include:
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Over 800 000 South African first names with gender allocations
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Full list of postal suburbs and towns with thousands of spelling variations and errors automatically corrected
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Data enrichment with post code for valid postal addresses (box and street address types)
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Numerous business terms and phrases
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Standardisation of many terms to English variation
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Elementisation of unstructured name and address e..g House Number, Street Name, Street Type
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Geocodes (longitude and latitude points) for over 9 million South African street addresses and hundreds of other countries
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Handles both English and Afrikaans address types of the shelf
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Comprehensive householding and individual match rules
Example Data
| Key | Original Name | Address Line 1 | Address Line 2 |
| 1 | ABC Apteek (Edms) Bpk | ATKV Gebou 15delaan 42 Magaliesig | |
| 2 | ABC Pharmacy (pty) Ltd | 42 Fifteenth Avenue | Magalieview |
After processing we generate new, improved data
| Key | Business Name | Complex | House # | Street Name | Suburb | Post Code | Matched Key |
| 1 | ABC Pharmacy | ATKV Building | 42 | 15th | Magalies View | 2067 | 00000001 |
| 2 | ABC Pharmacy | 42 | 15th | Magalies View | 2067 | 00000001 |
This blue print will save years of development effort for any name and address projects.