Released on: June 20, 2008, 7:21 am

Press Release Author: Apatar

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: New Apatar data quality connector for CDYNE Death Index Web
service checks customer information against U.S. Social Security Administration
database and prevents using deceased person's details.

Press Release Body: Apatar, Inc., the leading provider of open source software tools
for the data integration market, today announced the CDYNE Death Index connector for
the Apatar Open Source Data Integration toolset. The new connector verifies the
Social Security number against the U.S. Social Security Death Index database and
returns whether the customer is departed, eliminating the possibility to use a
deceased person\'s identification or deliver goods to individuals who do not exist.
Using the CDYNE Death Index Web service, Apatar checks the legitimacy of social
security numbers extracted from corporate applications (such as Salesforce.com and
SugarCRM) or databases (MySQL, Microsoft Access, Oracle, etc.) and allows for this
data to be filtered or cleansed.

Have you just issued credit to a dead man?

According to CIFAS, impersonation of the dead is the fastest growing identity theft
crime. Whether your business offers credit or relies on Social Security numbers to
verify incoming payments, Apatar's data quality service allows you to implement the
credit fraud control. The service instantly checks the Social Security number and
notifies you if the customer is deceased, providing information about the date of
death, date of birth, and zip code of last known residence. All of the information
cross-references with CDYNE's Death Index master file, which is updated directly
from the U.S. Social Security Administration once a month.

By having up-to-date customer data, companies can also prevent embarrassing sales
and marketing calls or mailings to the recently departed. The Direct Marketing
Association estimates 22 million items of direct mail are sent to dead people each
year. Verifying and cleansing customer information, Apatar's CDYNE Death Index
connector can prevent companies from losing thousands of dollars to credit fraud or
delivering goods and services to individuals who no longer exist.

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"CDYNE's Death Index Web service is widely used by credit and collections companies,
attorneys, and other service providers to scrub and flag accounts, which have
recently deceased," said William Chenoweth, VP Director of Marketing CDYNE
Corporation. "With this Web service, you can implement fast and easy fraud control
or make sure you file your estate claims promptly and accurately. This simple, but
effective, solution has saved companies millions of dollars in fraudulent
transactions."

CDYNE Death Index features and benefits:

- Verifies customer Social Security data
- Prevents credit card fraud and deceased identity usage
- Updated directly from the U.S. Social Security Death Index Database once a month
- Provides information about date of death, date of birth, and zip code of last
known residence
- Enables batch processing

Apatar Open Source Data Integration features and benefits:

- No coding! Visual job designer and mapping enable non-developers to design and
perform transformations, shortening implementation time
- Distributed under an open source model, reducing integration and maintenance costs
- Connectivity to Salesforce.com, SugarCRM, MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL, Microsoft Excel,
Microsoft Access, GoldMine, DB2, Sybase, PostgreSQL, dBase, EnterpriseDB, vTiger,
InnoDB, Compiere ERP, .CSV, XML, RSS, ATOM, HTTP queries, POP3, LDAP, FTP, WebDav,
Autodesk Buzzsaw, any JDBC data sources, Amazon S3, Flickr, StrikeIron and CDYNE Web
services, and more
- Job scheduler and synchronization automate the data integration process.
- Improves data quality with a variety of verification, filtration, and validation
features
- Users have the ability to create, share, and re-use pre-built data transformations
and publish data integration output as a custom RSS feed to ApatarForge, the online
Apatar community.
- Platform-independent, runs from Windows and Linux

Pre-built integration mapping:

http://www.apatarforge.org/datamaps/data-quality/cdyne-death-index-sample.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 4000 organizations and individuals worldwide. For more on Apatar,
please visit http://www.apatar.com and http://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.


Web Site: http://www.apatar.com

Contact Details: Apatar, Inc. 195 Meadow St., FL 2 Chicopee MA 01013 USA
phone - (213) 784 4915 fax - (703) 564 5628