Contact Zone:Build History
Build 3.1
Released January 2013
- New Personator Component
- New personator component has been added to ContactZone.
- New MatchUp Component
- Intersecting deduper
- Re-Worked Intersecting Deduper for improved performance
- New Match Code Editor Interface
- Simplified and improved the MatchCode Editor
- Added Fuzzy Matching Algorithms
- The following algorithms were added for fuzzy matching compatibility:
- N-Gram
- Jaro
- Jaro-Winkler
- Longest Common Substring
- Needleman-Wunsch
- MD Keyboard
- Smith-Waterman-Gotoh
- Dice’s Coefficient
- Jaccard Similarity
- Overlap Coefficient
- Double Metaphone
- Added new Match Code Types
- The following match code types were added to MatchUp:
- Proximity
- Numeric
- Date
- Presort
- Presort data files has new rates now.
- Windows 8 compatibility
- ContactZone is now available and supported in Windows 8.
Build 3.0
Released October 2012
- New IpLocator Component
- IPLocator component will help you identify a IP address’s geographical location, i.e. country, region, city, latitude, longitude, ZIP code.
- New Global Component
- Global Component for validating and correcting international addresses is now released for ContactZone.
- Contact Verify
- Name object will run locally only
- Company name standardization is now available.
- New License management and component configuration
- All licensing is handled by one license string, from the Melissa Data License Settings window. Only one license string is used for your Contact Zone components. If you wish to use a trial product in conjunction with your active subscription, enter a trial license under the Trial License section. Component Configuration
- The functionality previously found in the advanced configuration dialog in each component has been moved to the Contact Zone Tools > Melissa Data Settings > Components menu. Each component has menu item here.
- The “Test” button functionality previously found on the advanced configuration dialog has been replaced with a “Show Details” button in each component configuration dialog. The “Show Details” button will perform a test of the configuration of the component and display the results.