Billing & OSS World, Washington, D.C. — Pitney Bowes Business Insight has released Spectrum Technology Platform v6.4, the latest version of its multi-domain data management solution.
With expanded location data domain knowledge, support for transliteration and 64-bit processing power, PBBI says the Spectrum Technology Platform helps provide actionable customer intelligence required for a competitive advantage. By improving the quality, integration, accessibility and value of enterprise information, the Spectrum Technology Platform helps telecommunications companies create data that is “fit for use” so they can better understand, service and grow customer relationships, according to the company.
The Pitney Bowes Spectrum Technology Platform v6.4 arms providers with a comprehensive, modular platform for enterprise-wide data quality, data integration and location intelligence. PBBI says the latest version helps providers to better organize and consolidate valuable customer data within a single, comprehensive record, allowing for more accurate, targeted communications. New features better support international address quality, help enterprises perform complex spatial queries to deliver location-based insight, and provide a foundation for improving financial data quality and predictive modeling.
“Organizations need accurate and trustworthy data to make intelligent business decisions. In addition to a proper data quality and data integration process that ensures that customer and product data is current, readily accessible location-based data supports decision-making processes across all enterprise applications,” said Andreas Bitterer, vice president, Gartner Research.
The Pitney Bowes Spectrum Technology Platform includes five core solutions, including Enterprise Data Quality, Enterprise Data Governance, Enterprise Data Integration, Enterprise Location Intelligence and Enterprise Business Services. PBBI says these modular solutions enable telecommunications providers to optimize the performance of existing enterprise applications, improve business processes, drive more intelligent decisions and build stronger customer relationships.
New features and benefits in the Pitney Bowes Spectrum Technology Platform v.6.4 include:
- Support for Transliteration — Universal Addressing Module (UAM) now provides support for character set mapping and transliteration, which converts the characters and words of one language into another. For example, customers who mail or ship globally, or want to utilize address information in applications that only support the Latin alphabet, will have the capability to convert Chinese or Greek characters into Latin characters.
- Enhanced Location Intelligence Functionality — The Location Intelligence Module now includes the ability to read directly from spatial sources such as MapInfo TAB, ESRI SHP and Oracle Spatial formats. A new “Spatial Calculator” function operates on geometrical data types to perform complex validation, transformation and calculations to deliver location insight. Additionally, a new “Find Nearest” function incorporates fastest and shortest time calculations to identify points-of-interest with greater precision and accuracy. The Enterprise Routing Module has also been enhanced to provide travel cost matrix calculations, which can be used to determine geographic or weather-related risk for more strategic network management and expansion.
- 64-bit Architecture — The Spectrum Technology Platform now supports 64-bit processing, which enables faster processing with greater memory utilization.
- Ability to Perform Mathematical Functions — The new Expression Calculator and Statistical Calculator enable the Spectrum Technology Platform to work with numeric data, introducing the foundation for both financial data quality and predictive modeling.
The Spectrum Technology Platform v.6.4 is now available.
