AFD’s expert Data Teams have spent the last year improving both the quantity and quality of existing grid reference data, and how quickly new postcodes have grids added to them.
Our exciting new developments around mapping, geolocation, geocoding and nearest functionality are helping organisations speed up the process and providing the optimal route to get their customers to the right location.
Innovation is key to growth. AFD Software has grown to become the world’s leading specialist on UK addressing by understanding the pains our customers face and developing solutions to solve them.
In March, when we counted the collective data management experience in the team at AFD, it was just over 450 years!
During the pandemic, more organisations found having accurate contact data – name, address, sometimes email and phone number too - is essential.
AFD plays a key role in serving the United Kingdom in working with the Royal Mail to update the Postcode Address File (PAF) and deliver it to all users.
Millions of online lookups are handled by AFD each year; our solutions help ensure communications are accurate, deliveries go to a valid address, payment details are correct and data entry is lightning fast.
AFD Software has provided Joe Browns Ltd with address validation for the past fifteen years. Ultimately, communication and orders fail if errors are entered or information is omitted.
In early November 2019, AFD Software hosted its annual charity evening at Babbages, the events venue located at Mountain View Innovation Centre in the Isle of Man.
In July 2015, Eire's (southern Ireland's) new postcode system "Eircode" was launched - which gave every single one of the 2.2 million letterbox addresses in Ireland its own unique Eircode.
Data quality is always important, but it can be literally of life or death importance in the Health Sector. Patient care, confidentiality, performance monitoring and correct funding are all impacted by data accuracy.
We look at the challenges which face the HE sector around capturing student data, reporting on graduate outcomes and widening participation to groups less likely to matriculate.
2019 marked the 60th Anniversary of the Postcode in the UK, we look back at its introduction and the importance it plays today in our everyday lives.
A business selling houseplants was unable to locate a customer address using "free" solutions.
We caught up with the organisation to discover the importance of bank data accuracy during the signup process of new members.
We serve thousands of organisations and a network of hundreds of partners across multiple industry sectors, enabling them to have full confidence in their contact data.