Additional Information

360 Data is Volt Delta’s solution for managing, cleansing, correcting, aggregating and enhancing telephone-listing information. The list of our customers using this solution has grown quickly in the last few years as the challenges of managing data - some of these are listed below - have become more acute. 

360 Data is today being used by database content providers, directory assistance system providers and directory publishers, but it can be used by anyone who wants to aggregate, improve or resell subscriber listings.

360 Data enables you to overcome the difficulties of maintaining high quality data on today's deregulated, highly diversified directory services markets. It also allows you to source new kinds of data - URL, categories, geo-coordinates and advertising - with confidence that you'll be able to format it uniformly and combine it into your existing data sets. With 360 Data you can:

• Import data from an unlimited number of feeds and in various formats
• Cleanse data to ensure that it’s 100 percent complete, up-to-date and accurate using the degree of automation you’re comfortable with
• Blend and merge data from various sources into a single database with a uniform format
• Groom and export data for a wide variety of services, including directory assistance, voice automated directory assistance, SMS mobile directory inquiries and Internet directory platforms
• Completely manage advertisements for both yellow pages print and new media publishing activities
• Enable feedback, changes and corrections from your agents, data administrators or directly from customers

• Deregulation: Directory services markets are continually being opened up to competition, which leads to the duplication of national databases and hence the challenge of merging multiple data sets. 360 Data was designed specifically for this task.
• Competition: Linked closely to deregulation, competition forces all players to be more creative in order to stand apart from the crowd. To do so means adding mobile numbers, email addresses, URLs, extensions and geographic coordinates among others. 360 Data lets you enhance your service by varying your data.
• Local search: The trend toward searches for enhanced business information is accelerating. 360 Data enables directory assistance providers to categorise business listings and add attributes to them; yellow pages publishers can use it as a complete advert management system. 
• Service flexibilty: Today's directory services combine white and yellow information across various media. As directories become more sophisticated, the tools needed to manage the data that powers them also need to evolve. 360 Data was designed to support service providers as their services evolve.
• Sheer volume:  A database of 20 million listings generally requires about 1 change per 1,000 listings, or 20,000 changes a day. One of the core functionalities of 360 Data is the powerful management and workflow tools needed to process such volumes.

As big of a challenge as data management is, there is relatively little industry-wide attention paid to it. To learn more about 360 Data, please request our literature or contact us directly.