G-Cloud 11 services are suspended on Digital Marketplace

If you have an ongoing procurement on G-Cloud 11, you must complete it by 18 December 2020. Existing contracts with Melissa Data Ltd are still valid.
Melissa Data Ltd

Address Geocode Append

Melissa Geocode solutions convert addresses into geocodes (latitude and longitude coordinates). Providing precise rooftop geocodes for 95% of all physical addresses in the U.K., U.S. as well as 240+ countries around the world. Our unique parse and matching algorithms fix errors and complete addresses that have missing or invalid components.

Features

  • Rooftop lats/longs appended to a postal address
  • Covers UK addresses & 240+ Countries worldwide
  • Power location and local search lookups
  • REST/JSON Web service for easy integration
  • Power more effective locality intelligence
  • Aid logistics

Benefits

  • Improve logistics
  • More efficient shipping and deliveries from route planning
  • Add geocodes for mapping, logistics, support planning etc
  • Decrease shipping costs
  • Easy to install API, fits anywhere in process flow
  • Automatic service updates, without service interuption
  • Increase customer/user satisfaction and experience
  • Enhance geo-spatial marketing

Pricing

£250 a licence

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 11

Service ID

2 8 4 8 4 1 8 9 3 0 5 3 3 1 5

Contact

Melissa Data Ltd Barley Laing
Telephone: 020 7718 0070
Email: info.uk@melissa.com

Service scope

Software add-on or extension
No
Cloud deployment model
  • Public cloud
  • Private cloud
  • Hybrid cloud
Service constraints
None if licenced correctly
System requirements
  • Licenced dependent on use case
  • Can be licenced as: Public; Private or Hybrid Cloud

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Email or online ticketing
Support response times
Response times are within 3 hours during week days, and by 12 noon for the following work day after a weekend.
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
No
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
Web chat support
Web chat
Web chat support availability
9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
Web chat support accessibility standard
None or don’t know
How the web chat support is accessible
Our web chat enables customers/users to communicate with Melissa representatives in real time via a web link. Typically this is through text in a pop-up window, with audio prompts.
Web chat accessibility testing
N/A
Onsite support
Onsite support
Support levels
Standard support is 20 hrs a day Mon to Fri. This can be via email, phone or webex. This support is provided for free for the lifetime of the service licence, and includes service training and integration assistance. Standard support is based on a ticketed system and accesses all of our global support agents. SLA's - tailored support packages are available. These vary depending on requirement but can provide response times of within 3 hours 24/7, with named technical support engineers in a tiered escalation process. SLA costs are based on the individual requirements for uptime and support levels.
Support available to third parties
Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started
Full service start up guidance is available through our online wiki: technical documentation; sample code; service URLs; FAQs etc. Onsite, Telephone, Online webex, and Email training is also available.
Service documentation
Yes
Documentation formats
  • HTML
  • PDF
End-of-contract data extraction
This is clarified at the beginning of individual contracts, and is covered in our service Licence and T&C's, Melissa Data conform to the relevant regulations and procedures.
End-of-contract process
Contracts & T/C's detail the period for which a service is licenced and how it can be used. Licencee's can renew at the end of the agreed initial licence, or stop licencing the service without penalty - as long as no agreed conditions or contractual arrangements have been breached.

Using the service

Web browser interface
Yes
Supported browsers
  • Internet Explorer 7
  • Internet Explorer 8
  • Internet Explorer 9
  • Internet Explorer 10
  • Internet Explorer 11
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari 9+
  • Opera
Application to install
No
Designed for use on mobile devices
Yes
Differences between the mobile and desktop service
Services can be delivered to any screen size resolution
Service interface
Yes
Description of service interface
Melissa web services are typically delivered as API's but can also be accessed via pre-built interfaces such as ETL tools such as SQL SSIS components, and CRM's such as SalesForce & MS Dynamics etc
Accessibility standards
None or don’t know
Description of accessibility
Users access our web services via connected devices
Accessibility testing
N/A
API
Yes
What users can and can't do using the API
Users can consume the service through an API. Full documentation, sample code, examples and technical details are provided. Users will use a Web Portal to determine transaction counts.
API documentation
Yes
API documentation formats
  • Open API (also known as Swagger)
  • HTML
  • PDF
API sandbox or test environment
Yes
Customisation available
Yes
Description of customisation
The format and integration of the service can be defined by the licence holder.

Scaling

Independence of resources
The service feature a clustered approach so incoming requests are equally distributed on many nodes ensuring consistency and failover. Service monitors have On-Demand instances ready to spin up at a moment's notice in response to load. Globally distributed DNS architecture means there aren't any single points of failure.

Analytics

Service usage metrics
Yes
Metrics types
A count of transactions and the date submitted is kept. SNMP metrics, Server metrics and network protocol metrics are also kept for a six month duration.
Reporting types
Reports on request

Resellers

Supplier type
Not a reseller

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Other security clearance
Government security clearance
None

Asset protection

Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
Yes
Data storage and processing locations
United Kingdom
User control over data storage and processing locations
Yes
Datacentre security standards
Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
Penetration testing frequency
At least every 6 months
Penetration testing approach
Another external penetration testing organisation
Protecting data at rest
  • Encryption of all physical media
  • Other
Other data at rest protection approach
Supplied data is never stored.
Data sanitisation process
Yes
Data sanitisation type
Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
Equipment disposal approach
In-house destruction process

Data importing and exporting

Data export approach
The service returns real-time JSON requests and responses that are exported to the source system by program code.
Data export formats
Other
Other data export formats
JSON
Data import formats
Other
Other data import formats
  • REST
  • JSON

Data-in-transit protection

Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
TLS (version 1.2 or above)
Data protection within supplier network
TLS (version 1.2 or above)

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability
Services will be available during each calendar quarter at least 99.9% of the time, measured inside Melissa Data’s data centers. The measurement will be in 5 minute intervals, with each 5 minute interval of downtime counting as 3.5% (5/(60 * 24)) of the downtime for the day. The system is designed for full availability during routine maintenance.
Approach to resilience
The Melissa Data cloud is running Windows 2019 servers using Network Load Balancing cluster technology in multiple geographically distributed commercial data centre locations. DNS Load balancing and web service health monitoring are enabled so unhealthy servers are removed from rotation automatically. All incoming requests are sent immediately to available servers in the cluster. Melissa Data provides monitoring and real time testing of all servers, so that any problems will be flagged and technicians notified. This design eliminates single points of failure and helps ensure high availability for critical systems.
Outage reporting
Via email alerts

Identity and authentication

User authentication needed
Yes
User authentication
2-factor authentication
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
Username and Password are required to access portals. Callers for support will need to provide an encrypted License key or have an email requesting support from an authorized person in the authorized distribution group for the requesting company.
Access restriction testing frequency
At least every 6 months
Management access authentication
2-factor authentication

Audit information for users

Access to user activity audit information
Users contact the support team to get audit information
How long user audit data is stored for
Between 6 months and 12 months
Access to supplier activity audit information
You control when users can access audit information
How long supplier audit data is stored for
Between 6 months and 12 months
How long system logs are stored for
Between 6 months and 12 months

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
No
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
Yes
Who accredited the PCI DSS certification
Beyond Security
PCI DSS accreditation date
01/01/2017
What the PCI DSS doesn’t cover
Self attestation has been carried out. However only the Penetration test portion of the DSS certification is available from Beyond Security.
Other security certifications
Yes
Any other security certifications
  • SOC 2
  • HITECH

Security governance

Named board-level person responsible for service security
Yes
Security governance certified
Yes
Security governance standards
Other
Other security governance standards
SSAE16
SOC 2
PCI DSS
HITECH
Information security policies and processes
A. It is the policy of MELISSA DATA CORP. (MDC) that information, as defined hereinafter, in all its forms--written, spoken, recorded electronically or printed--will be protected from accidental or intentional unauthorized modification, destruction or disclosure throughout its life cycle. This protection includes an appropriate level of security over the equipment and software used to process, store, and transmit that information. B. All policies and procedures must be documented and made available to individuals responsible for their implementation and compliance. All activities identified by the policies and procedures must also be documented. Policies will be periodically reviewed for appropriateness and currency at least semi annually. C. At each department and/or department level, additional policies, standards and procedures will be developed detailing the implementation of this policy and set of standards, and addressing any additional information systems functionality in such department. All departmental policies must be consistent with this policy. All systems implemented after the effective date of these policies are expected to comply with the provisions of this policy where possible. At each department level periodic reporting will be made of adherence to policy to the Information Security Officer.

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Configuration and change management approach
Web Service compatibility is maintained throughout the lifetime of the service. New versions are periodically rolled out but any deprecated elements are maintained to support existing client code. Changes are communicated well in advance and new URLs are sent out to facilitate a gradual migration to new service endpoints. All planned releases follow a security testing model that is OWASP compliant to ensure security.
Vulnerability management type
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Vulnerability management approach
Periodic training is conducted to keep all information security personnel up to date with security bulletins and vendor patches. All services are tested using the OWASP framework to ensure security guidelines are followed. Patches are rolled after testing within a few hours to a few days time depending on severity. Information security personnel are briefed by Enterprise Vendors for equipment and antivirus software, Open Threat Exchange and misc. Security professional websites.
Protective monitoring type
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Protective monitoring approach
Because Melissa Data does not store client supplied data and encrypts transmissions to and from the servers, potential compromises are greatly reduced. However even in this hardened architecture digital fingerprinting and audit techniques can be carried out and email bulletins sent out within a few minutes of an intrusion.
Incident management type
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Incident management approach
Logging and audit trails are kept at every level and are reviewed continuously by company personnel. Users can report incidents directly to the IT staff and reports on outages and or intrusions will be sent out via a special web service bulletin email when an event is detected and when the postmortem is generated and the remedies identified.

Secure development

Approach to secure software development best practice
Conforms to a recognised standard, but self-assessed

Public sector networks

Connection to public sector networks
No

Pricing

Price
£250 a licence
Discount for educational organisations
Yes
Free trial available
Yes
Description of free trial
Full access to API's for service testing. Testing is limited to a volume of transactions for throughput and/or time is limited to 3 weeks, but can be extended in certain circumstances
Link to free trial
http://bit.ly/Geo-coding

Service documents

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at info.uk@melissa.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.