Best Employment Address Telephone Solution (BEATS)
Experian BEATS is designed to provide high confidence contact information for individuals through two key services: BTS (Best Telephone Solution) and BAS (Best Address Solution). With over several years of development, these solutions leverage credit bureau data and additional external sources, identify likely current address and telephone details are identified for each person.
Businesses need up-to-date contact data for effective communication and decision-making.
Accurate Consumer Contact Information
Provides validated and ranked contact indicators, removing outdated or irrelevant information, and applies rules intended to exclude numbers not reliably linked to the subject.
Improved Data Quality
Refines and validates address and employment information, ensuring high-quality data through standardisation and verification.
Enhanced Data Compliance
Designed to support POPIA-aligned data handling and privacy controls.
Better Decision-Making
Access to accurate contact and employment data allows businesses to improve engagement and communication strategies.
Find out about Experian BEATS
Best Telephone Solution (BTS)
- Utilizes multiple data sources to validate and select an individual's most accurate telephone number.
- Removes spousal contact numbers to ensure only direct contact information is returned.
- Integrates a Contact Verification Service, precisely associating numbers and individuals, improving contact data quality.
Best Address Solution (BAS)
- Combines data from the Experian credit bureau, industry sources, and client-provided addresses for a comprehensive address solution.
- Uses the National Address Directory (NAD) and open-source platforms like OpenStreetMap to enhance address accuracy with latitude and longitude validation.
- Standardizes and ranks address data, providing physical and postal addresses with quality scores.
Three primary datasets include:
- BAS Physical: Best-selected physical address.
- BAS Postal: Best-selected postal address.
- BAS All: All cleaned addresses with ranking and quality scores.
Best Employment Solution (BES)
- Utilizes internal data sources for employment information, followed by a thorough cleaning and validation process.
- Standardizes occupation titles and validates employment history, ensuring employer name and date accuracy.
- Tracks employment continuity, calculating the duration with each employer and providing insights into job history over the past 2 and 5 years.
Key Features
- Spousal Number Removal: Ensures the direct contact information is returned.
- Address and Employment Validation: Provides comprehensive address and employment data validation processes.
- Data Cleaning: Refines data by correcting syntax and standardising terminology.
- Enhanced Location Data: Uses latitude and longitude to validate physical addresses.
- Customizable Data Integration: Capable of integrating with client systems for seamless data flow.