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Unlimited Enterprise Subscription Now Available

Full, complete access now available and includes Premium Support. Take advantage of special launch pricing through October.

Posted on October 12th, 2021 by Interzoid Team

Code Example: Using HttpClient in Java to Invoke Interzoid APIs

Sample Java code demonstrates how straight-forward it is.

Posted on August 31st, 2021 by Interzoid Team

Interzoid Joins API3 Alliance as Founding Member

Interzoid's API will be accessible for use on the blockchain

Posted on August 12th, 2021 by Interzoid Team

Call APIs in batch mode from database tables in the Cloud

Interzoid Cloud Data Connect - Automating the Use of Cloud Database Tables as Input to APIs - No coding!

The free download bridges the gap between Cloud database platforms and APIs.

Posted on June 22nd, 2021 by Interzoid Team

Using Interzoid Cloud Data Connect with RapidAPI to Find Matching Company Names in Cloud Databases - No Coding

Use your RapidAPI Marketplace subscription directly within Interzoid Cloud Data Connect for automated company name matching within major Cloud database platforms.

Posted on May 12th, 2021 by Interzoid Team

Video: Validating and Enriching Email Addresses Within PostgreSQL via API

Step-by-step walkthrough shows validating and enriching email addresses directly in PostgreSQL, adding geographics and email address type indicators.

Posted on May 4th, 2021 by Interzoid Team

Video: Enriching International Telephone Numbers Within PostgreSQL via API

Step-by-step walkthrough shows enriching global telephone numbers directly in PostgreSQL, adding geographics and demographics.

Posted on April 28th, 2021 by Interzoid Team

Video: Data Engineering with PostgreSQL - Matching Inconsistent Company Name Data.

Step-by-step walkthrough shows populating a database in PostgreSQL, and then performing various matching and appending techniques to resolve the issue of inconsistent organization/company name data.

Posted on April 19th, 2021 by Interzoid Team

Generating Company Match Reports in the Snowflake Data Cloud

Video: Data Engineering with the Snowflake Data Cloud - Matching Inconsistent Company Name Data.

Step-by-step walkthrough shows populating a database on the Snowflake Data Cloud, and then performing various matching and appending techniques to resolve the issue of inconsistent organization/company name data.

Posted on April 9th, 2021 by Interzoid Team

Generating Company Match Reports in Amazon Aurora RDS

Video: Creating a Database on Amazon Aurora, then Matching Data and Appending Similarity Keys - All Automated, No Coding.

Step-by-step walkthrough shows creating a database on Amazon's Aurora Serverless Database platform, and then performing various matching and appending techniques on the created data tables in a few simple steps.

Posted on April 6th, 2021 by Interzoid Team

Generating Company Match Reports in the CockroachCloud

Launch a CockroachCloud Instance, Populate with Data, and Perform Data Quality Analysis

Identifying inconsistent, redundant, and duplicate organization/company names with a CockroachCloud instance in only four steps.

Posted on March 10th, 2021 by Interzoid Team

Generating Company Match Reports in the Snowflake Data Cloud

Identifying inconsistent, redundant, and duplicate organization/company names within Snowflake in only four steps.

Posted on January 26th, 2021 by Interzoid Team

Advanced Company Name Matching Now Available on AWS Marketplace

Sophisticated matching capabilities via API, database connectivity, and application connections.

Posted on December 1st, 2020 by Interzoid Team

Code Samples: Consuming Interzoid APIs in Go

Seven quickstart examples

Posted on October 20th, 2020 by Interzoid Team

Code Samples: Consuming Interzoid APIs in Python

Seven quickstart examples

Posted on October 13th, 2020 by Interzoid Team

Part Two: Data Virtualization, Interzoid’s Global Telephone Information API, and Denodo: Appending External Data to a Data Source via API, Step-by-Step

Part Two of a two-part series on data virtualization and APIs

Posted on October 6th, 2020 by Interzoid Team

Part One: Data Virtualization, Interzoid’s Company Data Matching API, and Denodo: Find Redundant Company Names Within a Data Source, Step-by-Step

Part One of a two-part series on data virtualization and APIs

Posted on September 22nd, 2020 by Interzoid Team

Global Speed Test for Websites and APIs

Measure performance from international locations.

Posted on August 25th, 2020 by Interzoid Team

Real-time Currency Converter: Sample API Client Mobile Application

Mobile applications are a great way to leverage data feeds via API.

Posted on August 18th, 2020 by Interzoid Team

Matching company data with multiple algorithms

Using Multiple Algorithms to Improve Organization Name Matching

Fine-tune the identification of duplicate, inconsistent organization names within or across datasets.

Posted on July 22nd, 2020 by Interzoid Team

International telephone number demographics

Identifying a City from an International Telephone Number via API

Automate collection of city, region, and country data for collected international phone numbers.

Posted on June 30th, 2020 by Interzoid Team

API to Generate Person Data for Testing

Leverage high volumes of fictional data to test performance of database applications.

Posted on June 10th, 2020 by Interzoid Team

Get Edge Computing Performance Testing for Cloudfront

Measuring Performance Gains from Cloudfront - Testing from the Edge

AWS Cloudfront is one Edge Computing solution delivering significant performance gains through global caching networks. But how does one measure results?

Posted on May 28th, 2020 by Interzoid Team

Press Release: Interzoid Launches Cloud Data All API Access, Now Available in AWS Marketplace

Enables easy access to multiple Cloud capabilities and data sources via unified billing

Posted on May 19th, 2020 by Interzoid Team

Use Latitude and Longitude in Mobile Devices to Get Current Weather Conditions

Now it's easy to add weather to mobile applications using geolocation data from a mobile device.

Posted on May 12th, 2020 by Interzoid Team

Integrate Current Weather Data via API

Weather data can add weather-based customization and personalization to a broad class of applications.

Posted on April 30th, 2020 by Interzoid Team

Interzoid All-Access API Package Integrated and Available for Subscription via the AWS Marketplace

Interzoid's collection of APIs are now integrated into the AWS Marketplace and available for use as part of solutions utilizing Amazon's Cloud infrastructure, including unified billing.

Posted on April 14th, 2020 by Interzoid Team

Matching and Merging Inconsistent Data Sources

Matching and Merging Data: Similarity Keys

Much value can be obtained from merging multiple files of data to get clearer, more comprehensive pictures of prospects, customers, and business opportunities. However, matching data across tables or merging files can be a challenge if the data in those files is inconsistently represented.

Posted on March 10th, 2020 by Interzoid Team

OpenAPI Specification 3.0.3 Released

The OpenAPI 3.0.3 specification was released late last week.

Posted on February 24th, 2020 by Interzoid Team

Global Commerce: Show Prices in Local Currencies via API - Earn Possible 30% Purchase Increase

There were approximately 4.5 billion active Internet users around the globe in January 2020. Europe had more individual users on the Web than North America, with over 750,000 million. Asia eclipsed that with nearly 2 billion online. Is your site ready?

Posted on February 19th, 2020 by Interzoid Team

Interzoid Joins the OpenAPI Initiative to Help Build Frictionless Data Future

OpenAPI welcomes Interzoid as a new OpenAPI member!

Posted on January 29th, 2020 by Interzoid Team

Examples of Individual Name Matches Likely Within Your Data

Duplicate customer data involving individuals is usually caused by spelling variations, nicknames, data inconsistency, typos, and free-form data sources, causing the same individual to make multiple appearances at different places within corporate data assets.

Posted on January 21st, 2020 by Interzoid Team

Examples of Catching Duplicate, Inconsistent Company Name Data with an API

No company has been built on a foundation of bad data assets. Here are some examples of inconsistent company data within databases and an API that can help.

Posted on January 14th, 2020 by Interzoid Team

Micromarkets: Enhance Marketing Campaigns Using Zip Code Data

Micromarkets: Enhance Marketing Campaigns Using Enriched Zip Code Data

Zip codes carve up the United States into more than 41,000 micromarkets. Using them for customer analytics and marketing segmentation can provide interesting insights, including identifying important markets, top buyer demographics, and optimizing the selection of growth markets

Posted on January 6th, 2020 by Interzoid Team

Know the Language from an International Phone Number

Determine the Likely Spoken Language of a Customer or Prospect from an International Phone Number

If you are doing any kind of international marketing or customer communication, language diversity is something to consider. Fortunately, Interzoid has an API for that.

Posted on November 19th, 2019 by Interzoid Team

Ranked: Measuring Global Performance of Top International News Sites with an API Call

Large news sites typically have global audiences, therefore, it's a good exercise to measure how Websites and specific Web pages perform from international locations. Accordingly, we thought we would test how several top global news organizations are performing with respect to page load time.

Posted on November 7th, 2019 by Interzoid Team

OpenAPI Specification 3.0 Documentation for Interzoid APIs Now Available on SwaggerHub

Interzoid now has documentation for 20+ APIs available on SmartBear's SwaggerHub platform in the OpenAPI 3.0 Specification format.

Posted on October 29th, 2019 by Interzoid Team

More Accurate Queries and Analytics: Easily Standardize Inconsistent Data via API

Data is inherently inconsistent, at least with respect to how it is stored electronically. These inconsistencies can make data very difficult to analyze. What can be done?

Posted on October 23rd, 2019 by Interzoid Team

How do you Enforce a Global Service-Level Agreement?

Service-level agreements can be quite complex. However, many involve straight-forward performance metric requirements that are agreed to by a customer and its service provider. But how do you enforce them on a global level?

Posted on October 16th, 2019 by Interzoid Team

API World 2019 Event and Conference

The annual API World event and conference is occurring this week in San Jose, California in conjunction with the Microservices World event. It runs Tuesday through Thursday, October 8th-10th. Sixty exhibitors and over 3500 attendees are expected. Interzoid will be exhibiting.

Posted on October 7th, 2019 by Interzoid Team

Understand the Relationship Between APIs and Microservices

Understanding the Relationship Between APIs and Microservices

Remote Procedures Calls (RPCs), Functions-as-a-Service, Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), APIs, and now Microservices are examples of tangential terms that have been part of our Web vernacular over the years. How do APIs and Microservices compare?

Posted on October 1st, 2019 by Interzoid Team

How to Match Individual Name Data in Real-time using an API

Name data can exist in many forms at the content level, making hard to match and analyze. This can substantially reduce the value and effectiveness of many data-oriented applications such as customer information systems, marketing systems, resource planning systems, accounting systems, and other business process-driven systems.

Posted on September 25th, 2019 by Interzoid Team

Estimate Demographics from an International Telephone Number

An international number by itself can provide a significant amount of useful information about the person or organization that the number connects to. This may be helpful as part of a marketing segmentation exercise.

Posted on September 17th, 2019 by Interzoid Team

Publish Data to the Cloud with a Comprehensive API Management System to Drive New Business

Publish Your Data as a Public API to Drive Business?

Publishing data externally as a public API (Application Programming Interface) can pave the way to innovation with your partners and customers, leading to more business opportunities and business development.

Posted on September 12th, 2019 by Interzoid Team

Customer Data Quality with APIs and Microservices are Critical to Company Databases, especially for Marketing and CRM

APIs: An Ideal Mechanism for Better Customer Data Assets at Less Cost

In the case of keeping customer data assets accurate, complete, and valuable, an API approach and all the associated benefits of API-use proves they are an ideal weapon in the solution.

Posted on August 27th, 2019 by Interzoid Team

Use CURL to Invoke APIs Quickly and Easily to Understand Value and Build Applications

Invoking APIs from the Command Line using cURL

cUrl, which stands for "client URL", is a command-line utility for sending and receiving data, making it ideal to consume APIs from the command line without writing code. Here are several examples.

Posted on August 20th, 2019 by Interzoid Team

Source Code Example: Using Twilio and Interzoid APIs Together for a Web Page (or other API) Global Monitoring and Alerting System

In this example, we will call Interzoid's Global Page Load API to measure performance from thirteen different physical locations around the globe. Then, when a certain measurement threshold is exceeded, we will use the Twilio SMS API to send an SMS alert notifying ourselves of the event.

Posted on August 7th, 2019 by Interzoid Team

Consuming APIs in Python

Python, a powerful, highly extensive language is one of the fastest growing languages in use today. Many data science and machine language applications are harnessing its capabilities. Here is an example of how to consume an API within Python.

Posted on July 30th, 2019 by Interzoid Team

API Website Geared Towards Developers, Universal Testing Clients, Microservices, a Directory of APIs, and API Provider Tools

Integrating Interzoid APIs Through RapidAPI

If you already have a RapidAPI account and want to start an integration immediately, or you would like to join millions of developers who utilize RapidAPI's rich set of API tools, Interzoid APIs are now available for use through the RapidAPI platform.

Posted on July 26th, 2019 by Interzoid Team

Consuming an API in Go

Go, also known as Golang, is a powerful, emerging language architected for distributed computing, especially for server-side scenarios in the Cloud. Here is a quick,easy code walkthrough for using Go to consume an API.

Posted on July 23rd, 2019 by Interzoid Team

Email Validation and Email Verification are Critical to Email Address List Processing

Improve Delivery and Sender Reputation with Email List Validation and Enhancement

Email is still one of the top performing tools for marketers in 2019 and beyond. Not only is it budget-friendly and quick to launch campaigns with, but its reach is staggering. It is estimated that there are more than 250-300 billion emails sent around the world every day. Four billion email accounts exist globally, 25% of which are business or otherwise work-related accounts.

Posted on July 20th, 2019 by Interzoid Team

Matching data and resolving data quality issues with inconsistent company name data API microservice provides better business intelligence and reporting

Inconsistent Company Names?

Company names can be inconsistently represented in a database, the permutations causing all kinds of reporting, searching, and matching problems. How can Interzoid's Similarity Keys via API help solve the problem?

Posted on July 17th, 2019 by Interzoid Team

Monitor Web Page, API, Microservice, and CDN Speed and Performance from Global Locations

Measure Web Page Load Speed From Points Around the Globe with an API Call

Are you comfortable that your Web site page loading performance is as good globally as it is locally? Now you can easily measure it.

Posted on July 15th, 2019 by Interzoid Team

Check out our New Cloud Data Connect Data Matching Wizard!

Identify inconsistent and duplicate data quickly and easily in data tables and files.
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Connect Directly to Cloud SQL Databases and Perform Data Quality Analysis

Achieve better, more consistent, more usable data.
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Launch Our Entire Data Quality Matching System on an AWS EC2 Instance

Deploy to the instance type of your choice in any AWS data center globally. Start analyzing data and identifying matches across many databases and file types in minutes.
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