BOSTON, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/05/09 -- Experian® QAS®, a leading provider of address verification software and services, today announced the release of QAS Pro On Demand. The new service combines QAS' proven contact data management technology with Experian's secure hosting capabilities.

QAS Pro On Demand provides companies with a scalable 24-hour service that enables U.S. and international addresses to be quickly and securely validated via the Internet. Even when critical address information is absent, such as an apartment number or a street directional, the service intuitively narrows down possible address matches and prompts the user for missing information. This ensures that a complete and correctly formatted address populates an organization's database. The company's new software as a service (SaaS) proposition enables organizations to greatly reduce the costs associated with incomplete customer records.

"By offering address verification in a SaaS model, we are enabling organizations of all sizes to maintain accurate contact data in a cost-effective platform," said Joel Curry, chief operating officer, Experian QAS. "As businesses change over time, our new infrastructure is able to adapt to shifting demands."

The entire hardware and software platform is hosted and managed by Experian, providing users with highly secure access to data. The new service is updated with the most recent postal data available, allowing organizations to free up valuable internal IT resources that would be spent managing and rolling out the product.

QAS Pro On Demand is available immediately.

About Experian QAS

Experian QAS is an address data quality software pioneer. The company's products capture, validate, cleanse, standardize and enrich customer contact information. Experian QAS provides data validation software and services to more than 10,000 customers worldwide in retail, education, health care, insurance, finance, government and other sectors. The company was established in 1990 and has offices throughout the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific. For more information, visit http://www.qas.com.

About Experian

Experian is a global leader in providing information, analytical and marketing services to organizations and consumers to help manage the risk and reward of commercial and financial decisions.

Combining its unique information tools and deep understanding of individuals, markets and economies, Experian partners with organizations around the world to establish and strengthen customer relationships and provide their businesses with competitive advantage.

For consumers, Experian delivers critical information that enables them to make financial and purchasing decisions with greater control and confidence. Clients include organizations from financial services, retail and catalog, telecommunications, utilities, media, insurance, automotive, leisure, e-commerce, manufacturing, property and government sectors.

Experian plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN) and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 index. Experian has corporate headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, and has operational headquarters in Costa Mesa, Calif., and Nottingham, UK. The Group employs approximately 15,500 people in 38 countries worldwide, supporting clients in more than 65 countries around the world. Revenue for the year ended March 31, 2008, was $4 billion.

For more information, visit http://www.experianplc.com.

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