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Application Express within New Zealand Post. David Thornburrow Senior Data Architect New Zealand Post. Agenda. New Zealand Post Application Express N ational P ostal A ddress D atabase (NPAD) N PAD D ata A ttributes M aintenance (NDAM) M overs A ddress L ist T ool (MALT).
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Application Express withinNew Zealand Post David Thornburrow Senior Data Architect New Zealand Post
Agenda • New Zealand Post • Application Express • National Postal Address Database (NPAD) • NPAD Data Attributes Maintenance (NDAM) • Movers Address List Tool (MALT)
New Zealand Post Serving New Zealanders since 1840 Approximately 17,000 employees Has around 97% of the domestic postal market 96.8% of mail is delivered on time Processes over 1 billion items of mail each year Between 500,000 and 700,000 people visit our PostShops each week
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History of Application Express Oracle 9ir2 January 2006 2007 July 2007 August 2008 2009 HTML DB Renamed Application Express V3.0 Released V3.0.1 Released V3.1.2 Released V4 Planned
Application Express Architecture • Versions Before Oracle 11.1 • Versions After Oracle 11.1
National Postal Address Database (NPAD) • One database – single source of the truth • Building a single system for validating, maintaining and distributing core address data • Geospatial data model ensures data completeness, integrity and consistency across all address elements • NZ Post is confident of managing address changes in the future
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Why Build NDAM? • Improve the timeliness of data updates • Reduce the effort required to make changes • Remove the possibility of mistakes being made due to data changes • Remove the requirement of a DBA
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MALT Requirements Reduce Datamail operational costs Reduce the time to generate datalists Improve the ordering process Enable NZ Post to have control over new movers data lists The new prospect planning tool was a year away from completion
Summary • Application Express is a quick and agile tool • NDAM • Allowed real-time updates • Simplified the process for NPAD Attribute updates • Removed the need of a DBA to make changes • MALT • Datalists can now be generated on the fly • Improved customer service • Removed the dependence on Datamail to create standard datalists