Mecklenburg County Streamlines Address Creation, Validation and Maintenance with FARRAGUT Address One
Lafayette, Colo., July 9, 2009 – FARRAGUT is proud to announce that Mecklenburg County (Charlotte, North Carolina) has successfully implemented Farragut’s AddressOne product. AddressOne is the first and only GIS-enabled, commercial-off-the-shelf product for enterprise addressing.
FARRAGUT AddressOne provides the following benefits for Mecklenburg County:
- Streamlines address creation, validation and maintenance using robust GIS-based tools, leading to increased efficiencies and cost savings
- Increase in the accuracy and reliability of address data
- Ability to centrally manage and standardize the use of both physical and mailing addresses
- Ability to query and validate addressing information using an intuitive browser-based GIS interface
- Tools to maintain history of retired and obsolete addresses
“FARRAGUT follows software development and project management best practices. They work hard to make sure the behind-the scenes technical details are taken care of,” commented David Reeves, Mecklenburg County’s Project Manager. “They build products in a way that allows us to leverage investments we have made in our technology infrastructure.”
Prior to FARRAGUT AddressOne, Land Records personnel had to manually enter the address, parcel ID, and X/Y coordinates for each parcel in the County. In addition, addresses were maintained separately in the Computer-aided Mass Appraisal (CAMA) system, along with the associated parcel ID and ownership information. The Master Address Table and the CAMA system did not talk to each other, but they were tied to the parcel layer in the ESRI geodatabase.
Mecklenburg County GIS Land Records Manager Rhonda Buckner said, “AddressOne disperses the data to the appropriate points in various systems. This eliminates redundant data entry and increases the accuracy and consistency of address data enterprise-wide. We’re able to get all the pieces of the data done in a timelier, more efficient manner.”
AddressOne also provides a mail-friendly address source by supplying addresses in a USPS compliant format and allowing for the maintenance of multiple, purpose-specific addresses that apply to the parcel. A commercial property, for example, may have current addresses for the owner, the property management company, the construction company that pulled the building permit, and others.
“…because of the level of sophistication Farragut has with GIS, they saw how our vision could achieve improved results for all our jurisdictions,” stated Garrett Alexander, Mecklenburg County Tax Assessor. “It goes right down to the people: I think Farragut has some of the most innovative people in this area of business in the nation. Their leadership and commitment to the customer has been a key part of it for me.”
About FARRAGUT
Since 1994, FARRAGUT has been leading the way in using GIS technology to help departmental applications—and personnel—work better together in the service of local constituencies. Farragut combines commercial-off-the-shelf products such as AddressOne and ParcelSync™ with proven deployment expertise to ensure that each solution delivers the expected results. FARRAGUT is a Microsoft® Gold Partner and a longstanding ESRI® Business Partner. For more information about FARRAGUT, visit www.farragut.com.
Contact information
Bill Campbell
FARRAGUT
1860 Industrial Circle, Suite D
Longmont, CO 80501
Phone: 303.385.6459
Cell: 303.875.2324
Email: bill.campbell@farragut.com
