In simply someday, I constructed a cellular app prototype that demonstrates how Exactly APIs can allow real-time decision-making within the subject—with out deep prior expertise utilizing Exactly capabilities or the developer platform.
For context, I joined Exactly about 3 months in the past as a Product Specialist. I’ve a background in knowledge, engineering, and product, however I used to be fully new to Exactly’s choices.
When the R&D group introduced a Hackathon centered on the Knowledge Integrity Suite APIs, I jumped on the likelihood to take part. I’m nonetheless ramping up, and this felt like the right alternative to dive deeper, study extra concerning the APIs, and discover use instances that would ship actual worth. I used to be curious: How far may I get with simply the APIs and a single day to construct? The reply shocked me—and it actually highlights the pliability of the Knowledge Integrity Suite and the way rapidly it could possibly ship ROI.
The problem was to construct inventive functions powered by the Knowledge Integrity Suite APIs. I knew I may provide you with one thing attention-grabbing and, within the weeks main as much as the occasion, I explored a number of concepts earlier than touchdown on one that actually stood out. What began as a studying train rapidly grew to become a proof level for a way Telcos—and lots of different industries—can enhance enterprise outcomes and speed up operations and evaluation with trusted knowledge and site intelligence.
What did I got down to construct?
Telcos deal with large quantities of deal with knowledge from varied sources. As such, layering their very own community knowledge and enterprise logic onto these geographic datasets to find out if an deal with is serviceable is a crucial functionality. Many shoppers are already centralizing these workflows within the Knowledge Integrity Suite to create a single supply of reality for his or her knowledge.
For the hackathon, I requested myself: How can Exactly APIs amplify the worth of that funding within the Suite?
My purpose was to construct a inventive prototype—a mannequin for what a buyer may develop utilizing Exactly’s Location Intelligence and Knowledge Integrity Suite APIs.
The outcome was DoorWise, a cellular app designed to assist subject groups act on probably the most correct, verified, and up-to-date knowledge by figuring out serviceable addresses. By unlocking real-time insights into serviceability, the app permits smarter gross sales methods, driving effectivity and income.
How is it used?
Think about you’re a door-to-door gross sales agent for a regional Telco supplier. You’re beginning your day and wish to prioritize the streets with the best focus of properties which are each verified high-quality addresses and confirmed as serviceable based mostly on the most recent community knowledge.
While you open the app, it facilities in your present location and shows a map. You possibly can regulate the search radius to concentrate on the realm round you. The app then reveals close by streets, together with the variety of verified, serviceable residential addresses on every one.
See a avenue with numerous potential? Faucet it to view all of the addresses plotted on the map—and similar to that, you realize precisely the place to begin knocking.
The way it works
With just some API calls, DoorWise faucets into trusted knowledge, applies customized serviceability logic, and delivers the related data on to subject brokers.
The app first calls Exactly’s Knowledge Graph API, a single entry level that streamlines entry to related knowledge, to retrieve well-formed addresses inside an outlined search space. Utilizing the Knowledge Graph API’s dynamic knowledge retrieval, I may request precisely the information I wanted—clear addresses, geocoded coordinates, property kind, and the distinctive PreciselyID—based mostly on a easy polygon representing the realm.
After filtering out non-residential properties, the app sends the deal with knowledge to the Knowledge High quality Pipeline Actual-Time Service in my Knowledge Integrity Suite workspace. This triggers a customized pipeline that applies serviceability logic utilizing the supplier’s community knowledge, which is already cataloged within the Suite. A customized coding step annotates every deal with with its serviceability standing.
By matching on PreciselyID, a novel, persistent identifier appended to addresses, the app combines the pipeline outcomes with the unique deal with knowledge, filtering right down to verified, serviceable residential addresses. The app then shows streets ranked by deal with depend, with drill-down views exhibiting particular person addresses on a map.
All in a day’s work! Think about a subject agent seeing a map of streets ranked by ROI potential—powered by real-time knowledge integrity.
I added a light-weight backend for request validation and API coordination to mannequin manufacturing eventualities the place enterprise logic and authentication ought to keep out of consumer code. However the heavy lifting? That’s all dealt with by Exactly APIs.
As this was a one-day hack, I reached for a tech stack I knew nicely and had probably the most confidence in, understanding I may get a working prototype inside 24 hours. Swift, SwiftUI, and Apple MapKit for the cellular app; Python and FastAPI for the backend. And naturally, Copilot helped velocity issues up!
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Why this issues
Constructing a door-to-door gross sales software was a enjoyable hackathon idea, however the greater story is the potential it represents. A cellular app tapping into the facility of the Knowledge Integrity Suite opens the door to numerous prospects, from last-mile supply to dynamic subject operations. There’s no scarcity of comparable, Suite-powered functions that our prospects may simply construct and leverage to unravel their greatest challenges and drive real-world worth.
The serviceability pipeline and the way in which knowledge was delivered to finish customers made this instance particularly compelling. It showcases how the Suite permits highly effective knowledge integrity instruments to be put immediately into the fingers of non-data customers throughout a corporation. Inside seconds, a subject agent can entry the most recent supply of reality for deal with and community availability knowledge, working the identical pipeline the information group makes use of within the Suite.
This prototype is just the start of what’s doable with these constructing blocks. It’s an thrilling time to be at Exactly!
What I discovered
Many organizations goal to “democratize” their knowledge. I see great worth in utilizing the Knowledge Integrity Suite to ascertain guardrails and a single supply of reality. From there, that trusted knowledge will be made accessible throughout the group, for each knowledge professionals and subject groups. Exactly APIs make that doable. The Suite can act as a corporation’s single supply of reality, whereas the APIs will let you ship that trusted knowledge to anybody who wants it, in actual time. The power to deploy Knowledge High quality Pipelines as real-time providers opens up highly effective prospects.
This hackathon additionally gave me a brand new appreciation for distinctive IDs for location knowledge. The PreciselyID was the glue that permit me seamlessly join a number of steps within the workflow and leverage Exactly providers with out dropping deal with id.
Total, this was a enjoyable problem, and I’m pleased with what I in-built simply 24 hours – with only some months of familiarity with Exactly capabilities! It confirmed me what’s doable when trusted knowledge meets creativity: turning knowledge integrity into actionable intelligence throughout a corporation. And that is just the start—Exactly APIs unlock numerous alternatives to deliver knowledge integrity into on a regular basis choices. I’m excited to maintain exploring these prospects with prospects!
Need to study extra about Exactly APIs or attempt them out? Take a look at the Knowledge Integrity Suite Developer Portal.
