Just got an email that the Cicero API for NPSP is being decommissioned on June 1st! Boooo!
Apparently this is a result of the acquisition of Cicero by Melissa Data Corporation. For those affected, what are your plans? Which is better for address verification - Google or Smarty Streets? For those of us that are losing the super cool legislative data that Cicero provided, is there any good option other than doing a manual export/import/update?
@Robert Foley I was going to ask the same question, appreciate the update from Cicero. Our government relations team will be grumpy about losing the state legislative district info, but we'll probably use Cicero District Match with periodic batch imports for that moving forward (until another solution pops up).
We haven't decided on next steps yet. We used SmartyStreets on our pre-Salesforce system and it did the trick, so that might be our play. Haven't used the NPSP integration though, so I can't vouch for that. Hopefully it's still functional!
We're also considering whether we'll want to start verifying addresses before they hit Salesforce. Most of our addresses come into Salesforce via FormAssembly web forms, and they have an integration with Loqate that would theoretically pre-scrub incoming addresses. We'll still need to supplement that with District Match batch updates, but it should kind of work.
