Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software


Press Release

Date:
Monday, June 26, 2000
Contact:
David Peikin
Phone:
(301) 918-0818
Email:
G1@schwartz-pr.com

Leading Telecommunications Firms Worldwide Select DOC1 For Personalized Business Documents


Lanham, MD — Group 1 Software (Nasdaq: GSOF) announced today that top-tier telecommunications providers in various countries have recently selected DOC1, Group 1's electronic document composition system, to create customer-friendly bills, letters, and statements. New DOC1 customers include Convergys in the United States, VIAG Interkom and max.mobil in Germany, EuroTel Bratislava in Slovakia, and Telesp Celular in Brazil.

One of the new customers, max.mobil, had the following comments. "We evaluated several products for document composition and mass printing," said Christian Walter, Head of Partner Management and Business Units at max.mobil. "The flexibility and functionality of DOC1 and the support of Group 1 strongly impressed us, and we enthusiastically believe that choosing DOC1 was a solid business decision. When fully implemented this autumn, DOC1 will be a cornerstone of our Convergent Invoicing Strategy for the future."

Alan Slater, General Manager of Group 1's Electronic Document Systems Division, remarked that "telecommunications providers continue to recognize the strategic value of their billing documents. Increasingly, companies around the world are looking to DOC1 to help them utilize their bills to cross-sell new products and services, strengthen customer loyalty and build brand awareness."

The DOC1 system allows dynamic document applications to be developed in a WYSIWYG environment on a Windows NT workstation. The DOC1 production engine can run under MVS, Windows NT, Windows 2000, UNIX (Sun Solaris, HP/UX and AIX, DEC UNIX), Open VMS, OS/400 or PC DOS.

DOC1 is completely printer independent and produces AFP, HP/PCL, PostScript, PDF and line data output.

Group 1 Software is a leading provider of software for data quality, database marketing, electronic document composition applications, and mailing efficiency and direct marketing applications. Group 1 supports MVS, VSE, AS/400, UNIX (including Linux), Windows NT, Windows 2000 and other operating systems and various computers. Group 1 has offices throughout the United States and in Canada, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe; the Miami office serves the Latin American market. The company is also represented in Asia and Australia.

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