Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software


Press Release

Date:
Tuesday, January 09, 2001
Contact:
David Peikin
Phone:
(301) 918-0818
Email:
G1@schwartz-pr.com

Group 1 Announces Selection of DOC1 by Banco Itau, Brazil's Second-Largest Bank


Growing Number of Latin American Businesses Turn to DOC1 for Personalized Business Documents

Lanham, MD — Group 1 Software (Nasdaq: GSOF) today announced that Brazil's Banco Itau has selected Group 1's DOC1 to develop customer relationship documents. DOC1 is the fastest way to compose dynamic, easy-to-read personalized business statements, bills and invoices for print and on-line delivery.

"We are excited that Banco Itau has selected DOC1 to compose personalized customer documents," said Alan Slater, general manager of the DOC1 division. "With our growing Latin American customer base and recent additions to our professional staff in the region, we are solidly entrenched as the leading document composition vendor in Latin America."

Designed for seamless, one-to-one customer communication, DOC1 is an easy to use document composition system that facilitates the design and production of attractive, easy-to-read customer relationship documents. Over 400 customers worldwide currently rely on DOC1 to generate millions of customer statements, bills and invoices every day. 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 generates XML, PDF, and HTML for Web presentment as well as AFP, HP/PCL, Postscript, Metacode, and line data for high-speed production printing.

Group 1 Software is a leading provider of software for data quality, database marketing, customer relationship documents, 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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