Press Release
- Date:
- Wednesday, May 09, 2001
- Contact:
- David Peikin
- Phone:
- (301) 918-0818
- Email:
- G1@schwartz-pr.com
MercuryGate International Selects Group 1´s DataQuality.net Web Service to Enhance Transportation Management Suite
DataQuality.net Provides MercuryGate with Domestic and Global Address Validation Capabilities for Web-Based Global Transportation Management Solution
Apex, NC and Lanham, MD- Group 1 Software (Nasdaq: GSOF) today announced that MercuryGate International, a provider of Internet-based end-to-end transportation management system software, has selected Group 1's DataQuality.net Web service for real-time address verification. MercuryGate's Transportation Management Suite is the first solution that manages a company's entire shipping and transportation processes via the Internet.
"As we developed the Transportation Management Suite, we determined that ensuring address accuracy was an operational and logistical requirement that would significantly benefit our customers," said Steve Blough, chief technical officer at MercuryGate. "With many businesses sharing both domestic and international logistics information and resources in our offering, we felt it was imperative to provide for real-time address quality. We are excited to be working with Group 1 Software and are confident that DataQuality.net will meet our needs for this mission-critical aspect of our solution."
MercuryGate integrates and manages the entire freight movement process from contract negotiation through shipment planning, execution, tracking, receipt, freight bill submission and payment. MercuryGate streamlines logistics procedures and costs by linking users via the Internet. Users also benefit from rapid implementation and low up-front costs while exercising control over enterprise-wide logistics. MercuryGate is the first TMS with a truly muli-enterprise data and security model. The entity structure within the TMS was developed to allow the owners of information to share part or all of their logistics information with their business partners and clients based upon permissions.
"We're pleased to have been selected by MercuryGate to provide real-time, global address verification as part of their end-to-end shipping solution," said Ken Chow, vice president of business development and e-Commerce at Group 1. "MercuryGate's utilization of DataQuality.net underscores the tremendous value of our Web-based offerings for enterprise-wide applications such as the Transportation Management Suite."
DataQuality.net is a comprehensive, real-time Web service that enables e-businesses to realize substantial operational savings as well as increased sales and customer retention. E-businesses can validate, correct and/or format customer address information for over 220 countries and dependencies worldwide and receive enriched demographic and geographic profiles. DataQuality.net users can establish lasting customer relationships and dramatically increase customer loyalty through improved target marketing. From accurate delivery of goods to creating personalized Web buying experiences, DataQuality.net is the total solution.
About Group 1
Group 1 Software is a leading provider of software for data quality, marketing automation, 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.
About MercuryGate International
MercuryGate International, Inc. provides logistics solutions that utilize the Internet infrastructure to enable companies to improve their processes for moving freight. The MercuryGate Transportation Management Suite (TMS) allows easy, secure integration with a company's existing technology environment. TMS provides quick, simple and friendly access for authorized users to a wide range of logistics functions and services. Shippers, Carriers, and 3PLs can realize significant benefits in operational improvements in supply-chain execution. MercuryGate's TMS is an operational engine that initiates and manages logistics transactions. The companies of tomorrow can leverage multi-enterprise communication in real-time via the Internet utilizing MercuryGate today. The supply-chain management software automates a path for revolutionizing the shipment management process based on the actual transaction. Data is no longer duplicated across the enterprise, thus eliminating or reducing data-mapping expense as well as troublesome data synchronization. Users share a common execution platform with the capability to see the same data, at the same time, in the same format in a true operations-level, collaborative environment.