Press Release
- Date:
- Monday, August 25, 2003
- Contact:
- David Peikin
- Phone:
- (301) 918-0818
- Email:
- G1@schwartz-pr.com
Group 1 Introduces Data Quality Industry's
First Web Services Architecture
Universal Coder Provides Global Address Verification Within a Single API
Lanham, MD — Group 1 Software (Nasdaq: GSOF) today announced the release of its new Universal Coder, the first product built on Group 1's new LESLIE architecture. LESLIE enables organizations to integrate Group 1's data quality services seamlessly across the enterprise. The Universal Coder incorporates Group 1's industry-leading address validation, correction and standardization technologies for over 220 countries and dependencies worldwide.
LESLIE is a platform-independent enterprise data quality architecture. By utilizing this unified product architecture, Group 1's data quality solutions can be more easily integrated, configured and maintained, including their use in a Web Services architecture. Through this highly extensible, consistent single point of integration, companies will be able to integrate more quickly these key data quality functions into third-party applications, legacy applications and data repositories.
Group 1's new Universal Coder, built upon LESLIE, provides unparalleled flexibility by letting organizations implement global address data quality in their own enterprises, or even access this functionality via hosted services using the same API. The Universal Coder is the only address data quality product on the market that can process global address data in a single pass: mixed data from any number of countries can be submitted and processed simultaneously. The Universal Coder supports Java, COM, C, and C++ interfaces and can be easily integrated into a .NET environment.
“There is an increasing realization that data quality is a fundamental business requirement for the success of enterprise applications,” said Ted Friedman, principal analyst at Gartner, Inc. “The growing adoption of Web Services will make it easier to integrate, deploy and maintain data quality throughout the enterprise.”
By providing global address data quality, the Universal Coder enables users to maximize returns from multinational marketing campaigns by ensuring that communications actually reach customers and prospects as planned. Additionally, by utilizing a foundation of valid data, users can more easily develop an accurate, single customer view, thereby increasing the return from CRM initiatives.
“With the growing adoption of Web Services, permitting software components to be delivered over Internet standard technologies, it is increasingly important that vendors provide compatible technologies,” said Bob Bowen, CEO of Group 1 Software. “The LESLIE architecture offers rapid, seamless integration of our leading data quality solutions into mission-critical applications.”
The Universal Coder is currently available on NT and Unix, including Sun Solaris, HP UX, AIX and Linux. In the coming months, Group 1 anticipates migrating its core data quality applications to this advanced new architecture.
To learn more about the Universal Coder, LESLIE, and Group 1's data quality solutions, visit the company's booth (#501) at the DCI Customer Relationship Management Conference & Exposition in New York City, August 26-27 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.
About Group 1 Software Group 1 Software (Nasdaq: GSOF) is a leading provider of software solutions for data quality, customer communications management and direct marketing applications. Group 1's software systems and services enable over 2,000 customers worldwide to market smarter by helping them find, reach and keep customers. Founded in 1982 and headquartered in Lanham, Maryland, Group 1's solutions are utilized by leaders in the financial services, banking, retail, telecommunications, utilities, e-commerce, and insurance industries. The company's customer base includes such recognized names as Charles Schwab, Entergy, GEICO, L.L. Bean, QVC and Wal-Mart. For more information about Group 1, visit the company's Web site at http://www.g1.com.