Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software


Press Release

Date:
Thursday, June 22, 2000
Contact:
David Peikin
Phone:
(301) 918-0818
Email:
G1@schwartz-pr.com

Group 1 Releases DataVerse for Real-time, Web-based Address Validation


Lanham, MD — Group 1 Software (Nasdaq: GSOF), the industry leader in customer name and address data quality, announced today the release of its DataVerse suite of products. This Web-enabled offering enables e-businesses easily to integrate Group 1's state-of-the-art address verification technologies into their Internet applications. The DataVerse family of products supports real-time address validation, correction, and/or formatting for the US, Canada, and over 200 countries worldwide.

"The worldwide explosion in e-commerce has made international address data quality a critical operational requirement for e-businesses," said Bob Bowen, CEO of Group 1. "Group 1's new DataVerse products are a natural extension for the e-commerce marketplace of our leadership position in customer name and address data quality applications."

By ensuring address data quality, the DataVerse product family can improve deliverability of goods and increase customer satisfaction. The highly scalable DataVerse offerings can handle transactional volumes typical of today's leading e-businesses and support both Java and COM interfaces.

The DataVerse product suite consists of DataVerse US, DataVerse Canada, and DataVerse International. DataVerse US and DataVerse Canada validate, correct, and standardize business and residential address data for the United States and Canada, respectively. DataVerse International validates, corrects, and/or formats address data for over 200 countries worldwide.

For an online demonstration of the DataVerse product suite, visit http://www.g1.com/DataVerse/. Group 1 Software (NASDAQ: GSOF) is a leading provider of software for data quality, database marketing, electronic document composition applications, and direct marketing and mailing efficiency applications. Group 1 supports MVS, VSE, AS/400, UNIX (including Linux), Windows NT 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.

# # # This press release may contain statements relating to future plans, events or performance. Such statements may involve risks and uncertainties, including risks associated with uncertainties pertaining to customer orders, demand for products and services, development of markets for Group 1's products and services and other risks identified in Group 1's SEC filings. Actual results, events and performance may differ materially. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which address the conditions as they are found on the date of this press release. Group 1 undertakes no obligation to release publicly the result of any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances that arise after the date of this press release or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. Group 1 Software is a registered trademark and DataVerse is a trademark of Group 1 Software, Inc. All other brand names, trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.