Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software


Press Release

Date:
Thursday, July 06, 2000
Contact:
David Peikin
Phone:
(301) 918-0818
Email:
G1@schwartz-pr.com

Group 1 Software in Top Third of Software Magazine’s 18th Annual Software 500 List


Lanham, MD — Group 1 Software (Nasdaq: GSOF) announced today that the company has been named to the Software 500 list once again. Group 1 was ranked 167th on the Software 500 based on 1999 calendar year revenues of $77.1 million (revenues for Group 1's fiscal year, ended March 31, 2000, were $81.7 million). The Software 500, Software Magazine's list of the world's foremost software and services providers, is featured in the publication's June/July 2000 issue.

"We are highly pleased to be included in the Software 500," said Bob Bowen, CEO of Group 1 Software. "Our inclusion in this year's listing reflects our leadership positions in data quality, electronic document composition, and direct marketing and mailing efficiency systems."

"This distinction comes as we continue to make tremendous progress in our e-commerce initiatives," Bowen added. "We are particularly excited about our partnership with USinternetworking to develop and manage Group 1's DataQuality.net. A web-accessible engine, DataQuality.net will provide a broad variety of real-time, customer data quality and data enrichment solutions for e-commerce and enterprise-wide applications."

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.

Software Magazine is written for business-savvy IT professionals responsible for evaluating, recommending, and purchasing software and services for their organization. The magazine's mission is to focus on the trends in buying and managing strategic software solutions and to explore the issues facing today's IS professional. The magazine is BPA-audited and has a controlled circulation of 75,000.

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