Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software


Press Release

Date:
Tuesday, January 30, 2001
Contact:
David Peikin
Phone:
(301) 918-0818
Email:
G1@schwartz-pr.com

EarthLink Selects Group 1 Software for Customer Data Quality


Lanham, Md.- Group 1 Software (Nasdaq: GSOF) today announced that EarthLink (Nasdaq: ELNK) has selected Group 1's industry leading CODE-1 Plus solution to verify customer and prospect addresses. EarthLink is the nation's second-largest Internet service provider with over 4.6 million subscribers and offers a full range of global hosting and e-commerce solutions.

"After evaluating a number of products, we found that CODE-1 Plus best fit our need for address verification and standardization," said Steve Dougherty, director of systems vendor management at EarthLink. "CODE-1 Plus will help us ensure the accuracy of millions of customer and prospect addresses, thereby enhancing the quality of our internal database."

CODE-1 Plus is a comprehensive software solution that cleans, codes, and standardizes address data. By verifying every element of an address, it is the most efficient and accurate address matching product on the market today. Its precise address data facilitates prompt mail delivery, thereby contributing to increased customer satisfaction. Businesses can obtain substantial cost savings from postal discounts and incentives by using CODE-1 Plus.

"We're very pleased that EarthLink has chosen CODE-1 Plus to help improve their data quality," said Bob Bowen, CEO of Group 1. "EarthLink's selection of Group 1 for this business requirement underscores the tremendous value of our data quality solutions for dealing with customer databases of any size." 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.

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