Press Release
- Date:
- Wednesday, June 27, 2001
- Contact:
- David Peikin
- Phone:
- (301) 918-0818
- Email:
- G1@schwartz-pr.com
Financial Services Leader Southwest Securities Selects
Group 1's DOC1 for Personalized Customer Communications
Lanham, MD — Group 1 Software (Nasdaq: GSOF) today announced that Southwest Securities Group, Inc. (NYSE: SWS) has selected Group 1's DOC1 software solution for the rapid generation of high-volume customer communications. Headquartered in Dallas, Southwest Securities offers a wide variety of financial services ranging from processing securities transactions to online investing. The company will be using DOC1 to generate up to 250,000 personalized statements each month.
"With DOC1, we achieve faster statement processing, ensuring that our customers receive up-to-date account information," said Ann Hollingsworth, vice president at Southwest Securities. "Now, we can easily include personalized information in our customer communications while maintaining increased internal control over the look-and-feel of our documents."
"We are pleased to be the product of choice for a leading technology-driven financial services company like Southwest Securities," said Alan Slater, president of Group 1's DOC1 division. "Southwest's selection of DOC1 underscores the value of Group 1's customer communications solutions for generating one-to-one financial documents."
DOC1 enables over 450 businesses worldwide to create high impact customer-focused communications for delivery via print, Web, e-mail, fax or wireless devices. Business marketers use DOC1's rules-based engine to develop and manage highly targeted messaging campaigns.
Group 1 Software is a leading provider of software for data quality, marketing automation, customer relationship communications, 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, continental Europe, and Latin America. The company is also represented in Asia and Australia.
Southwest Securities offers a wide variety of financial services, from securities transaction processing to online investing. The organization has more than 1000 employees and approximately $4.1 billion in total assets. Wholly owned subsidiaries include Southwest Securities, Inc.; Mydiscountbroker.com; First Savings Bank and its online division MyBankUSA.com; SWS Financial Services, Inc.; Westwood Management Corporation; Westwood Trust; SW Capital Corporation and SWS Technologies Corporation.