| Volume 4, Issue 23 | March 21, 2002 |
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Group 1 recently sent the documents listed below to the primary user contacts on a maintenance plan via mass fax, mail, or with your product shipment. You may find these and other documents at www.g1.com/support. (Please have your user ID and password handy.) For our Fax-on-Demand system (FOD), please call 301-918-0781 and select menu option 4 to retrieve the document number indicated below. For LISTSERV, visit the Technical Support - Electronic Product Notification area of our web site to subscribe at www.g1.com/support. On our web site customers may NOT have access to all information listed below. It is only accessible if your company licenses the particular product and/or platform addressed by the announcement. INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTS REF#: C6P3003d1 - This one-page letter notifies customers of a problem with callable functions in Canadian CODE-1 Plus 3.0.0. A product update is available through Special Request Downloads. The Access Code is provided in the letter.
POSTAL PRODUCTS REF#: MSP6332d3 - This one-page product update for AS/400 customers deals with the following defects: 1-3229173, 1-3238171, and 1-3287704. The Special Request Download access code is provided for the product update.
REF#: MSP6333d1 - This one-page letter makes customers aware of an issue with MailStream Plus/Palletization Plus 6.3.3 that affects customers attempting to process Standard and Periodicals flats palletized mailings using the M910 sortation rules. An update for this issue is available through Special Request Downloads. The access code is provided in the letter.
 From the start, Horizons 2002 promises to be an outstanding experience. Pre-conference intensives include traditional classes for MailStream Plus, CODE-1 Plus, and Merge/Purge - A great educational opportunity for new users or a "refresh" for long time users. We have also added for the first time - GeoTAX and DOC1 classes Get the latest word from the technical staff on the major changes to some of the products you may be using. Discuss with key Group 1 staff members the effects of the pending postal rate increase. Keep some of the tried and true sessions while adding many new sessions dedicated to industry issues to your schedule. Don't forget the always interesting Keynote Speaker who starts off the conference and the entertaining humorist who is with us for lunch on Thursday. Just when you think to yourself "what else could they offer," we surprise you with more. The Technical Help Center and Solutions Center are back by popular demand. Relax and enjoy the evening at our Block Party Thursday night. Take this opportunity to get to know fellow customers and the Group 1 staff in a different forum. For additional information about the Conference, Hotel, and Pre-Conference Intensives or to register online, visit the Group 1 web site at www.g1.com/uconf. Session descriptions will be added shortly - so keep checking. Don't forget about our 3 for 2 special available now through March 31, 2002! Enhanced Carrier Route (ECR) letter-size pieces mailed at high-density and saturation-per-piece rates would be required to meet the physical standards for automation-compatible mail in DMM C810 and would be required to have a delivery point barcode. Pieces using a simplified address would not be required to have a delivery point barcode, and therefore, would not need to meet the physical standards for automation-compatible mail. This change would apply to both ECR and Nonprofit ECR. Requiring high-density and saturation letters to be barcoded would give the Postal Service operational flexibility and would eliminate the need to barcode these pieces before delivery point sequencing (DPS). The Postal Service updates its DPS process daily. Therefore, any changes in route assignments between carriers are captured in the DPS process daily; mailers are permitted to use carrier route information that could be up to 90 days old. The proposed automation-compatible requirement corresponds to the requirement for a delivery point barcode - for the Postal Service to read the barcode, the piece must be compatible with automated mail sorting equipment. These requirements would not apply to detached address labels (DALs) that accompany flat-size pieces or irregular parcels. Even though the DAL itself is letter-sized, technically it is the label for the larger piece. Pieces that do not meet the physical standards in C810 or that do not contain a delivery point barcode would be subject to the corresponding ECR high-density or saturation non-letter rate. Pieces that are letter-size but are claimed at the non-letter rates would be marked, sorted, and trayed as letters. Mailers also would have the option to pay the ECR basic letter rate (for which barcodes are not required). There are no proposed changes to the sequencing requirements, markings, or sortation for ECR pieces. Tray labels would change to reflect whether the pieces in the tray are barcoded ("BC"), not barcoded but machinable ("MACH"), or nonmachinable, regardless of whether the pieces are barcoded ("MANUAL" or "MAN"). These designations help the Postal Service direct the trays of mail to the appropriate mail processing operation. Mailers would be required to use barcoded tray labels. Pieces mailed with a simplified address format do not contain the necessary address elements to generate a delivery point barcode for that address. To qualify for the high-density or saturation letter rates, those pieces would not have to bear a delivery point barcode, would not have to be automation-compatible, and would be labeled "MAN" (even if the pieces are automation-compatible). Pieces mailed with an exceptional or occupant address format (A040) do contain enough address elements to generate a delivery point barcode, and therefore, must be automation-compatible and must have a delivery point barcode in order to claim the high-density or saturation letter rates. ~Federal Register, January, 2002
The next Local User Group meeting in your area is just around the corner. These meetings give you the opportunity to
meet with other users and discuss the latest "hot topics" involving Group 1 products and the industry. Mark your calendars, attend
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Education classes are currently being offered in Maryland, California, and Illinois for a number of Group 1's products. Don't miss out on this opportunity to bring something new and valuable back to your company. For more information regarding our education classes, visit our Education department's web site at www.g1.com/education or call 800-859-4133.
Group 1 Software recently announced that RSA Security Inc., the most trusted name in e-security®, has implemented Group 1's Data Quality Connector for Siebel. The Group 1 Data Quality Connector for Siebel eBusiness Applications provides accurate, consolidated customer and prospect data in both batch and interactive modes by verifying address information and merging duplicate records. Headquartered in Bedford, Mass., RSA Security helps organizations build secure, trusted foundations for e-business through its two-factor authentication, Web access management, encryption and digital certificate management systems. “The Group 1 Data Quality Connector is an innovative way to maintain ongoing data quality within our Siebel eBusiness applications software,” said Gerry Wilson, CIO at RSA Security. “Prior to implementing the Data Quality Connector, we had imported information from disparate sources into our Siebel application without using any formal data quality practices, resulting in a significant number of duplicate accounts. With the Group 1 solution, we verify addresses on a global basis verification and identify, consolidate and/or eliminate redundant records interactively. With this fully integrated data quality solution, we anticipate greater user acceptance of our Siebel application.” Group 1's address data quality products enable Siebel eBusiness Applications users seamlessly to validate, correct, and format addresses for the United States and more than 220 countries and dependencies worldwide. By incorporating global address data quality into Siebel eBusiness Applications, organizations can increase target marketing effectiveness, enhance customer relationships through improved service, and help provide for on-time delivery of goods and services. Group 1's highly robust customer data integration functionality enables users to preserve previously entered information and automatically capture new data when merging duplicate records, without disrupting workflow. Consolidating customer records within Siebel eBusiness Applications provides businesses an accurate single customer view, with knowledge of the products and services are utilizing across the enterprise. An accurate, enterprise-wide customer view is necessary to achieve loyalty and strengthen the bottom line. “We're pleased to have been selected by RSA Security to provide an accurate single customer view within the company's Siebel application,” said Bob Bowen, CEO of Group 1 Software. “Gartner Group asserts that high quality, well-integrated customer data is the cornerstone of a successful CRM initiative*. By using our Data Quality Connector, RSA Security can ensure the accuracy of contact information throughout the enterprise, thereby enhancing customer relationships.” * Gartner, "Customer Data Quality and Integration: The Foundation of Successful CRM," 28 November 2001, S. Nelson, R. Singhal, W. Janowski, N. Frey
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