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2008 Customer Conference Updates

Group 1 Software, Inc. is holding its 27th annual Customer Conference from May 21 – 23, 2008 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. The four following tracks will be featured at the conference:

Mailing Efficiency
Meeting postal compliance will change significantly by January 2009 because of the the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) Intelligent Mail Barcode (IMB) requirements. Don’t miss out on gaining the information you need to make knowledgeable decisions regarding your organization’s implementation of IMB while leveraging current mail production investments.

No doubt, a greater understanding of the benefits of ‘Basic vs. Full Service’ will ensure you make the right choices for achieving IMB compliance in a successful, timely and cost effective manner. This track provides you the insight to meet the 2009 USPS IMB regulatory requirements as well as increasing address quality, reducing costs and supporting future Intelligent Mail initiatives. Don’t miss out on this informative opportunity.

Location Intelligence
While an address is important for postal delivery, it does not, by itself, give you the answers you need to run your business effectively especially if your business processes depend on precise location.

Our solutions combine leading–edge address cleansing technology with the most advanced geocoding and spatial analysis functionality. Using our solutions, you can pinpoint the exact latitude and longitude of an address and run spatial determinations based on your in–house guidelines. These leading-edge solutions allow you to automate business processes and make smarter business decisions in a batch environment or make determinations on a single address in real time.

In this track you will gather the intelligence you need to combine leading–edge address cleansing technology with the most advanced geocoding and spatial analysis functionality.

Customer Communication Management
Within the Customer Communication Management (CCM) track, you will learn about this powerful and flexible set of CCM software solutions that help to equip your enterprise with the tools needed to produce, personalize, and present intelligent communications across the customer enterprise. These tools enable you to enhance customer loyalty, increase ROI on customer acquisition initiatives and maximize the lifetime value of each and every customer.

Learn how your relationships with customers, prospects, suppliers and employees can become more effective, more efficient, and far more profitable by providing the ultimate customer experience. Supported by Group 1 customer presentations, this track will introduce you to the latest Pitney Bowes Group 1 offerings, from on-demand and interactive, relevant communications and e-Messaging to online account management and enterprise content management; and provide you with a vision into the future.

Data Quality/Data Integration
Complete and accurate customer data is more than an important corporate asset; it can be your competitive edge. Creating customers for life and more return on customers is what our solutions enable you to do. We’ll show you how to pinpoint opportunities at the individual, household and relationship level — and integrate cost-reduction processes into your business. Our new and improved Customer Data Quality Platform will provide you with the answers you need.

You will also find ways to transform disparate data into actionable information using our data integration solutions. See how every facet of your business can benefit from a documented, repeatable process that’s easy to define, easy to query and even easier to use.

Please watch for more information about the 2008 Customer Conference in future issues of NewsCast. Additional information is available online at the conference Web site at http://www.g1.com//About/Events/Conference.

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Points of Interest...

...Have you updated your Group 1 contact information recently? We encourage you to regularly update your contact information on the Group 1 Technical Support Site’s Update Contact Info page. This information includes your personal contact information, as well as the primary designation information, displayed under the Product Responsibilities section of this page. Primary designation information includes: Primary User, Primary Bill To, and Primary Ship To contacts.

While the Primary designations are displayed under Product Responsibilities of the Update Contact Info page, it is not intended as a page from which primary designation requests should be made. If you wish to change primary designation information, the Product Responsibilities area of the Update Contact Info page directs users to the Request for Primary Contact Record Change Form, available from the Online Forms area of the Support Site.

To update your contact information please visit your account and go to:

http://www.g1.com/Support/Contact/ContactInfoForm.asp?updovr=y

...Join the Group 1 Discussion Forums. Group 1's Online Discussion Forums are great sources to voice your ideas, provide workarounds, and ask questions. These forums cover virtually every Group 1 product and are easily accessed on the Group 1 Web site. They provide customers with a simple tool to become more knowledgeable about Group 1 products. You can post any entry on a related discussion forum to have your ideas heard and your questions answered. In the forums you can bounce ideas around or even receive technical advice from other users. Click on the link below now to register and discuss:

http://www.g1.com/Support/Forums/

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Media Change for CODE-1 Plus, Finalist, and Address Quality Hub Mainframe Customers

Effective March 1, 2008, Group 1 Software, Inc. will provide software and databases for CODE-1 Plus, Finalist, and Address Quality Hub Mainframe customers on 3490e tapes ONLY, as well as on CDs, DVDs and via Internet download. For those customers currently receiving 3480 or 3590 tapes, in January and February we will send data on 3480/3590 and 3490e tapes, but as of March 1, we will send releases and data on 3490e tapes only. For the January and February shipments, we will send 3490e tapes first followed by 3480s or 3590s.

Group 1 has changed its media for the following reasons:

• Because 3490e tapes have greater storage capacity than 3480s. This change will allow us to send fewer tapes to customers for expedited delivery and installation.



• Although 3490e tapes have a smaller storage capacity than 3590s, many customers do not have the technology required to support 3590s. Most data will still fit on a single 3490e tape. In order to provide the majority of our customers with fewer tapes and reduce costs, 3490e tapes will be the only tapes distributed after March 1, 2008.



• Customers have a choice of the following media if they do not accept 3490e tapes: CD, DVD, Internet download, or AutoDelivery depending upon the product or database.

For further assistance, please email Product Distribution Services at PDS@g1.com

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Group 1 University Classes

As mentioned above, the 2008 Customer Conference will be held May 21 – 23, 2008 at the Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Preconference intensives are scheduled for Monday, May 19 and Tuesday, May 20.

For further information or to register for any of the intensives or other classes listed below, please visit the Group 1 University Web site, http://www.g1.com/Education, and choose Online Registration on the left sidebar. Seating is limited, so register early!

Finalist Workshop

Monday, May 19, 2008
Cost: $500.00
Duration: 1 day

The Finalist workshop provides instruction on how to use Finalist address correction software in a batch environment. Upon completion of the workshop, you will be:

• Prepared for installing, setting up and running Finalist
• Educated in USPS® terminology and automation standards

This preconference intensive will include numerous reporting and processing examples.

Advanced StreamWeaver Workshop

Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Cost: $500.00
Duration: 1 day

This advanced StreamWeaver workshop has been designed to help developers push their use of StreamWeaver beyond the simple barcoding applications that most customers have.

In this workshop, we will look at some of the advanced functionality with which customers use StreamWeaver including:

• Calling UserFunctions to make use of external libraries
• Using StreamWeaver to parse non-Print Stream Data
• Calling CASS™ and PAVE™ tools
• The functionality of the StreamWeaver Reprint module
• The use of the Variables Tag group for simple document composition

Prerequisite for this class: Attendance of the StreamWeaver Development workshop or equivalent and a minimum of six months of active experience creating and/or maintaining StreamWeaver applications.

CODE-1 Plus Workshop

Monday, May 19, 2008
Cost: $500.00
Duration: 1 day

In the CODE-1 Plus workshop, you will learn:

• How CODE-1 Plus improves the address quality of mail, saving you the time and money it takes to reprocess undeliverable mail
• Mailing concepts and techniques to return a complete standardized address
• How to implement DPV™ and LACS^Link™ processing

Instructional techniques will include lecture and hands-on training.

Mailstream Plus Workshop

Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Cost: $500.00
Duration: 1 day

In the MailStream Plus workshop, you will learn:

• MailStream Plus sortation concepts
• Implementation techniques for MailStream Plus sortation
• Basic USPS® regulations and postal discounts for selected classes of mail

Instructional techniques will include lecture and hands-on training.

DOC1 Series 5 Basic – “UNDERSTANDING THE ESSENTIALS”

Monday, May 19 – Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Cost: $1,500.00
Duration: 2 days

Need to sharpen your DOC1 Series 5 programming skills? Are you about to embark on a Series 5 project and interested in getting to know the basics quickly?

This hands-on, two-day course will provide nearly all of the training in our normal two-and-a-half-day class but in a more intensive format and will meet the prerequisite for attending the Series 5 Advanced class.

Topics covered will include:

• Overview of the various Series 5 Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)
• Text, table and object formatting options
• Options for conditional logic in Series 5
• Messaging options
• Data acquisition, formatting and use
• Use and formatting of transactional (repeating) data
• The complete Document Publishing path
• Creation of a Print Stream

This course is limited in seating to five (5). Pre-registration is required to attend.

Sagent Data Flow – “YOU GET TO CHOOSE”

Monday, May 19 – Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Cost: $1,500.00
Duration: 2 days

How do you use Sagent Data Flow? Are you a “power user” – someone who builds DataMarts and devises Data Flow Plans? Are you a more casual user – someone who views and analyzes your company’s data? Are you someone who has just heard of this product and would like hands-on experience to help you decide if Sagent Data Flow is right for you?

If you fit into any of the above categories, we are offering a unique Sagent training experience at this year’s annual conference. You decide how much you want to know – you decide the depth of Sagent information you need!

We will be providing a two-day Sagent class. Come for the first day if you want a good general overview of Sagent, and stay for the second day if you want to get more in-depth information. You get to choose!

Topics covered on Day One will include:

• Complete overview of the Sagent environment
• The basic GUI
• Creation of simple plans
• Work with the Sagent Analysis module
• Work with the Sagent Reports module
• Quick demo of Sagent WebLink

Topics covered on Day Two will include:

• More in-depth work with all of the basic Sagent Transforms
• Creation of several Sagent Plans from scratch
• Work with creating DataMarts

This course is limited in seating to six (6). Pre-registration is required to attend.

Customer Data Quality Platform (CDQP) – Universal Addressing Module (UAM)

Monday, May 19 – Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Cost: $1,500.00
Duration: 2 days

This introductory CDQP for UAM intensive has been designed to help new users develop their use of control stages and building data flows within Enterprise Designer. In this intensive we will learn about:

• CDQP – what is it?
• CDQP available modules
• Module features, functions and benefits
• Building batch jobs using UAM components
• Building services using UAM components
• Use of control stages

OTHER GROUP 1 UNIVERSITY CLASSES

CODE-1 Plus – Dispatcher4

March 18 – 19, 2008 in Lanham, MD
April 8 – 9, 2008 in Lanham, MD
May 6 – 7, 2008 in Lanham, MD
June 10 – 11, 2008 in Lanham, MD

In this course, you will learn how CODE-1 Plus improves the address quality of mail, saving you the time and money it takes to reprocess undeliverable mail. Additionally, you will learn mailing concepts and techniques to return a complete standardized address.

Duration: 2 days

Objectives:

• Understand the capabilities and benefits of CODE-1 Plus
• Understand the CODE-1 Plus system flow and relationships
• Understand the CASS™ requirements and the CASS™ report
• Search the CODE-1 Plus database using the Interactive System to answer specific queries
• Define and discuss US Postal Service™ terminology and concepts
• Create and submit a batch job that invokes the CODE-1 Plus driver program, access the matching subroutine and produce reports
• Learn the basic features and functions of supplemental processing options, including EWS, DPV™ and RDI™

DOC1 Series 4 Basic

February 26 – 28, 2008 in Addison, TX
April 1 – 3, 2008 in Lanham, MD

This course concentrates on the DOC1 Designer suite and introduces the DOC1 Generate Production environment. The course covers data and print stream manipulation, document logic control and the use of fonts, images, overlays, lines, text and boxes.

Duration: 2 days

DOC1 Series 5 Basic – "Understanding the Essentials"

February 12 – 14, 2008 in Addison, TX
March 18 – 20, 2008 in Lanham, MD
April 8 – 10, 2008 in Addison, TX

This complete hands-on training course enables you to master everything from the basic DOC1 Series 5 functions to more complex features. Through exercises designed to simulate real-life applications, this course will be delivered in a step-by-step interactive educational atmosphere.

Duration: 2.5 to 3 days

DOC1 Series 5 Advanced – "Total Knowledge of Solutions"

February 12 – 14, 2008 in Addison, TX
February 20 – 22, 2008 in Lanham, MD
April 15 – 17, 2008 in Lanham, MD

This course is different than our traditional instructor-led courses in that it guides students through complex logic and allows them to solidify and apply the information while resolving real business needs. This course is designed for advanced users and will allow students to immediately use the knowledge gained with self-paced skill-building exercises.

Duration: 2.5 to 3 days

Objectives:

• Obtain in-depth exposure to logic techniques
• Use DOC1 Series 5 to build applications that resolve real business requirements

DOC1 Series 5 PCE (Post Composition Engine) – “Modification Scripting Tool”

March 4 – 6, 2008 in Lanham, MD

In this course, students will receive comprehensive training in the use of the DOC1 PCE tool. Fundamental techniques and practical exposure through popular post-processing scripts will be the core of this course. This course concentrates solely on handling the requirements of post-processing with hands-on exercises to reemphasize techniques.

Duration: 2.5 to 3 days

Objective:

• Learn about common PCE script operations through self-paced exercises designed to focus on satisfying common business requirements.

List Conversion Plus

May 13, 2008 in Lanham, MD

In this course, you will learn learn how to convert files to a standard in-house format using List Conversion Plus.

Duration: 1 day

Objectives:

• Be able to describe the List Conversion Plus system and its components
• Identify and use work areas
• Be able to describe the name and address parsing functions
• Create and run a batch job that converts multiple input files to one standard format

MailStream Plus – Dispatcher4

March 20 – 21, 2008 in Lanham, MD
May 8 – 9, 2008 in Lanham, MD
June 12 – 13, 2008 in Lanham, MD

You will learn how MailStream Plus presorts your mailing file to USPS® specifications. Basic USPS® regulations and possible postal discounts for selected classes of mail will be discussed.

Duration: 1.5 days

Objectives:

• Be able to discuss the MailStream Plus system components and functions
• Understand the USPS® system of pricing tiers and their relationship to worksharing
• Create and submit batch jobs for different mailing classes and types
• Generate and review MailStream Plus reports
• Understand the benefits of a default-driven mail sortation system

Call for dates.

Merge/Purge Plus

May 14, 2008 in Lanham, MD

You will learn how to merge multiple name/address files and delete duplicate records using Merge/Purge Plus.

Duration: 1 day

Objectives:

• Learn about the Merge/Purge Plus features and system components
• Define a duplicate and list the kinds of duplicates that Merge/Purge Plus can identify
• Create and run a batch job
• Analyze and review reports generated by Merge/Purge Plus

Sagent Solution

March 25 – 27, 2008 in Addison, TX

This course introduces you to the design, customization and creation of business intelligence solutions using the Sagent Platform. You will be guided through the individual components that make up the full Sagent Solution using hands-on labs and exercises.

Duration: 3 days

Objectives – Upon completion, the student will be able to:

• Create and optimize Sagent data load plans to access, analyze and collaborate on data
• Use Sagent Analysis to summarize results by multiple dimensions
• Create and optimize graphical, aggregate and logical views of databases
• Manage DataMart security and administrative environment
• Extract legacy data from a source database and load a target data warehouse
• Configure and use WebLink to access the data warehouse over the Internet

StreamWeaver

February 26 – March 1, 2008
March 25 – 28, 2008 in Lisle, IL
April 15 – 18, 2008 in Lanham, MD
June 3 – 6, 2008 in Lisle, IL
June 17 – 20, 2008 in Lanham, MD

This workshop is appropriate for new technical StreamWeaver users or those who attended training prior to the release of StreamWeaver 4.0.

Duration: 3.5 days

Objectives – Upon completion, the student will be able to code StreamWeaver to perform the following:

• Reorder pages within documents
• Add, delete or modify barcodes for insertion equipment
• Create multiple-document output
• Consolidate documents
• Insert pages into a document
• Create extract files

Call for dates.

Advanced StreamWeaver

February 20 – 21, 2008 in Lisle, IL
March 18 – 19, 2008 in Newport Beach, CA
April 2 – 3, 2008 in Lanham, MD
May 7 – 8, 2008 in Lisle, IL

In this course, you will learn advanced topics in the StreamWeaver environment.

Duration: 1.5 days

Prerequisite for this class: Attendance of the StreamWeaver development workshop or equivalent and a minimum of six months active experience creating and/or maintaining StreamWeaver applications.

Objectives – Upon completion, the student will be able to:

• Make calls to external libraries
• Cleanse addresses and presort documents in accordance with USPS® CASS™ and PAVE™ regulations
• Create indexes that can be used by the StreamWeaver Reprint module as well as creating control files for runs of that module
• Parse data on a record basis, thereby allowing StreamWeaver to handle non-print stream files or nonstandard data
• Use the Variables Tag group to populate data on page layouts

VeriMove

Call for dates.

This course will teach you how to comply with the USPS Move/Update requirement.

Duration: 1 day

Objectives – Upon completion, the student will be able to:

• Describe the Move/Update requirements of the USPS®
• Understand installation and certification requirements for VeriMove and National Change of Address^Link™ (NCOA^Link™)
• Set up the VeriMove software to match your site's requirements
• Set up and run VeriMove batch jobs

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