Leading Data Warehousing Consultant to Speak At Annual User Conference for Trillium Software; Diogenes Torres Will Speak About Distributed Computing Environments

Business Wire, Feb 9, 2000

Business/Technology Editors

BILLERICA, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 9, 2000

Trillium Software(TM), a Harte-Hanks division, announced today that Diogenes Torres, a guest lecturer with the Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI) and an internationally respected expert on the data warehouse implementation process, will be a guest speaker at Forum2000, the Harte-Hanks annual user conference. Mr. Torres will be speaking about the use of the Trillium Software System(R) in a distributed computing environment. He will be focusing on how Trillium fits in with COM/DCOM and CORBA environments in order to address the e-commerce, CRM and data warehousing markets.

&uot;Distributing computing environments is an important topic of discussion because of the emergence of the Internet as the predominant means of conducting business, both from business- to-business and business-to-consumer,&uot; said Data Warehousing Consultant Diogenes Torres. &uot;Transactions can originate from any place and at any time, and businesses need to capitalize on the data. Companies can only make informed business decisions with valid data and Trillium assures that the data is consistent and accurate.&uot;

&uot;We are ecstatic that Mr. Torres has agreed to speak at this year's conference. Having someone of Mr. Torres' caliber at our conference not only says a lot about our product, but also about the reputation of our company,&uot; said Len Dubois, Trillium's director of marketing. &uot;His expertise and experience will be a great addition to our conference and will provide our customers with a better understanding of how Trillium can be utilized to seamlessly integrate with business service layers.&uot;

Diogenes Torres has over 20 years of experience in data warehousing, OLTP and system architecture. He has implemented multi-platform systems worldwide. He worked at Digital Equipment Corporation and managed the architecture and systems engineering organization for the OLTP group. He also formerly worked at Migration Software Systems where he managed the implementation of data warehousing projects. Torres has designed and taught courses worldwide on architectures, topology and tool selection for successful data warehousing.

Forum2000 will take place in Boston from Sunday, June 4 through Wednesday, June 7, 2000. It will consist of informational sessions consisting of guest speakers, customer speakers and company executives. For additional information about the conference, visit http://www.trilliumsoft.com.

The Trillium Software System(R) is the industry's leading customer data management software for E-Business, CRM, Data Warehouse and ERP solutions. TRILLIUM supports object oriented, component-based architectures, such as CORBA and COM/DCOM, providing Web-enablement for both high performance and e-transaction processing. TRILLIUM maximizes business intelligence by providing organizations with an accurate and complete view of their customers, products and services.

Trillium Software is a Harte-Hanks division. For more information regarding the Trillium Software System, please call 978-436-8900 or visit our Web site at http://www.trilliumsoft.com.

Harte-Hanks, Inc., (NYSE:HHS) San Antonio, TX, is a worldwide direct and interactive marketing company with operations including response management, marketing database and marketing services.