Group 1 And iWay Software Partner To Enhance Enterprise-Wide Data Quality And Customer Data Integration

Group 1 Software (NASDAQ:GSOF), a leading provider of customer relationship management (CRM)-enabling software solutions, and iWay Software, an Information Builders company that accelerates business integration, today announced a strategic alliance to enhance enterprise-wide data quality and integration. The companies plan to work together to offer a tightly integrated solution that provides an accurate single customer view. With a consolidated view of customer interactions across the enterprise, organizations can realize a greater return from marketing investments, enhance decision-making, and maximize customer lifetime value.

iWay's mainframe and open-systems adapters permit users to unify data from multiple touchpoints and a variety of business applications with minimal customization, providing a quicker time-to-market for Group 1's Enterprise Data Quality (EDQ) solution. A comprehensive, flexible, and scalable offering, the EDQ solution incorporates enterprise-wide data consolidation, verification, standardization, and augmentation to create an accurate single customer view. iWay's technology makes populating a data warehouse easier through powerful extract, transform, and load (ETL) functionality that connects with leading data sources from Microsoft, Siebel, SAP, PeopleSoft, IBM, and Oracle.

"We're very excited about our alliance with iWay, which strengthens our EDQ solution by adding powerful data integration capabilities," said Bob Bowen, CEO of Group 1 Software. "By providing easy access to any information system in the enterprise, iWay's technology complements our expertise in verifying and consolidating disparate customer information. The integration of Group 1's and iWay's solutions permits enterprises to make the most informed business and marketing decisions."

"This partnership is of great value by providing enterprises a single, consolidated view of accurate, up-to-date customer intelligence," said John Senor, president of iWay Software. "Our unmatched ability to deal with data from more than 140 information sources provides Group 1's customers the flexibility and power to deal with the many disparate systems involved in complete enterprise data integration."

Group 1's data quality solutions are the cornerstone of successful CRM initiatives. These applications enable businesses to ensure the integrity of customer and prospect data and enhance that information with valuable geographic and demographic intelligence.

About Group 1 Software

Group 1 Software (NASDAQ:GSOF) is a leading provider of customer relationship management (CRM)-enabling software solutions for data quality, marketing automation, customer communications management, and direct marketing applications. Group 1's software systems and services enable 2,500 customers worldwide to market smarter by helping them find, reach, and keep customers. Founded in 1982 and headquartered in Lanham, Maryland, Group 1's solutions are utilized by leaders in the financial services, banking, retail, telecommunications, utilities, e-commerce, and insurance industries. The company's customer base includes such recognized names as AT&T, Charles Schwab, Entergy, GEICO, L.L. Bean, and Wal-Mart. For more information about Group 1, visit the company's Web site at www.g1.com.

About iWay Software

iWay Software, an Information Builders company, is a market leader in middleware that accelerates business integration. With facilities to integrate systems in real time, near-real time, or on a scheduled basis, iWay provides a complete reusable infrastructure for EAI, B2B, e-commerce, and mobile business. iWay's experience with complex information systems led to the development of prepackaged Intelligent Adapters to connect to more than 140 packaged applications, transaction systems, legacy data, relational databases, and e-business formats, without writing custom code. iWay Software integration solutions significantly reduce the time, cost, effort, and risk of integration projects throughout the enterprise. For more information about iWay software, visit www.iwaysoftware.com.

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