Pitney Bowes Solutions Running on AWS Will Provide Location
Intelligence, Shipping and Address Validation Solutions on Agile and
Elastic Cloud Architecture
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 9, 2015--
At the AWS
Summit in San Francisco, Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI), a global
technology company that provides innovative products and solutions to
power commerce, announced that Location Intelligence, Data Quality,
Shipping, Mailing, Digital Document Management and Data Analytics now
run on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Built on AWS, Pitney Bowes customers’
mission-critical SaaS applications benefit from the reliability,
performance and security provided by the AWS Cloud. Pitney Bowes also
announced that the company is now an Advanced Technology Partner in the
AWS Partner Network (APN) and will leverage AWS Marketplace to deliver
product offerings to a broad set of AWS customers in an easy to access
and manage, on-demand environment.
One of the first major Pitney Bowes offerings on AWS is Spectrum
On-Demand. The solution provides a host of high-value data quality
and enrichment services including programmable APIs and Web services for
clients to embed within their own applications such as CRM. Spectrum
On-Demand provides a range of functions including Global Address
Verification and Move Update, Matching and De-duplication, Geographic
and Demographic Data Append, Phone and Reverse-Phone Append, and Watch
List Screening. With one billon Spectrum On-Demand transactions
worldwide to date, the move of Spectrum On-Demand to AWS supports the
growing demand from global enterprise customers and the SLAs they
require for their critical business applications.
KBM
Group, the global leader in knowledge-based solutions, helps clients
achieve better returns on marketing with Spectrum On-Demand from Pitney
Bowes. KBM Group’s Vice President, Configuration Services Randy Herzog
said, “Spectrum On-Demand helps us exploit the hidden value in global
data and unlock its strategic potential. Efficient global name and
address standardization is critical to the success of customer
communications for our international clients. The move to AWS benefits
our operations by providing the flexibility, scalability and elasticity
our clients require to improve their marketing ROI.”
“With AWS, a broader set of clients can access our solutions seamlessly,
and our developers can design and deliver solutions faster, more
efficiently and on a global scale,” said Roger Pilc, Chief Innovation
Officer at Pitney Bowes. “Pitney Bowes is looking forward to working
closely with AWS to accelerate our transformation to drive our growth
and operational efficiency. AWS will help Pitney Bowes address our
customers’ needs as physical and digital worlds converge and require new
ways of developing products and delivering them to market.”
“We see enterprise customers and independent software vendors
accelerating their migration of product development, testing and
mission-critical production applications to AWS,” said Terry, Wise, Vice
President of Worldwide Partner Ecosystem, Amazon Web Services, Inc. “We
are very excited to be working with Pitney Bowes to support their
efforts to bring innovative new business solutions to customers using a
secure, cost-effective and agile cloud delivery model.”
Pitney Bowes has already realized a number of benefits resulting from
its use of AWS:
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Pitney Bowes has saved time and money in scalability performance
testing for a customer seeking to geocode 30 billion data records.
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Use of AWS has accelerated the development time of Pitney Bowes’
latest generation of shipping services for SMBs.
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Pitney Bowes is using AWS to launch and test cloud-based mailstream
creation and management solutions for SMBs, which complement existing
physical mailstream creation equipment.
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Using AWS also allows Pitney Bowes to deliver cloud-based Location
Intelligence solutions to developers which scale elastically as demand
for their applications grows.
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Pitney Bowes has been leveraging Amazon Redshift for data analytics to
develop value-added services for its SMB customers.
Pitney Bowes is creating a center of excellence group to ensure AWS best
practices and common services are utilized across Pitney Bowes business
units and product lines.
For more information about Pitney Bowes’ innovative solutions, please
visit www.pb.com
and for Pitney Bowes’ Spectrum on Demand offering, please visit http://www.pitneybowes.com/us/location-intelligence/location-intelligence-software/spectrum-geocoding-on-demand.html.
About Pitney Bowes
Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) is a global technology company offering
innovative products and solutions that enable commerce in the areas of
customer information management, location intelligence, customer
engagement, shipping and mailing, and global ecommerce. More than 1.5
million clients in approximately 100 countries around the world rely on
products, solutions and services from Pitney Bowes. For additional
information, visit Pitney Bowes at www.pb.com.
Source: Pitney Bowes
Pitney Bowes Inc.
Carol Wallace, 203-351-6974
Media Relations
Director
Carol.wallace@pb.com
