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Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software, Inc., and Composite Software, Inc. today announced a joint OEM/Business Development partnership to deliver solutions that integrate data quality excellence with real-time access and data federation capabilities for better decision-making across global enterprises. Both SOA-based, the Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software Customer Data Quality Platform (CDQP) combined with Composite Software�s award-winning Composite Information Server and Composite Application Data Services� will provide users with real-time access to rich, cleansed customer information and other enterprise data. �The integrated offering is designed for the data steward, making his or her job of creating a single, accurate view of the customer easier,� said Jay Bourland, vice president and general manager, Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software. Composite Software provides the ability to rapidly access and federate information that is often difficult to reach, such as master data and operational data from popular packaged applications including Siebel�, SAP�, Oracle� EBS, salesforce.com�, and other similar enterprise systems. Then Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software�s CDQP seamlessly ingests this data based on customized business rules to create an accurate and consolidated view of customers or other information. The results are fed into a master data repository or applied back to the source systems. �Businesses have made huge investments in information systems for their important data about customers, inventory, financials, etc.,� noted Patrick Drummond, director of ISV/OEM Sales, Composite Software. �Without access to accurate, up-to-date information, these businesses are not empowered to make the best decisions. However, the single updated customer view provided by the combination of Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software and Composite Software enables organizations to make more informed business decisions that drive bottom-line results.� About Composite Software, Inc. Composite Software, Inc. provides a real-time approach to data integration.�Hundreds of enterprises including five of the top six U.S. investment banks as well several Government agencies, such as the Office of Secretary of Defense and Intelligence, and software vendors including Cognos, Informatica and BMC, rely on the Composite Information Server� to virtualize, abstract and federate data from multiple, disparate sources and deliver this real-time information to their applications.�Composite Software�s technology fulfills real-time information requirements, enabling enterprises to respond faster to business requests, reduce their data integration costs, and keep pace with ever-changing business needs. Founded in 2002, Composite Software is a privately held, venture-funded corporation based in Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit www.compositesw.com. Composite Software, Composite Information Server and Composite Application Data Services are registered trademarks or trademarks of Composite Software, Inc. About Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software, Inc. Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software, Inc. (www.g1.com), part of Pitney Bowes, Inc. (NYSE:PBI), turns data into results, providing innovative software solutions that enable our clients to better understand and connect with their millions of customers, prospects, and partners. Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software helps over 3,000 organizations maximize the value of customer data to improve profitability, increase effectiveness, and strengthen customer relationships, through consolidating, cleansing and enriching corporate data, and generating personalized business documents for multi-channel delivery, customer care and efficient business processing. Our comprehensive Customer Data Management (CDM) & Customer Communication Management (CCM) solutions span from database to delivery, adding value to every aspect of communication and allowing clients to integrate intelligence throughout their mail stream. As part of Pitney Bowes (NYSE: PBI), a $6.1 billion company, Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software�s solutions are utilized by leaders in the insurance, financial services/banking, GIS/mapping, government, mail services, retail, telecommunications, utility, and other industries, including Entergy, ING, L.L. Bean, MapQuest, Microsoft, Safeco Insurance, Wal-Mart and Wells Fargo. e2, DOC1, Group 1, Group 1 Software, and the Group 1 logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Group 1 Software, Inc. Pitney Bowes, and the Pitney Bowes Process Bar Design are trademarks or registered trademarks of Pitney Bowes, Inc. All other brand names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Of Note This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. For this purpose, any statement that is not a statement of historical fact is a forward-looking statement, including without limitation statements concerning market demand for Group 1 Software's products and solutions, the potential benefits of Group 1's software to customers, and the integration of�Group 1's�software offerings with existing solutions. Factors that may cause these statements not to be true or to differ materially from the manner in which they are presented include potential difficulties related to third party integration of Group 1's software, market acceptance of Group 1's offerings, decreased spending by customers or potential customers on technology solutions and the impact of economic trends that affect generally the market for Group 1's software and other product offerings.�Group 1�takes no responsibility to update any forward-looking statements.