NEW YORK, Nov. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Broadridge
Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) and Pitney Bowes Inc.
(NYSE:PBI) today announced an interactive
digital communications exchange that will make it easier
for businesses to communicate with consumers about their most
important transactions. This new platform, powered by Amazon Web
Services (AWS), will enable consumers to securely receive and store
documents and manage payments on any participating online channel
they choose. The companies made this announcement at the AWS
re:Invent Conference in Las
Vegas.
The digital communications exchange will empower consumers to
more easily automate and manage payments such as their credit cards
and mortgage, as well as organize important documents such as tax
information and health insurance through their tablet, mobile phone
or computer -- all while reducing their paper consumption. Sitting
atop the AWS highly secure and reliable cloud storage solution,
consumers will have an impressive seven-year archive of documents
that they can access from anywhere, at any time.
This new service will allow companies to digitally distribute
documents to their customers via a variety of secure online
channels that the exchange feeds. By consolidating account activity
to a single platform with a single integration, companies will be
able to provide consumers with tailored communications together
with advanced customer service and long-term storage of electronic
communications – while eliminating the need for the customer to
manage multiple website logins and passwords.
One of the first platform channels that will be made available
will be an application for Kindle Fire tablets available via the
Amazon Appstore. This application will enable millions of Kindle
Fire tablet users to access and manage their most important
documents in just a few clicks. This application was demonstrated
at the AWS re:Invent Conference and will be released in the first
quarter of calendar year 2014.
"We are excited to be working with Broadridge and Pitney Bowes
as they leverage the power of AWS technologies to bring new
capabilities to financial communications and encryption," said
Ariel Kelman, Head of Worldwide
Marketing, AWS. "With AWS, they are able to gain the benefits of
flexibility, reliability and security delivered by the AWS
cloud."
The digital communications exchange is powered by some of the
most respected businesses in the United
States. Broadridge Financial Solutions, whose technologies
power the securities industry, is combining its Fluent
communications solution with Pitney Bowes' digital mail expertise,
technology and extensive reach to businesses of all sizes. The
platform will run on AWS infrastructure to centrally manage
communications for businesses that sign up, including financial
institutions such as banks, brokers, asset managers, and insurance
companies, utilities, telecommunication companies, small businesses
and a host of other businesses.
"Broadridge is transforming communications for our clients and
we are pleased to be working with AWS and Pitney Bowes to
revolutionize this process," said Doug
DeSchutter, President, U.S. Regulatory and Digital
Communications, Broadridge. "Together we are creating an innovative
service that enhances the consumer experience and offers greater
interaction with consumers to build brand loyalty and create new
revenue opportunities."
"We are confident that this digital communications exchange will
help companies deliver documents securely and more efficiently all
while engaging customers where they are making transactions," says
Chuck Cordray, President of Digital
Mail Solutions, Pitney Bowes. "By giving companies the ability to
go through a single integration point to distribute their content
where their consumers choose to go, we are going to dynamically
change the online relationship between consumer and company."
This digital communications exchange will be branded and is
expected to launch in the first quarter of 2014. For more
information about this service, please contact Brian.Wilson@pb.com
or Adam.Berke@broadridge.com.
About Broadridge
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) is the leading
provider of investor communications and technology-driven solutions
for broker-dealers, banks, mutual funds and corporate issuers
globally. Broadridge's investor communications, securities
processing and business process outsourcing solutions help clients
reduce their capital investments in operations infrastructure,
allowing them to increase their focus on core business
activities. With 50 years of experience, Broadridge's
infrastructure underpins proxy voting services for over 90% of
public companies and mutual funds in North America, and processes more than
$5 trillion in fixed income and
equity trades per day. Broadridge employs approximately 6,400
full-time associates in 13 countries.
For more information about Broadridge, please visit
www.broadridge.com.
About Pitney Bowes
Pitney Bowes provides technology solutions for small, mid-size
and large firms that help them connect with customers to build
loyalty and grow revenue. Many of the company's solutions are
delivered on open platforms to best organize, analyze and apply
both public and proprietary data to two-way customer
communications. Pitney Bowes includes direct mail,
transactional mail and call center communications in its solution
mix along with digital channel messaging for the Web, email and
mobile applications. Pitney Bowes: Every connection is a new
opportunity™. www.pb.com.
Media Contacts:
Kelly Howard
Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc.
(212) 981-1347
kelly.howard@broadridge.com
Lolita Verny-Acosta
Pitney Bowes Inc.
(203) 898-3697
Lolita.VernyAcosta@pb.com
SOURCE Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.