Trillium Announces Global Technology Alliance Initiative

Trillium Software, a division of Harte-Hanks, has established a Global Technology Alliance Initiative as part of its growing partnership strategies program. The announcement confirms Trillium's commitment to provide organizations with a tightly integrated software solution embedded with the award-winning Trillium Data Quality standard for global, enterprise level customer data management. Trillium's partners are organizations that use technology to make their customers successful, profitable, and leaders in their industry. Several key partnership announcements will begin next week.

Trillium's Global Technology Alliance Initiative is made up of three types of partnerships: Technology Alliance Partners, Integration Partners and International Partners. There are a variety of benefits available to partners participating in the initiative:

• Trillium's industry expertise on data quality and technical leadership,
• access to developed software development kits (SDKs), software plug-ins and callable modules,
• compensation plans that reward partners for sales referrals,
• opportunities for consultants and systems integrators to align with the industry's leading total solution providers,
• and co-marketing programs and opportunities to work with Trillium's marketing team to create awareness of partner solutions.

The Trillium Global Technology Alliance Initiative is comprised of well-recognized leaders in the business, technology, and consulting industry. Each has a history of success and has demonstrated its expertise in systems integration, hardware, software, training and other critical services. Some of Trillium's current Technology Alliance Partners include Compaq, NCR, Informatica, and Ascential Software.

With the Technology Alliance partners, Trillium teams with technology partner companies to create software solutions that embed Trillium Data Quality. Technology Alliance Partners are primarily software companies that provide Trillium customers with software products and applications that are integrated with, complement, and add value to the Trillium Software System.

Trillium's Integration Partners are industry leading systems integrators who have learned the value of Trillium Data Quality and recommend it to their customers, frequently as part of a much larger project. The Integration Partners are experts in Trillium Software System implementations, and represent some of the industry's leading providers of services such as business process redesign, hardware and software integration training, and vertical market expertise. Some of Trillium's Integration Partners include American Management Systems Inc. (AMS), Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting), KPMG, Pricewaterhouse Coopers and Unisys.

Trillium's International Partners program addresses the great success Trillium has achieved on a global basis; more than 20 percent of Trillium's revenues are derived from worldwide operations. This reflects its customers' need to implement projects involving the Trillium Software System across multiple countries in multiple languages. Trillium maintains offices and reseller relationships in the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific and Japan. Its International Partners program is designed to accommodate partners with specific expertise in certain geographic or vertical markets who wish to work alongside Trillium Software. Some of Trillium's International Partners include: Eniac, C.A. QARTA SISTEMAS, S.A. DE C.V., syn-T-sys, Ntech and Agrex of Japan.

"As a leading provider of data quality software, Harte-Hanks seeks to unite Trillium with the most experienced companies in the industry to provide our customers with a comprehensive CRM, e-business and data warehousing solution," said Spencer Joyner, group president, software and systems integration at Harte-Hanks. "Trillium builds strong relationships with industry-leading companies and firms who know our products well and are as committed as we are to providing solutions that make our customers successful."

"Establishing and maintaining strategic partnerships is the goal of our Global Technology Alliance Initiative," said Len Dubois, Trillium's vice president of marketing. "Building relationships with the world's leading suppliers of e-business, CRM and data warehouse solutions ensures that the highest possible data quality is available to organizations whose customers reach across all touch points."

For more information about Trillium's Global Technology Alliance Initiative, please visit www.trilliumsoft.com/site/content/partners_program.asp.

About Trillium Software and Harte-Hanks

With more than 450 customers worldwide, Trillium Software provides businesses with a software solution that cleanses and standardizes global customer information in e-business, CRM and Internet applications. Recent sales of Trillium to a number of the world's largest and most technically advanced companies have positioned Trillium at the top of the data quality marketplace. Trillium is deployed globally in hundreds of mission-critical applications for customer identification. Trillium's technology enables global organizations to gain a unified view of customers, distributors and partners through real-time connectivity with their e-commerce pipeline. For more information regarding the Trillium Software System, call 978-436-8900 or visit the Trillium Software Web site at www.trilliumsoft.com.

Harte-Hanks Inc, San Antonio, TX, is a worldwide, direct and interactive services company that provides end-to-end customer relationship management (CRM) and related solutions to both consumers and business-to-business marketers. Harte-Hanks and its CRM integrated solutions use technology as the enabler to capture, to analyze and to disseminate customer and prospect data at all points of contact. Its customer-centric models allow the company to be the overall solutions provider for driving traffic to a Web site, call/contact center, or brick-and-mortar location. Visit the Harte-Hanks Web site at www.harte-hanks.com or call 800-456-9748.

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