Harte-Hanks Trillium Software Announces New Strategic Data Governance Consulting Services

2 juni 2009 New Services Combine Years of Proven Data Management Experience to Help Customers Maximize Business Value From Any Stage of Their Data Governance Initiative BILLERICA, MA--(Marketwire - June 02, 2009) - Trillium Software®, a business of Harte-Hanks, Inc. (NYSE: HHS) and a leading enabler of Total Data Quality solutions, today announced a new set of strategic business consulting services aimed at cost-effectively helping organizations plan, implement and maintain critical data governance initiatives. In light of an international movement toward increased levels of business process oversight and regulation, organizations recognize that enterprise data governance can help create needed transparency into company operations and data -- generating increased business value from customer service, risk and compliance programs, and data management. Through a series of collaborative consulting engagements and a nimble building-block implementation methodology, Trillium Consulting(TM) can enable companies to design and build a custom-fit program for governance that effectively delivers business value while sustaining ongoing data governance year-over-year. "With all the complexity, sheer volume, and constantly-changing nature of today's business data, large organizations face incredibly difficult challenges in ensuring that their data stays relevant and valuable to all parts of the business -- or risk losing money, time and growth opportunities," said Bernard LeCuyer, senior vice president of global services at Trillium Software. "Unlike other consultants whose expertise is limited to technology, our team takes a time-tested strategic business approach to helping our customers achieve their complex data governance goals." Trillium Consulting representatives move beyond technology solutions to show customers exactly how to plan for -- and what they can expect from -- their data governance initiatives in terms of value, business benefits and potential cost-savings. Based on their deep knowledge of customers' industries and data management needs, these highly-experienced consultants help: -- Plan a packaged, modular, cost-effective ten-step implementation approach that best fits customer needs; -- Perform detailed value assessments to secure executive buy-in and enable clients to quickly execute on plans and goals; -- Conduct onsite collaborative engagements and assign roles or responsibilities to create a structure that advocates a small administrative footprint and promotes more effective organizational alignment; -- Draw up plans that serve as the foundation for overarching data governance processes and a Center of Excellence that is scalable and sustainable over the long term, and; -- Fine-tune solutions to ensure customers maximize the benefits of data governance and technology. These data governance business services complement Trillium Consulting's existing set of educational and technical services which aim to help customers more efficiently evaluate and plan for their data management challenges and deployments prior to any technology implementation. By relying on Trillium Consulting's years of business and data quality consulting expertise, organizations can potentially maximize the return on investment of their data quality management initiatives and ultimately achieve their data governance and MDM goals more quickly and effectively. For more information about Trillium Consulting data governance consulting services, contact James Orr at james_orr@trilliumsoftware.com or call (719) 481-0565. About Harte-Hanks Harte-Hanks® is a worldwide direct and targeted marketing company that provides direct marketing services and shopper advertising opportunities to local, regional, national and international consumer and business-to-business marketers. Visit the Harte-Hanks Web site at http://www.harte-hanks.com or call (800) 456-9748. Harte-Hanks Trillium Software enables organizations to achieve Total Data Quality by providing a full complement of technologies and services providing global data profiling, data cleansing, enhancement, and data linking for e-business, customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, data warehouse, and other enterprise applications. For more information about Trillium Software and its offerings, call (978) 436-8900 in the United States and in the United Kingdom call +44 (0) 118 940 7666, or visit Trillium Software online at http://www.trilliumsoftware.com. This document may contain trademarks that are owned or licensed by Harte-Hanks, Inc. and its subsidiaries, including, without limitation, Harte-Hanks, Trillium Software, the Trillium Software System, Trillium Consulting, and other names and marks. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders. Media Contact: Michael Antonellis Harte-Hanks Trillium Software (978) 439-3813 michael_antonellis@trilliumsoftware.com United Kingdom Derek Harris +44 (0) 1395 516 613 derek@harriscomms.com This announcement was originally distributed by Hugin. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.