DANBURY,
CT (January 12, 2000) -- The Production
Mail and Document Factory Solutions Division of
Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI) today announced that
an exclusive report on the Pitney Bowes Internet
billing solution will be webcast by Killen &
Associates, a leading e-commerce advisory firm.
The
report will be available beginning Wednesday, January
12th, and will feature an interview with Karl Schumacher,
Vice President and General Manager for Pitney Bowes'
Document Factory Solutions and the chief architect
of the Pitney Bowes Internet billing strategy. The
webcast will be available at www.killen.com.
"Killen
& Associates has quickly developed a deep understanding
of the intricacies of various bill presentment and
payment strategies," says Karl Schumacher, "and
is proving to be of great assistance to billers
searching for flexible and effective solutions."
"We
expect Pitney Bowes to be a significant player in
all phases of Internet billing in both the near
and long term due to their strength in technology
and their current involvement in the hard copy billing
processes of major high-volume mailers worldwide,"
says Michael Killen, Founder and Chairman of Killen
& Associates.
Pitney
Bowes' hardware and software solutions currently
assist the world's leading 2000 business enterprises
with processing high-volume, high-integrity customer-based
communications via hard copy mail, and feature critical
valued-added capabilities such as intelligent inserting
and print stream manipulation.
The
Pitney Bowes Internet billing solution, which is
encompassed by the firm's new Digital Document DeliveryTM
(D3) capability, offers high-volume mailers "a natural
extension of their current billing processes and
a biller-friendly approach," says Killen.
The
webcast by Killen & Associates continues an
effort by Pitney Bowes "to utilize all knowledge-based
communications channels to present the firm's Electronic
Bill Presentment and Payment (EBPP) capabilities
to the marketplace," says Schumacher.
With
offices in Palo Alto (CA), London, and Zurich, Killen
& Associates is the global leader in tracking
and forecasting business opportunities created by
the advances of the Internet. For more information,
visit www.killen.com.
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