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Comergent Helps Pitney Bowes Deliver Postage with Images On Demand.


REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif. -- Comergent Technologies(R), Inc., the leading provider of enterprise eBusiness solutions, is powering Pitney Bowes This article or section is written like an .
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 new Stamp Expressions(TM) Printer to enable users to purchase and print postage with unique images on demand.

With the new eBusiness offering, customers can create postage of variable denominations and add either Pitney Bowes approved personal images or select images from an extensive Web-based library of nearly 200 different designs. Categories include special occasions, general business, and industry-specific messages. The postage and images are then downloaded to the Pitney Bowes Stamp Expressions(TM) Printer, which can be used either in online or offline mode, allowing users to print postage on demand wherever there's an electrical outlet.

The Stamp Expressions(TM) Printer can be purchased online at www.pb.com/stampexpressions, and supplies, images, postage and optional 5 lb. scale are available directly through the Comergent-powered application. "Our new service is all about giving people what they want, exactly how they want it," said Ian Siveyer, Vice President of Small Business, Postal and Retail Solutions for Pitney Bowes. "It was important for the service's underlying engine to provide a user-friendly experience for our customers and also handle the technical challenges of integration, scalability and security behind the scenes. Comergent's solution met those needs."

The Comergent eBusiness System(TM) manages orders, purchases and payment, including the Stamp Expressions(TM) Printer subscription-based credit-card billing service that allows users to buy various plans based on their projected usage.

"Pitney Bowes is among many companies today who are turning to Comergent to help them implement new 'Business to Everyone' targeted offerings that combine the best of B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G.

B2B - business to business
 and B2C (Business to Consumer) Refers to a business communicating with or selling to an individual rather than a company. See B2B.  to make it easy for their customers to do business with them," said Jean Kovacs, Comergent President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "We are excited that the new Pitney Bowes Stamp Expressions(TM) Printer, which represents this new type of personal and compelling B2E B2E Business to Employee
B2E Business to Enterprise
 solution, is powered by Comergent."

About Pitney Bowes:

Pitney Bowes provides the world's most comprehensive suite of mailstream software, hardware, services and solutions to help companies manage their flow of mail, documents and packages to improve communication. Pitney Bowes, with $5.5 billion in annual revenue, takes an all-inclusive view of its customers' operations, helping organizations of all sizes enjoy the competitive advantage that comes from an optimized mailstream. The company's 86 years of technological leadership have produced many major mailstream innovations, and it is consistently on the Intellectual Property Owners Association's list of top U.S. patent holders. With approximately 34,000 employees worldwide, Pitney Bowes serves more than 2 million businesses through direct and dealer operations. More information about the company can be found at www.pb.com.

About Comergent

Comergent is the leading provider of eBusiness solutions for the extended enterprise. The Comergent eBusiness System orchestrates complex product, selling, and order management processes across multiple enterprise systems, business organizations, and sales channels. Comergent's customers are able to increase revenues while reducing the cost of sales by making it fast and easy for their customers to do business with them. Customers include industry leaders such as Applied Biosystems, Best Buy, Cisco Systems, Gates Corporation, InterContinental Hotels Group InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) (LSE: IHG NYSE: IHG) is a multinational company which operates several hotel brands. The largest hotel company by number of rooms (556,000 as of March 2007 [1]), its headquarters are in Windsor just outside Greater London and , J. C. Penney This article is about the department store chain. For its founder, see James Cash Penney. For the Irish retail chain branded Penney's, see Primark.
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, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98).

NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd.
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 Company and World Wide Technology. Comergent is privately held with headquarters in Redwood City, Calif.

For more information, visit www.comergent.com.
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