Harte-Hanks Trillium Software Executives to Speak at MIT 2009 Information Quality Industry Symposium

Trillium Software to Present Examples of Using Scorecards to Showcase Data Quality Value at Growing Massachusetts Institute of Technology Information Quality Event


BILLERICA, MA--(Marketwire - July 10, 2009) - Trillium Software, a business of Harte-Hanks, Inc. (NYSE: HHS) and a leading enabler of Total Data Quality solutions, today announced Trillium Software executives Nelson Ruiz and Steven Sarsfield will speak at the annual Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2009 Information Quality Industry Symposium (MIT2009IQIS), July 15-17, 2009. Mr. Ruiz and Mr. Sarsfield will offer a presentation titled "Using Data Quality Scorecards to Sell IQ Value." Mr. Sarsfield is a publicity co-chairman for the MIT2009IQIS and Trillium Software is sponsoring the event.

"Organizations realize that by improving the quality of information data across their enterprises, companies can achieve very significant cost savings while creating powerful new revenue opportunities," said Dr. WooYoung Chung, General Symposium co-chair of MIT2009IQIS. "In challenging economic times, any improvements in business processes to generate revenue and save costs are critical, and we're offering strong expertise, knowledge and know-how for our attendees in the information quality industry."

The mission of this influential MIT-led non-profit program is to help organizations improve their ability to capture and harness the power of information to realize real business benefits. The organization is composed of thought-leaders in the data and information quality industry who offer programs and initiatives to equip companies with knowledge and tools to improve information quality.

About MIT IQIS

MIT IQIS is an initiative of the MIT Information Quality Program, which is based at MIT's Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development (CTPID). It is an annual Symposium, held in mid-July every year at the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Helping organizations capture and harness the immense potential power of information is its central means to this end. The Symposium actively facilitates the vibrant exchange of ideas among practitioners and academicians, in order to build a collaborative community of practice held together by a strong common belief that discovering the true power of information is the key to dramatically increasing the productivity of people, organizations, and economies. Visit the MIT Information Quality Program Web site at http://mitiq.mit.edu/.

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.

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