Pitney Bowes Selects Aria Systems for Billing on the New Commerce Cloud

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Aug 23, 2016) - Aria Systems, which helps enterprises grow subscription and usage-based revenue, today announced that Pitney Bowes has selected Aria's cloud-based monetization platform as the key billing and monetization component of their new Commerce Cloud Platform. The Commerce Cloud enables speed and agility across the full commerce continuum, ranging from digital to physical, including: shipping and mailing, customer information management, location intelligence, customer engagement, and global commerce. For more information, read the full Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud case study.

With the Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud, businesses of all sizes can now securely access -- either through PCs, mobile devices, connected metering devices, or via APIs -- a full range of shipping, mailing, ecommerce, location intelligence, customer information management, customer engagement, and payment solutions.

Aria's cloud billing and monetization platform enables Pitney Bowes to quickly update Commerce Cloud solutions and provide frictionless billing for those offerings to meet the rapidly changing demands of today's businesses. In head-to-head tests against a competitor, Aria demonstrated that it could accelerate the go-to-market timing of new products by a phenomenal 700%. What was once a 14-month delivery process was effectively shrunk to just a few weeks.

Enterprises like Pitney Bowes rely on Aria's cloud-based monetization platform to take billing and monetization management out of the traditionally lengthy IT queue, and place it in the hands of the business owner. The Line of Business can then make changes in days, instead of months or even years, to quickly cater to customer demands for new connected service offerings with superior flexibility. For Pitney Bowes, this means the Line of Business can launch new offerings and services in a fraction of the time, without tying up internal IT resources.

"Aria Systems is an industry leader with an enterprise-grade solution that helps Pitney Bowes continue its 96-year tradition of delivering business innovation in a timely and scalable manner," says Joe Schmitt, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Pitney Bowes. "With Aria, we can quickly launch, change, and add Commerce Cloud services to rapidly meet evolving demand. This flexibility helps us provide the continued innovation clients have come to expect from Pitney Bowes."

"Aria is proud to partner with Pitney Bowes as it reinvents itself with its Commerce Cloud. Ultimately, this unlocks vast potential for our customer, via their digital commerce, shipping, mailing, and payment capabilities," says Tom Dibble, President & CEO, Aria Systems. "Our cloud-based monetization platform facilitates instant information and quicker service-increasing their end-customer satisfaction and retention."

About Pitney Bowes

Pitney Bowes (NYSE: PBI) is a global technology company powering billions of transactions - physical and digital - in the connected and borderless world of commerce. Clients around the world, including 90 percent of the Fortune 500, rely on products, solutions and services from Pitney Bowes in the areas of customer information management, location intelligence, customer engagement, shipping, mailing, and global ecommerce. And, with the innovative Pitney Bowes Commerce Cloud, clients can access the broad range of Pitney Bowes solutions, analytics, and APIs to drive commerce. For additional information visit Pitney Bowes, the Craftsmen of Commerce, at www.pitneybowes.com. 

About Aria Systems

Aria Systems' cloud-based monetization platform is the consensus analyst choice, top ranked by leading research firms. Innovative enterprises like Adobe, Philips, and Zipcar depend on Aria to accelerate time to market and increase flexibility, enabling them to maximize customer value and grow recurring revenue through subscription and usage-based offerings. For more information, visit www.ariasystems.com.

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