Trillium Software Cited as a Leader in Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools 2014

BILLERICA, MA--(Marketwired - Dec 16, 2014) - Trillium Software®, A Harte Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS) and a leading global provider of data quality solutions, today announced that it has once again been positioned as a data quality leader by independent analyst firm Gartner in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools for 2014 research report.¹ Since this report's inception in 2007, Trillium Software has been recognized as one of the industry leaders in Data Quality tools by Gartner. Access the report by clicking HERE.

"Business professionals face unprecedented time-to-value pressures, regulatory and competitive challenges," said Phil Galati, chief executive officer at Trillium Software. "They have to make data-driven business decisions quickly as part of a self-service approach, and they need flexible data quality solutions that can be implemented rapidly. Unlike many of our competitors, Trillium Software possesses a long and solid track record of success and sole focus in the data quality market, and can be implemented within 30 days to help clients achieve the highest level of data assurance in the shortest amount of time."

"Leaders demonstrate strength across a full range of data quality functions, including profiling, parsing, standardization, matching, validation and enrichment. They exhibit a clear understanding and vision of where the market is headed, including recognition of multidomain data quality issues and delivery of enterprise-level data quality implementations. Leaders have an established market presence, significant size and a multinational presence (directly or as a result of a parent company)."

According to the research, "the data quality tools market continues to grow strongly. Gartner estimates that it reached $1.13 billion in software revenue at the end of 2013. This translates into 13.2% growth in constant-dollar terms over 2012, which had brought 9.9% growth over 2011. Gartner forecasts that this market's growth will accelerate during the next few years, to almost 16% by 2017, bringing the total to $2 billion. This market is among the fastest-growing in the enterprise software sector."

Mr. Galati continues by saying, "Our customers tell us there is increasing demand to show rapid return on investments made in Big Data automation, Cloud Computing, CRM, MDM and business analytics. Couple this with the pressure to quickly respond to market opportunities or compliance requirements in a cost-effective way, and you have an environment where business professionals are seeking out data quality leadership in order to solve very real data challenges quickly. Based on our expertise and focus, we guarantee business value and data quality project success with proven best practices and leadership because we completely understand -- and know how to address -- all our customer's data challenges."

¹ Gartner, "Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools," Saul Judah, Ted Friedman, November 26, 2014.

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About Trillium Software
Trillium Software, A Harte Hanks Company, is a leading, global enterprise data quality solutions provider. Our data quality specialists help organizations achieve increased business from their data management initiatives and existing business-critical processes by providing enterprise data profiling and data cleansing software and services. Trillium offers industry-specific business solutions that help solve data problems experienced by financial services, banking, compliance, insurance, risk, and retail professionals. Trillium's full complement of technologies and services includes global data profiling, data cleansing, enrichment, and data linking for e-business, customer relationship management, data governance, 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, in the United Kingdom call +44 (0) 118 940 7666, and +49 7031 714756 in Central Europe, or visit Trillium Software online at http://www.trilliumsoftware.com.

About Harte Hanks
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