Harte-Hanks Trillium Software Positioned as a Leader in 2010 Data Quality Tools Magic Quadrant


BILLERICA, MA--(Marketwire - June 29, 2010) -  Trillium Software®, a business of Harte-Hanks, Inc. (NYSE: HHS), and a leading enabler of Total Data Quality solutions, announced today that independent industry analyst firm Gartner, Inc. has positioned Trillium Software in the "leaders" quadrant of Gartner's influential Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools(1) research report. You can download a complimentary copy of the Magic Quadrant by clicking HERE

"Our focus within Trillium Software has always been about helping organizations succeed. Our market leading solution is designed to help businesses in all industries, with all types of data, create and maintain decision-ready information," said Len Dubois, senior vice president of marketing at Trillium Software. "Data quality is strategic to our customers, and we are the only vendor whose sole focus is to improve the quality of data within large enterprises. As a trusted partner for our customers, we provide deep knowledge and experience in how data impacts business processes and results. We provide a level of data quality expertise that challenges our competitors who treat data management as a commodity."

According to the Gartner research, "leaders" in the market demonstrate strength across a complete range of data quality functionality, including profiling, parsing, standardization, matching, validation and enrichment. They exhibit a clear understanding and vision for where the market is headed, including recognition of non-customer data quality issues and the 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).

Trillium Software partners with organizations to help deliver solutions and services that bring certainty to business and financial data. Organizations can be assured that customer, product and financial information is reliable and available to help manage and optimize their businesses processes. Recognized as a leader in Total Data Quality, Trillium Software provides solutions that empower and enable senior management, business analysts and data stewards to execute on every phase of data quality life cycle management. 

* Magic Quadrant Disclaimer
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2010 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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, 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 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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(1) Gartner, "Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools," Ted Friedman, Andreas Bitterer. June 2010.

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