Harte-Hanks Trillium Software Customer Wales & West Utilities to Present at Smart Utility Summit

Wales & West Utilities Manager Martin Malin to Illustrate the Business Importance of Strong Data Quality to Successful Asset Management and Regulatory Compliance


READING, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwire - Jun 22, 2011) - Trillium Software®, a business of Harte-Hanks, Inc. (NYSE: HHS) and a leading enabler of Total Data Quality solutions, today announced that Martin Malin, business applications manager at its customer Wales & West Utilities (WWU), will present at The Smart Utility Summit 2011.

The annual event has become the place to keep up to date with the latest developments in smart utility technology and runs from 28th to 29th June at Chelsea Football Club, London.

Mr. Malin will present the topic "Meeting the Data Quality Challenges in Gas Distribution." Using WWU as a case study, he will look at the critical importance of data quality to the utility in its asset management and regulatory compliance activities, explore how and why its data quality solutions were selected and chart how the business has benefited to date.

"We have some 11 million records covering many thousands of assets such as gas pipes, pumps, valves and meters," said Malin. "It is vital that the information upon which we operate our business, and which we report to the regulator, is accurate and indeed proven to be accurate."

Trillium Software is a sponsor of the event and exhibitor. Trillium Software provides enterprise data quality software and services to ensure that accurate, consistent, and complete information is available to drive higher productivity, decrease costs, increase revenues and meet regulatory compliance initiatives. Trillium Software's suite of technologies and services provide data profiling, data quality, information enrichment that enable data governance for single customer views, regulatory compliance, asset management, customer relationship management, data warehouse, business intelligence and critical business applications.

For more information and to register, visit http://www.smartutilityevent.com

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About Trillium Software
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, data governance, 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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