Mailer's Choice Expands Market Opportunities, Lowers Operating Costs with Pervasive Software Data Integration Solutions
October 07, 2005 • Austin, TX

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Direct Mail Company Expands Capabilities and Product Offerings by Utilizing Pervasive Tools to Handle Unstructured Data and Remove Duplicates

Pervasive Software(R) Inc. (Nasdaq: PVSW), a global value leader in data infrastructure software, today announced that Mailer's Choice has selected Pervasive Data Integrator Pro and Data Profiler to enhance its current product offering. Mailer's Choice can now help its customers quickly transform hundreds of legacy data types, including unstructured data sources, into a common structured format for improved data management and data quality. While the Data Integrator Integration Architect manages the transformation process, the automation provided by Data Profiler eliminates data redundancy and duplication associated with manual processing. The comprehensive Pervasive solution is expected to translate into increased opportunities and market share for Mailer's Choice, and the reusable, easy-to-use components are projected to help reduce operating costs, which in turn will help reduce customers' costs.

Based in Nashville, Tennessee, Mailer's Choice helps customers meet their direct mail, fulfillment and customized laser printing needs, and it receives hundreds of thousands of customer data records per week. Converting unstructured data within these records was a task Mailer's Choice completed manually, which was often time-consuming. With Pervasive Software, Mailer's Choice can now manage unstructured data while automating processes for billing, preparing monthly statements and tracking historical data. These enhancements will significantly increase the types and number of records it can process while reducing time commitment and costly duplication errors.

"For a single customer, we could have thousands of invoices, credit memos and statements, all from differing data sources and targets, that needed to be moved into a structured database," said Gary McCullough, senior data analyst at Mailer's Choice. "Pervasive provides native connectors that allow me to rapidly extract and cleanse data from any file format and without the risks and time inherent with manual processing. We can automate up to 40,000 additional records per month and our customers get cleaner data faster, helping both of us become more profitable." Mailer's Choice leverages Pervasive Map Designer for its drag-and-drop graphical user interface and the ability to interactively test and debug transformation rules. The Extract Schema Designer also allows Mailer's Choice to save and reuse record layouts. "Pervasive offered me the power I wanted and gave me the ability to make the software work for me," McCullough said. "Pervasive has all of the features I needed and some unexpected components that will help us automate more processes in the future for greater efficiencies."

Data Integrator has also enabled Mailer's Choice to create a better record tracking and entry-control system for its clients. It has also resulted in new form development, the ability to use group posting to create one record to better track hundreds of item records, and an increase in records throughput. The less costly alternative to presorting data also gives its clients greater record flexibility and a better view of purchase histories for more targeted marketing campaigns and increased customer satisfaction.

"The conversion of unstructured data is a huge problem for companies like Mailer's Choice," said Chip Harmon, general manager, Integration Products at Pervasive Software. "Pervasive has developed a complete, lightweight, and easy-to-use solution, including software and services, that allows our customers to apply our two decades of experience to increase value to their customers and ultimately drive costs down."

Combining deep knowledge and over 20 years of data management expertise, Pervasive provides easy-to-use, cost-effective software, services, training and partner programs. These programs help ISVs, ASPs and systems integrators focus on creating value by leveraging their own core competencies and domain expertise in business applications, while leaving the data management, migration and integration challenges to Pervasive. The foundation of these partner services is a flexible business model for partners to OEM, resell or co-market Pervasive technology for a comprehensive customer solution with low total cost of ownership. For more information, visit http://www.pervasive.com/solutions/isv.