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Neopost France OEMs Esker’s Hybrid Mail Solution
Under a strategic OEM agreement, Neopost France, a subsidiary of the Neopost Group, is using Esker technology and infrastructure to launch its own hybrid on-demand mail service. Apparently the widgetry will be called Neotouch. Neopost France wants its customers to be able to download mail such as invoices, customer communications and reminder letters from their [...]
RPost Goes Cloud
RPost, the Registered Email outfit, has gone into the cloud business, calling its new widgetry the “new global standard for legal electronic messaging.” The RPost Cloud, for that is its name, is targeted at postal services, software applications, service providers, developers, IT departments and John Q public. The platform will let any of these users, [...]
E-Postbrief Piggybacks on Europe’s Largest Corporate Network
SAP said Thursday that it’s integrating E-Postbrief, Deutsche Post’s widgetry for binding, confidential, identity-insured electronic communications, into its business platform using SAP Information Interchange by Crossgate. Officially an SAP Solution Extension, SAP Information Interchange by Crossgate is a so-called B2B Content Engine that lets companies exchange electronic purchase orders, forecasts, invoices, delivery alerts and other [...]
Melissa Leverages the Cloud
Melissa Data Corporation, developer of high-performance data quality and address management solutions, says its Address Check Web Service is now available on Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket for Microsoft’s Data Quality Services (or any client that embeds the API). DataMarket, which was code named Dallas when it was still a project, is Microsoft’s online data store [...]
Italian Post Expected To Seek Damages from IBM for Blackout
It’s still not clear what brought the Italian Post Office to its knees for days starting June 1, had Poste Italiane CEO Massimo Sarmi up all night on the phone with IBM senior VP for technology services Erich Clementi, and made both IBM and HP, which built the post’s apparently dodgy software, fly in teams [...]
NZ Post Uses Open Source under Web Site
The New Zealand Post has re-launched its web site, setting up a brand new so-called Stamps 2.0 web store to sell stamps, coins and commemorative art to customers and enthusiasts. The store is said to have an innovative interface so collectors can customize their stamps and postage in real-time. The widgetry is a joint development [...]
Localist a New Service Category?
New Zealand Post’s nascent, largely online Localist directory service, originally targeted at the Yellow Pages, is now supposed to include local news content. The rollout, which could go national and is likely to meet competition from Google and Facebook, is supposed to start in Auckland in June. The venture is hiring 100 locally wired residents [...]
Post Norden Morphs into PostNord
Post Norden, the two-year-old combination of Swedish and Danish posts, has changed its name to PostNord AB and says that it will partner and make acquisitions to grow and protect its franchise. At the same time it needs to have tight cost controls. It wants to be the leading player in Scandinavia. It will pay [...]
Accenture Wades into Digital Postal Mail
Accenture, the big $22 billion-a-year consulting and outsourcing firm, waded into the digital postal market last week, saying it can “enable postal agencies worldwide to offer digital mail – a digital version of printed mail securely delivered to an online mailbox – to their customers to recapture lost revenue from a steady decline in mail [...]
Denmark To Add Mobile Postage
Starting April 1 Danes will be able to text a Post Danmark 1-900 number from their mobile phones, pay the cost of first-class postage and get a unique alphanumeric code back that they will write then on their standard-size mail. Initially the service is limited to Denmark-bound letters of up to 50 grams and the [...]