Archive for the ‘Pitney Bowes’ Category
Volly Delayed
Pitney Bowes said last Wednesday that it’s signed 18 strategic alliance agreements with large third-party mailers for its sight-unseen Volly online bill-paying system. It described the large-volume mailers as representing over 1,800 brands that send out billions of mail pieces annually for the automotive, banking, brokerage, credit union, direct mail, financial services, government, health care, [...]
Pitney Goes to Rival for Volly President
Pitney Bowes has hired Chuck Cordray out of Hearst to be president of Volly, its yet-to-kick-off cloud-based online bill-paying venture, which is mildly interesting considering he’s going to be competing against Hearst’s own start-up bill-paying venture Manilla, which is being run by another of Hearst’s digital media executives George Kliavkoff, the first CEO of Hulu. [...]
Pitney Intros Cloud Postage
Pitney Bowes has lofted a cloud-based mailing and shipping service called pbSmartPostage that will let businesses print postage for letters and packages and run up shipping labels and tracking numbers from any PC with an Internet connection. No software downloads. No IT involvement. The company says businesses with smallish shipping volumes and remote locations will [...]
Pitney & Bug Labs Create Secure Mobile Device Development Platform
Pitney Bowes disclosed last week that it’s been working for over a year with the open source company Bug Labs on a product Bug Labs calls BUGsecure that includes Pitney’s special tamper-proof security chip. Combined with Pitney’s’s enterprise-class management services the widgetry is meant to be a modular new high-security platform used to prototype, pilot [...]
Pitney To Turn E-Bill Consolidator
Pitney Bowes is going into the e-bill consolidation business, claiming it will “replicate the role played by mail in a consumer’s life.” It will start peddling a cloud-based digital mail communications platform called Volly in the United States in the second half of 2011. It could also try to take the scheme international. It describes [...]
PBBI Cuts Global Reseller Deal with ClickSoftware
Pitney Bowes Business Insight (PBBI), the unit that supplies location and communication intelligence solutions, will be reselling ClickSoftware’s workforce optimization integrated with its CDQ and CCM widgetry. It’s supposed to create a better, cheaper solution for mid-sized companies. PBBI will resell ClickSoftware’s Installation, Maintenance and Repair Services (ClickIMRS), a pre-configured order management, scheduling and reporting [...]