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Pitney Bowes Selects Aria Systems for Enterprise-Class Subscription Billing Platform

^{Published on 2011-06-07 16:40:27 - Market Wire}
 

SAN MATEO, Calif.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Aria Systems ([ www.AriaSystems.com ]), the leading provider of [ subscription billing ]and[ subscription management ]solutions, today announced that [ Pitney Bowes ] (NYSE:PBI) has deployed Aria Platform Enterprise Edition to automate recurring revenues for a new initiative targeting global small and mid-sized businesses. Pitney Bowes selected Aria Systems for its ability to power a rapid global rollout, along with its flexibility to support the widest range of current and future monetization models.

"Ariaa™s platform allowed the fastest time-to-market and expedited global deployment with the monetization flexibility that we need now and for the future."

Pitney Bowes, a provider of software, hardware and services that integrate physical and digital communications channels, is increasingly helping other companies grow their business through advanced customer communications management. The company identified an opportunity to open up a new market segment by offering subscription-based customer communications tools to small and mid-sized businesses in multiple countries around the globe. The team wanted to quickly deliver an initial rollout while ensuring go-forward flexibility to evolve pricing and packaging as customer needs and market dynamics change over time. In order to do so, the billing system needed to integrate tightly with other enterprise applications including SAP, Taxware and Vertex.

To find a solution that could meet these needs, Pitney Bowes evaluated numerous cloud-based billing systems and ultimately chose Aria Systems. Ariaa™s cloud-based delivery model provides a speedy way to bring multiple countries online via one centralized system that supports multiple geographies, languages and currencies. Aria is a great fit for Pitney Bowesa"it offers the fastest time-to-market, greatest flexibility and an unmatched level of experience with global deployments.

aWe felt strongly that Ariaa™s enterprise-class cloud billing platform could support a business of our scale,a said Brad Dudas, vice president of product management pbsmartconnections.com at Pitney Bowes. aAriaa™s platform allowed the fastest time-to-market and expedited global deployment with the monetization flexibility that we need now and for the future.a

aTo succeed with new recurring revenue initiatives, global enterprises require the rapid deployment and agility typified by cloud-based subscription billing solutions,a said Mike Morini, CEO at Aria Systems. aAria Systems is uniquely positioned to serve customers like Pitney Bowes because of our extensive global deployment expertise and international-ready subscription billing and management platform.a

About Aria Systems

Aria Systems is the [ subscription billing ] and management market leader serving Global 2000 companies. The Aria Subscription Billing Platform is the industrya™s only enterprise-class solution that automates the entire subscriber life cycle for all recurring revenue models. Disney, Pitney Bowes, Ingersoll Rand, DreamWorks, EMC, Internap, Roku, VMware, Taleo, and Hootsuite all rely on Aria for fast time-to-market, low operational costs, and monetization flexibility. [ www.ariasystems.com ]