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BOSTON, Mass. – June 21, 2005 – Noosh Inc., today
announced that their Noosh Direct Mail solution received a Crossroads
A-List Award from Open Systems Advisors (OSA). For 12 years, the
Crossroads A-List Awards have identified the best new technology
solutions proven to deliver results. This year, OSA concentrated
on evaluating solutions and services that addressed today's top
business priorities for technology investment, with a particular
focus on demonstrable results.
According to Nina Lytton, president and principal analyst of OSA,
"The solution Noosh has developed for managing Direct Mail projects
has successfully combined the three elements essential to mainstream
adoption: focusing on an important problem; providing a viable solution;
and, most importantly, delivering consistent business results for
early reference accounts."
Earning a Crossroads A-List Award positions the Noosh Direct Mail
solution as a leader. OSA has a unique and in-depth process of research
and validation. Drawing on in-depth interviews with line-of-business
and IT executives, the program identifies the newly proven solutions
and services that are making the strongest contribution to business
results for early customers right now. Interviews with these early
adopters are key in determining qualifications for success including
long-term strategic value, contribution to revenue growth, immediate
business return, user productivity, and deployability. All the winning
solutions have quick payback and material return on investment.
In 2005, only five companies were honored with the Crossroads A-List
Award.
According to Scott Gensler, Vice President of Marketing Operations
and Planning at Erickson, "Erickson sends over 24 million pieces
of direct mail each year and has found that as the complexity of
the solicitations increased so did the costs and the difficulty
in managing the project. Noosh has improved the visibility and control
of our direct mail projects, allowing us to deliver more versioned
mail by honing in on specific, narrowly defined cells (a target
demographic) and mailing specific versions to each – resulting
in better return rates for our marketing and sales programs and
reduced costs."
Noosh's Direct Mail solution allows companies to manage all the
elements of a multi-component direct mail project – from concept
to completion – in one place. Noosh streamlines version, print
specification and production control, tracks schedules and manages
services and component procurement -- eliminating the need to coordinate
information from disparate systems. Noosh keeps projects on schedule
and on budget and reduces the complexity of highly targeted direct
mail projects – resulting in significant improvements to business
critical marketing/sales programs and a reduction in costs by 15%
or more.
Full text of the Crossroads A-List Awards briefs can be accessed
at http://www.crossroads-osa.com.
About Open Systems Advisors
Open Systems Advisors, Inc. (OSA), founded in 1989, helps businesses
align their priorities with their technology investments, and identify
the best new technology solutions for today's business challenges.
OSA conducts the Crossroads A-List Research and Awards program on
an annual basis. The company provides strategic and marketing consulting
services for technology vendors, and Bizno-tech™ advisory
services for organizations looking to maximize the business value
of their technology investments. Principal analyst Nina Lytton has
spent 20 years analyzing major issues in applying technology to
business. She provides consultation regarding IT user and vendor
clients' most pressing issues in light of technical and market realities.
The company can be reached by sending email to info@crossroads-osa.com
About Noosh
Noosh delivers Technology Enabled Outsourced and software-as-a-service
Print Management Solutions that allow companies to leverage outsourced
or internally managed print procurement strategies to achieve significant
cost reductions and gain complete visibility and control of print
expenditures. Over 6,000 individuals representing nearly 700 different
organizations use Noosh Print Management solutions to manage more
than $150MM of print annually. Noosh customers include Genworth
Financial, Honeywell Consumer Products Group, Star Tribune Company
and many other leading enterprises. For more information, please
visit www.noosh.com.
Noosh is the trademark and service mark, respectively,
of Noosh, Inc. Other trademarks appearing in this release are the
property of their holders.
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