StreamServe Sustainability Program Helps Businesses Become Green and Achieve Greater ROI through Automated Business Communications

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Tue May 19, 2009 8:58am EDT

New program bases eco-savings on StreamServe`s proven ability to help businesses
save resources, reduce costs and improve their overall brand among customers and
prospects 
BURLINGTON, Mass.--(Business Wire)--
StreamServe, Inc., a leading provider of business communication solutions, today
unveiled the StreamServe Sustainability Program, which helps businesses become
more cost-efficient while aiding them in achieving their goals of becoming less
reliant on our planet`s resources. 

Since its founding in 1997, StreamServe has provided businesses in the financial
services, utility and supply chain sectors with business communication solutions
that meet the demanding challenges for producing and delivering highly
customized documents in any format. By leveraging existing ERP, CRM and content
management infrastructure that already exists within the enterprise, StreamServe
offers businesses an easy way to improve customer and business communications
through the delivery of highly-personalized documents and invoices in either
paper or electronic format. 

Based upon years of collected results from StreamServe`s customers and through
consultation with industry analysts and experts focused on green IT, we have
established benchmarks which help businesses achieve financial as well as
sustainable returns. The StreamServe Sustainability Program offers a series of
research, best practices, and tools designed to help businesses determine the
eco-savings that can be achieved through StreamServe`s business communication
solutions. 

"StreamServe`s Sustainability Program adds a new layer to our company`s existing
solutions by assisting businesses realize the full eco-impact that these
solutions can provide," said Dennis Ladd, president and CEO, StreamServe. "By
significantly reducing resources, such as paper, ink and electricity -
StreamServe`s solutions are enabling businesses to improve their sustainability
and become more attractive to their business prospects and customers. By
reducing resources and leveraging existing IT infrastructure, businesses are
also realizing the quick return on investment that can be achieved through
StreamServe`s solutions." 

For businesses, the StreamServe Sustainability Program achieves eco-goals while
lowering costs and improving efficiencies (and thus profit); reduces carbon,
toxins and fossil fuels needed for production; and raises public awareness to
their environmental activities. For the customers of these businesses, the
StreamServe Sustainability Program demonstrates the clear cost-savings of
receiving statements electronically versus on paper; lets them select how they
wish to receive business communications (i.e., email, text, web portal); and
offers messages for how they too can reduce their impact on the environment. 

"The cost-savings that can be achieved through StreamServe`s solutions are
impressive," said Mike Balin, StreamServe`s senior director of Strategic
Marketing and Sustainability Initiatives. "For example, we calculated that if a
utility company with a total of five million customers and a monthly billing
cycle delivers 15% of its total annual invoices from paper to electronic, it
would represent a net savings of 70 million sheets of paper not printed each
year. This corresponds to a savings of 802 metric tons of carbon production,
which is the CO2 equivalent of 7,332 trees, 147 passenger vehicles, 91 thousand
gallons of gasoline, 2.6 million kilowatt hours, or the annual electricity use
for 106 homes." 

While initially focused on the utilities market, StreamServe`s Sustainability
Program will eventually expand to demonstrate the cost-savings that can be
achieved in other markets, including financial services and supply chain (i.e.,
manufacturing and distribution). 

"Organizations today increasingly want to become more efficient, cost-effective
and sustainable by shrinking paper footprints in favor of digital processes,"
said Tom Raftery, sustainability analyst at RedMonk. "Few vendors have the paper
reduction capability and potential of StreamServe because of its clear focus on
sustainable billing and invoicing." 

To learn more about the StreamServe Sustainability Program please see:
http://www.streamserve.com/sustainability. 

About StreamServe

StreamServe is a leading provider of Enterprise Document Presentment solutions
that set the standard for business communications. Simple to deploy and
maintain, the company`s dynamic composition, document process automation and
enterprise output management solutions meet the demanding challenges of today`s
global businesses for producing and delivering highly customized documents in
any format. 

StreamServe`s advanced software solutions ease the process of composing and
automating business communications, enabling organizations to increase the value
and profitability of their business relationships. This is done all while
leveraging existing business applications such as ERP, CRM and ECM. 

The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Burlington, Mass., with
14 offices worldwide. StreamServe serves more than 5,000 customers in 130
countries, primarily in the financial services, utilities, manufacturing,
distribution and telecom sectors. Customers include BMW, CLP Power Hong Kong,
AmeriSource Bergen, and Siemens Financial. StreamServe`s strategic partners
include Adobe Systems, IBM, InfoPrint Solutions Company, Lawson, and SAP. 

To learn more about how StreamServe`s EDP solutions can improve the
effectiveness of your organization`s communications, please visit us online at
http://www.streamserve.com. 

StreamServe, the StreamServe logo, StreamServe EDP, and "Bringing Documents to
Life" are all trademarks of StreamServe Inc. Some software products marketed by
StreamServe Inc. and its distributors contain proprietary software components of
other software vendors. Other marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of
their respective holders. ©StreamServe Inc. 2009



StreamServe Corporate
Peter Gorman, 781-761-6659
Mobile: 617-669-4329
Email: peter.gorman@streamserve.com
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