Leading CDI solution provider, DWL, Releases DWL Customer™ 5.0
Version 5.0 Introduces Powerful Intelligent HubFunctionality
Atlanta, GA � May 19, 2004 – DWL, the leading provider of Customer Data Integration (CDI) solutions, today announced the release of DWL Customer” version 5.0. A market leading CDI solution that is based on a service-oriented architecture, DWL Customer™ is being used by some of the world’s largest companies to serve as their enterprise system of record for all customer-related information and transactions. The latest release of DWL Customer™, version 5.0, represents a significant step forward for CDI solutions with added functionality to enhance its ability to operate as an ‘active and intelligent’ operational system.
DWL Customer™ 5.0 introduces advanced event management functionality. The Event Manager is responsible for defining and detecting customer events. Specific actions may be taken once an event is detected, for example, sending specific notification messages and unique message content. This enables DWL Customer™ to operate as an intelligent operational system that communicates relevant events that may represent sales opportunities or important customer relationship events. Organizations are then able to respond to those events more quickly and capitalize on that operational intelligence in real-time.
DWL Customer™ 5.0 has also introduced advanced functionality in the area of managing the complete customer relationship profile. This release includes enhancements to grouping, which allows organizations to define customer groups and manage individual parties relationship to the group. Grouping enables organizations to improve customer services and sales processes based on more complete relationship information (e.g., service differentiation based on household relationships and overall household value, or campaigns based on customer groups). In addition, Version 5.0 introduces enhancements to hierarchy relationship management. This enables organizations to maintain full hierarchy relationships for parties, such as relationships between global headquarters, country headquarters and the various subsidiaries of the organization. Hierarchy management improves customer service processes by providing all channels and back office systems with a complete and detailed understanding of the organizational relationship.
Enhancements to the external data validation engine within DWL Customer™ 5.0 enable conditional data validation rules, as well as validation of code table values, which further enhances its ability to deliver intelligence within operational transactions. Version 5.0 also contains major enhancements around maintaining billing information for customers as well as enhanced campaign services to maintain campaign information for party groups. This enables organizations to operationalize campaign information to improve sales response rates.
DWL has enhanced its lead in the market place with the release of DWL Customer™ 5.0,said Bruce McPherson, vice president, product marketing and strategy, DWL. DWL consistently develops a market leading CDI product that delivers more than 300 pre-packaged business services for managing customer data in real-time. Customers will see even more business value by augmenting those operational customer services with additional intelligence around business rules and customer events.
DWL Customer™ 5.0 contains a web services interface for its business services, enabling DWL Customer™ to integrate with web services applications. DWL Customer™ web services interface has been integrated with a .NET application in the DWL R&D lab.
About DWL Customer”
DWL Customer™ is an enterprise customer hub that unifies customer data and transactions from product silos and delivers this knowledge to all channels. It is based on a ‘service-oriented architecture’ and built on J2EE standards, making it the most scalable and market-proven application for customer data integration. Additionally, DWL Customer™ can allow organizations to derive additional ROI from current CRM implementations and even failed CRM projects that lacked sufficient customer data management foundations or a customer hub during the time of implementation.
In benchmarking tests, DWL Customer™ produced average response times in the 120 milli-second range with over 100 million customer records in the database and transaction volumes of close to 600,000 transactions per hour. Unlike front and back office application customer information files (CIFs) that cannot meet demanding performance requirements, DWL Customer™ was designed to perform in the most demanding performance environments, making it the leading CDI solution for large organizations.
Pricing and Availability
DWL Customer” is currently available. Pricing varies according to the number of customers and product configuration.
About DWL Inc.
DWL is the leader in Enterprise Business Services software, an emerging class of service-oriented applications. DWL works with organizations worldwide to address enterprise-wide customer data integration (CDI) strategies using DWL Customer™, the leading enterprise customer data hub. DWL Customer™ gives organizations a unified view of their customer across multiple product and business silos. It delivers this single, real-time view and update environment to all channels, enabling multi-channel integration and consistent customer service.
Founded in 1996, DWL is headquartered in Atlanta and has offices in New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Toronto and London. Additionally, DWL has resellers in S�o Paulo and Kuala Lumpur. DWL clients include MetLife, J.P. Morgan Chase, Citi Cards, Atlantic Blue Cross Care, Great West Life, Empire Financial and Nationwide Insurance. DWL has strategic relationships with IBM, BEA Systems and Sun Microsystems. Key system integrator alliances include IBM Business Consulting Services and Accenture. DWL has been recognized by Deloitte & Touche as one of the fastest growing technology companies in North America for the past two years and by META Group as a leader in the customer data integration solution space.
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