STAMFORD, Connecticut & AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 1999--

Leading Source For Mailing, Shipping And Addressing Supplies To

Help Businesses Buy Online

Pitney Bowes Inc., (NYSE:PBI) the world leader in mail and messaging technology, today announced a partnership with Trilogy Software, Inc., a leading provider of sales, marketing and electronic commerce solutions for the front office.

Together, the two companies will provide businesses of all sizes with an efficient, easy-to-use tool for buying Pitney Bowes' mailing, shipping and addressing supplies online. Using Trilogy's Buying Chain Software, an Intranet e-commerce application, companies can take full advantage of the efficiencies of online buying while automating approval routings and purchasing processes.

Using Trilogy's Buying Chain technology, customers can create and manage custom, pre-approved catalogs of supplies that employees can access right from their workstations. The software simplifies ordering and gives management control of these transactions. In addition, Pitney Bowes will offer their customers a ten percent price reduction on all orders taken through the site using Buying Chain software.

Pitney Bowes will also become a member of Trilogy's B-Commerce (Business Commerce) program, thereby bringing a new category of products and services to the Buying Chain community. This will better enable users to manage their mailing, shipping and addressing operations. Further, as a B-Commerce Partner, Pitney Bowes will be able to offer multi-vendor purchasing and reporting to all of its customers while at the same time providing them with the ability to automate and manage online purchasing from the Pitney Bowes web site.

"Being a part of the B-Commerce program is a fast, easy way for Pitney Bowes to tap into the growing Buying Chain community of web-enabled businesses - businesses that want to realize the advantages of e-commerce," said Russ Wilson, Vice President Business Operations and Supplies Marketing, Pitney Bowes Mailing Systems. "Many of our customers want to move their mailing and shipping supply purchases online, and Buying Chain will enable them to keep pace with the innovations and process efficiencies brought about by the Internet."

Hundreds of Product and Service Suppliers; Millions of products.

In addition to Pitney Bowes, there are more than 100 other online suppliers of products and services that are already members of the Buying Chain, B-Commerce program. These members include Office Depot, CompUSA, Beyond.com, RoweCom, TechBuyer resellers, and many more. These suppliers provide a wide variety of items, from computers, office supplies and knowledge resources to software and value-added services; and together these products and services make purchasing a lot more efficient for users of the B-Commerce program.

"Pitney Bowes has demonstrated a strong commitment to building its business-to-business e-commerce strategy to aggressively meet the needs of its customers," said Rob Lilleness, Vice President of the Trilogy Buying Chain business unit. "By linking up with the B-Commerce program, Pitney Bowes can now support the Internet purchasing requirements of companies of all sizes, who want to enjoy the benefits of controlled, online buying from the Pitney Bowes web site."

About Buying Chain B-Commerce program

The Buying Chain B-Commerce (Business Commerce) program offers online suppliers all of the necessary tools and marketing support needed to increase the efficiency of online buying for their corporate customers. The program is a simple way for suppliers to transfer customers to web-based buying, and it provides purchasing managers an automated mechanism for multi-vendor reporting.

About Buying Chain

Buying Chain is a broad market software solution that can be installed in minutes on a company's Intranet server, and it delivers a fast, easy way for every corporation to engage in electronic commerce. The software allows employees to buy through a browser on their desktops while enabling management to maintain approval routings and business rules. Using Buying Chain, companies simplify the buying process through controlled access to over 100 online suppliers. Companies can download Buying Chain for a free 30-day trial (visit the web site at www.buyingchain.com), and then they can start purchasing immediately from any of the Buying Chain suppliers.

About Trilogy Software, Inc

Trilogy Software, Inc., the largest private software company focused on the front office, is a leading provider of sales, marketing and business-to-business electronic commerce applications. More information on Trilogy can be found at www.trilogy.com.

About Pitney Bowes Inc.

Pitney Bowes Inc. is a $4.2 billion premier provider of informed mail and messaging management. For more information about the company, please visit our web site at www.pitneybowes.com

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Trilogy, Buying Chain and Buying Chain B-Commerce (Business Commerce) program are trademarks of Trilogy Software, Inc. All other trademarks and tradenames are the property of their respective owners.