Harte-Hanks Trillium Software Selects Rural Sourcing for Software Development and Support


Innovation and Accelerated Release Cycles require Expertise, Collaboration and Rapid Response for Development Teams.


Atlanta, GA - November 16, 2009


Rural Sourcing, Inc. (RSI) today announced that it has signed an agreement to work with Trillium Software, a business of Harte-Hanks, Inc. (NYSE:HHS) and a leading enabler of Total Data Quality solutions, to support Trillium Software's accelerated pace of development for its data quality software solutions.

After reviewing several alternatives for its technology support needs, including offshore and near shore firms, Trillium Software chose Rural Sourcing, Inc. Given Trillium Software's need for real-time collaboration, quicker product turnarounds, and overall cost competitiveness, RSI proved to be the best possible solution. "We are excited about how Rural Sourcing’s new cost-competitive, on-shore product development approach is working for us and our data quality product development teams," said John Nicoli, managing director at Trillium Software. "There are quite a number of business advantages to utilizing an on-shore team and we are happy with the response time, product turnarounds and support we've received from Rural Sourcing."

"We are privileged to work with such an innovative leader in the software industry who is willing to look holistically at the value proposition of domestic sourcing. Through this relationship we are able to create new high-tech jobs that would have otherwise been outsourced to other countries, while at the same time providing Trillium Software with a solution to providing the best possible support for their customers," explained Monty P. Hamilton, CEO of Rural Sourcing, Inc.

About Harte-Hanks®
Harte-Hanks is a worldwide direct and targeted marketing company that provides direct marketing services and shopper advertising opportunities to local, regional, national and international consumer and business-to-business marketers. Visit the Harte-Hanks Web site at www.harte-hanks.com or call (800) 456-9748. Harte-Hanks Trillium Software® enables organizations to achieve Total Data Quality™ by providing a full complement of technologies and services providing global data profiling, data cleansing, enhancement, and data linking for e-business, customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, data warehouse, and other enterprise applications. For more information about Trillium Software and its offerings, call (978) 436-8900 in the United States and in the United Kingdom call +44 (0) 118 940 7666, or visit Trillium Software online at www.trilliumsoftware.com.

About Rural Sourcing, Inc.
Rural Sourcing Inc. (RSI) is the leader in domestic sourcing, a cost-effective alternative to offshoring for technology development and the ongoing support and maintenance for critical business applications. RSI leverages IT skilled resources in our Centers of Excellence which are located near universities in rural America. Due to a lower cost of living and our proven delivery methods RSI is able to provide costs savings of 60-70% for our clients. Well trained employees with a strong work ethic living in low cost cities enable RSI to deliver exceptional value for our clients. Inherently, this value comes without the obstacles of time zones, distance, language, and geopolitical risks associated with offshore models. Over the next few years RSI intends to create 3,000 new technology jobs in the US by establishing centers of excellence in non-metro, low cost of living cities across the United States.

Contact:
Robert Klein
Rural Sourcing, Inc.
916-399-9009
rklein@ruralsourcing.com