As the complexity of building and maintaining effective customer communications increase, staying on the forefront of technology can be costly. Solutions to reduce postage costs to enable transpromotional documents or implement electronic billing can take years to implement and involve costly investments in hardware, software and personnel. Can your organization afford to miss opportunities to increase your bottom line?

Bell and Howell now offers Data Services, a powerful Software as a Service alternative to owning and maintaining an ADF environment. Now you can get all the benefits of data cleansing, document enhancement, transpromotional opportunities and more without costly infrastructure investment.

Bell and Howell Data Services provides mailers with data processing, document tracking and online delivery solutions. As a pioneer and leader in developing systems for high-document production operations, we are uniquely positioned to help you transform your operations with all of the power offered by today’s rapidly changing technology.

Data Services Solutions

Our Data Services include a wide array of solutions that allow you to take advantage of our expertise and data processing capabilities to enhance your documents and optimize your production capabilities.

Document Enhancement Solutions

Whether you are modifying existing applications to run on new equipment or building a new document from the ground up, we can enhance the design and performance of your mailings to reduce costs and create more effective customer communications. Our document enhancement solutions are flexible enough to include changing the print format, adding color, graphics, charts and much more.

Postal Solutions

As the primary cost in the mailing operation, managing postage costs is a top priority. Our Data Services’ Postal Solutions can maximize your postage savings through address hygiene, presorting and managing documentation submissions to the USPS. We can provide NCOA^Link, CASS, DPV, LACS^Link, presorting and postal enhancements directly to your print data file.

Integrity Solutions

Expand your ability to track documents through your production process. Our integrity solutions can add intelligence to your mailings to ensure that your documents exit your production process and allow customer service representatives to research the status of individual mailpieces. We can add tracking codes, generate control files for integration with item tracking and assist you in complying with today’s stringent regulations, including HIPAA, SOX, and UDAP etc.

Marketing Solutions

With Data Services’ Marketing Solutions you can unlock the transpromotional potential of your customer communications. Our tools and expertise allow for the addition and management of full-color, high-impact messaging to your existing documents. Adding targeted and meaningful messaging to your transactional documents creates revenue opportunities and strengthens the relationship with your customers. With our services, you can add text-based, graphical or full-page messages. Messages can be personalized for targeted demographics and other pre-defined criteria.

Online Archiving

Online Archiving gives your representatives full access to current and historical information to answer questions related to statement details such as transactions and payments. Tracking information for every document is stored for round-the-clock access to your production process data. You’ll have the power to view documents in the same format that they were delivered, search them by customized criteria and review tracking data. Our secure online portal provides robust activity reporting and unlimited document history.

Electronic Delivery

Using Data Services’ Electronic Delivery Solutions, you can fully integrate Internet delivery of statements into your production processes. From statement design, to online enrollments and marketing, we can build an Internet delivery strategy to meet your needs. Our services provide a secure and reliable platform for your application.

Our portal-based approach provides you with a powerful, customizable interface that maintains your branding and allows for flexible enrollment options, online account management, multiple output formats such as HTML and PDF. Your customers will seamlessly access their account data and transact directly with your organization online.

World-Class Data Center

Bell and Howell Data Services are hosted at our world-class data processing facility designed so that we can offer our clients a secure, protected environment that includes multiple Internet carriers, redundant power, fire detection systems, a high level of physical security, and 24 x 7 management by technical experts.

Why Bell and Howell?

We’ve made it easy for you to enjoy all of the benefits of an ADF without the costly IT investment. You can use some or all of our services while knowing that when the rules or technology change, you’re assured that your mail is in compliance. Let us be your data experts.