Thunderhead Evolves as It Launches NOW

Thunderhead, the enterprise communications company, has announced a milestone release of its award-winning communications platform, under the new brand Thunderhead NOW.

Thunderhead NOW heralds the next stage in the evolution of the company’s XML-based communications platform, which, until this time, has been known as Thunderhead.

With the NOW release, Thunderhead’s one-platform-for-all-communications paradigm becomes even more pervasive across the enterprise, integrating communications with customer facing business processes. NOW will provide new functionality for marketing and campaign management and enhanced management visibility with enterprise-wide dashboards and reporting capability.

“Both customer service expectations, and the variety of different communication methods they choose to use, continues to increase,” says Glen Manchester, CEO of Thunderhead. “Relationships for organizations, such as insurance companies and banks, depend on a series of interactions with a customer, each stage potentially involving a different communication channel. Maintaining context and consistency in communications at each step is critical for successful customer engagement. Our technology provides this by exposing role-based interfaces that allow the integration of all types of communications with key applications and business processes.”

The Thunderhead NOW platform improves customer retention and time-to-value by ensuring front-line business users can manage the design and control of customer-facing communications. At the same time, Thunderhead NOW provides centralized control of enterprise issues such as regulated content, brand protection, compliance, security and management visibility.

“In the past, organizations have focused on the necessity of producing customer output, especially print,” said Manchester. “However, forward-thinking organizations understand that communications must be delivered in the context of business processes, driven by customer value and delivering outcomes that enhance customer retention and acquisition. Today, providers are missing the opportunity to maximize the revenue potential of the customer relationships they already have. This is a concern, as it costs four times as much to acquire a new customer as it does to retain one.”

Thunderhead customers will benefit from the growing presence of the company’s global integration partners, who are developing practices around the platform that leverage their industry expertise in areas such as insurance and banking. This is possible because of the platform’s open architecture and process layer, which allows partners to build on their existing expertise in BPM, ECM, portal and enterprise system deployments.

About Thunderhead

Thunderhead is the leading provider of enterprise solutions for the production of multi-channel business communications.

Thunderhead delivers the only enterprise platform that enables business users to manage the end-to-end process of creating intelligent personalized communications across multiple channels.

Due to its unique combination of Business User control, genuine open standards-based core, and enterprise capabilities, Thunderhead has quickly established itself as the clear market leader for financial services organizations and the standard for Investment Banking Trade Confirmations. Thunderhead's customer base includes many of the world’s leading organizations, including Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, Prudential, BlueCross & BlueShield of North Carolina and UBS, and is serviced from offices located in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Thunderhead is one of the world’s fastest growing software companies, as recognized by Software 500 in the US and the Sunday Times in the UK.

For further information please visit www.thunderhead.com.