BCC Software and BlueCrest Announce New Integration

The future success of the mailing, printing, and production industries hinges on the development of integrations that bridge disparate software solutions and ecosystems. The demand for data flexibility and digital highways to harness data from one system to inform and enhance another is ever growing. Two pioneers in the industry, BCC Software, a BlueCrest Company, and BlueCrest are working hand-in-hand to build these interconnections—software APIs to streamline and enhance your workflow environment from data cleansing and presort through your mail production document output. Today we are proud to announce a powerful new integration between BCC Architect REACH, delivering the power of BCC Software’s postal presorting automation in a scalable, automated API connection, and BlueCrest Strata Output Manager, delivering industry-leading comprehensive cloud-based document output management. This collaboration connects two of the industry’s most comprehensive platforms to deliver a unified, intelligent workflow from data cleansing and presort through the document workflow—bridging the gap between your postal optimization and mail production environments.

Your organization no longer needs to migrate data between multiple systems or manually update software to adhere to the latest postal regulation and compliance requirements, incurring the inherent risks, workflow inefficiencies, and time delays associated with these manual processes. This integration allows your organization to move seamlessly from your address validation, presort automation, and mail tracking in BCC Architect REACH right into your mail production environment and workflows in BlueCrest Strata Output Manager—all within a fully connected cloud-based environment. The result: a faster, more accurate, and cost-efficient process for high-volume mailers and marketers, improving deliverability, compliance, and overall customer experience.

BCC Architect REACH: Cloud-Based Postal Intelligence

BCC Architect REACH is BCC Software’s next-generation, cloud-based postal presort and address-correction API service. It delivers CASS processing, ZIP+4 validation, presort for USPS First-Class and Marketing Mail, IMb/IMpb barcoding, mail tracking, palletization, and mail.dat generation—all via RESTful web services hosted in a SOC 2-compliant environment. This integration harnesses the power of the comprehensive suite of presort and data cleansing you’ve come to know from BCC Software in a secure, fast, and flexible system.

This API-first design eliminates the need for on-premises presort software, eliminating the need for management of postal updates, and integrates directly with upstream systems, enabling automation for industries such as print/mail service providers, direct marketers, government, education, and e-commerce.

BlueCrest Strata Output Manager: Complete Cloud-based Document Output Management Software

The BlueCrest Strata suite of products offers a wide array of workflow efficiency improvements. The Strata Output Manager has been reimagined in the cloud to elevate operational efficiency across any environment. This proven software provides real-time document enhancement and print stream transformations to seamlessly convert documents from any format to another, simplifying complex workflows.

Managing today's document output can consume a lot of time, labor, and printer productivity. With labor challenges, advances in technology, and the ongoing burden of legacy systems, many mail production organizations struggle with complex, closed-architecture, diverse output systems, and less-than-ideal workflow.

The BlueCrest Strata Output Manager's unique architecture greatly improves document workflow and frees you from the limitations of proprietary vendors and data streams. Now available on the BlueCrest Strata cloud-based platform, it is easier than ever to benefit from robust print management capabilities:

• Process diverse data streams with real-time transformation and generation of electronic output in PDF, XML, or TIFF format.
• Get more out of your hardware with centralized printer control, resource management, and job-level accounting.
• Manage your entire print shop with one powerful Digital Front End (DFE).
• Automate and track reprints.
• Easily create workflows for client and job onboarding.

The Power of this Integration

By combining BCC Architect REACH postal intelligence and BlueCrest Strata Output Manager, organizations can now automate the presort-through-production lifecycle:

1. Data to Presort: BCC Architect REACH validates addresses, performs presort and barcoding, and generates USPS-compliant files.
2. Presort to Production: Once cleansed, data is fed from Architect REACH through to your BlueCrest Strata Output Manager ecosystem seamlessly, bridging presort and production.
3. Production, Document Management & Enhancement: BlueCrest Strata Output Manager takes over, greatly improving document workflow and frees you from the limitations of proprietary vendors and data streams

The integration enhances your operations, improves scalability, and ensures data integrity, compliance, and postal optimization of your data in an automated delivery method—right into your mail production and document output software environment. It also reduces costs and risk associated with manual postal production or disconnected ecosystems.

Source: BCC Software

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