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Billing Systems 2002 - A-Z of exhibitors, events and announcements April/May 2002 |
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The following
information is provided by the companies themselves to the organisers of the
show, hence advanced-television.com has not sought to assure the veracity
or otherwise of any claims made. Nonetheless, the list below provides a useful
'who's who' along with announcements of product launches, conference presentation
and specific events during the main show.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M |
| N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
| A |
ADC
Stand C5
www.adc.com/oss
What's on display: Singl.eView Customer Management, Convergent Billing & Commerce
Solution
Product Launch:
ADC recently released version 4.02 of its Singl.eView Convergent Billing software.
A key part of this solution is the patent-pending, Singl.eView Commerce Engine
which will be displayed at Billing Systems 2002. The Singl.eView Commerce
Engine simplifies the financial and transactional support needed to provide
consumers with next-generation broadband and 2.5G and 3G wireless services,
including advanced data and video.
Demonstrations
Singl.eView Commerce Solutions: Viewers will see first-hand how
Singl.eView is a key enabler in the journey to "Generation NeXt". It is a
foundation for the communications lifestyle revolution and enables service
providers to adopt any business model to increase average revenue per user
(ARPU).
See a 2G-customer transitioning to next generation services, or view a pure
2.5G/3G model with the advantages of customer intimacy, customer control and
real time commerce transactions. All components of Singl.eView, including
the patent-pending Singl.eView Commerce Engine, will be utilized, together
with a 3G-enabled PDA device, to demonstrate its critical role in the delivery
of next generation services, profitably.
(*Demonstrations will be scheduled at regular interviews on our stand mini
theatre or can be viewed in a one-to-one session).
Recent Announcements:
Partnerships: Global Alliance with PwC Consulting - Balance & Payment Management
Solution Customers: Appiant Technologies, Priority Telecom, Hutchison 3G
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Am-Beo
Stand C9
www.am-beo.com
Announcements:
Am-Beo to announce global distribution agreement with a tier one systems integrator.
Am-Beo will be announcing a major initiative with a leading systems integrator
during the course of Billing Systems 2002. The agreement will result in a
global channel for Am-Beo's products and significant penetration in the content
settlement market. Details of this major development will be released during
the show. This will be announced at a Press Briefing on Wednesday April 24,
2pm - 3pm, in the Press Briefing Room adjacent to the Press Office.
Product Launch:
Intel Blueprint released with Am-Beo, HP and Oracle. At Billing Systems 2002,
Intel will be releasing their latest blueprint
solution for content charging and revenue chain management, in conjunction
with Am-Beo, HP and Oracle. The Intel Blueprint programme represents a collaborative
effort in the definition of a solution for specific areas. The four partners
have created a blueprint for content charging and revenue chain management,
representing a packaged solution with Oracle technology, HP hardware, and
Am-Beo's rate-rec(tm) solution on an Intel architecture.
Am-Beo releases rate-rec 3.0 - the revenue chain management solution. Am-Beo
will be launching version 3.0 of rate-rec at Billing Systems 2002. A volume
based rating and revenue chain management solution, rate- rec 3.0 offers an
abundance of new features and functionality, including
rating engine enhancements which further increase our industry leading performance
and scalability. Volume rating has been added and is complimented by a cycle
engine which also empowers revenue chain management capabilities providing
functionality to produce statements for partners in the revenue chain. Middleware
independence is introduced along with initial support for J2EE architecture.
Demonstrations:
Am-Beo & Network 365 demonstrate SMS Group Chat pricing solution. Network
365 and Am-Beo will be demonstrating an SMS Group Chat pricing solution with
Network 365's mzone Agora platform and Am-Beo's rate- rec solution during
the Billing Systems 2002 conference. "SMS is big, big business with new features
opening up the market even further," says Network 365's John Hurley, V.P.
Marketing. "SMS based Chat and other messaging services that the mzone Agora
platform delivers can help to maximise SMS traffic, and advanced rating schemes
from Am-Beo can maximise the revenue that these services generate." The pre-integrated
solution will be demonstrated on the Am-Beo stand C9.
There will also be a live Demo of GPRS Pre-Paid Content on a PDA. This demo
is very exciting as it actually shows someone browsing the web via an HP Jordano
PDA across a GPRS network with great speed. This is going to be on both the
Am-beo stand and the HP stand.
Conference/Presentations:
Am-Beo CEO, John Brady, to chair rating stream: John Brady, CEO of Am-Beo,
will be chairing the rating and pricing stream of Billing Systems 2002 on
Wednesday 24th April, from 11.00 to 12.45. There are two presentations taking
place, "Extending a Rating Capacity through a Managed Service: the i-Centric/KBT
Model" and "Overcoming the Challenges of Billing Multiple Parties for Value
Added Services", presented by KBT systems and DTMS AG respectively.
Gold Sponsors:
Am-Beo are proud to be gold sponsors of this year's Billing Systems 2002,
for the second year running. Billing Systems was a very successful event for
us in 2001 and we are delighted to be so strongly associated with it once
again. We are confident that you will find it an extremely educational and
helpful event. Please join us for champagne to celebrate our gold sponsorship
of Billing Systems 2002, on Wednesday 24th April. We will also be announcing
our XBOX winner. Celebrations begin at 5.30pm
Events:
Am-Beo will be giving away a Microsoft Xbox at their stand.
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Amdocs
Stand B11
www.amdocs.com
Visit us at Stand 11 and see our live demo on prepaid/postpaid convergence
for next generation voice and data services!
Conference/Presentations:
Exploiting Outsourcing to Control Operational Lifesycle Costs and Improve
Operational Efficiencies - Pre-conference Seminar on Total Cost of Ownership.
Michael Couture, Vice President, Product Marketing, 22 April, 14h40-15h20
Exploiting Outsourcing to Positively Impact the Bottom Line - Amdocs Customer
Case Study Presentation. Dick LeFave, CIO, Nextel, 24 April,
12h00-12h45
Amdocs Mobile Offering - Product Briefing. Graham Carey, Director, Product
Marketing, Europe, 24 April, 14h15
Squeezing 2.5G and 3G Functionality Out of Your 2G Network - Post- Conference
Workshop. Graham Carey, Director, Product Marketing, Europe, 26 April, 09h30-17h00
Amdocs is also a proud sponsor of the Billing Systems 2002 Strategy plenary
session, 23 April, 09h00 and the CRM, Loyalty and Churn conference stream,
23 April, 11h00
Demonstrations:
Amdocs Enabler: enables rapid time-to-revenue for next generation voice and
data services, supporting mediation, rating and billing.
Amdocs ClarifyCRM: provides comprehensive communications-specific CRM functionality
as an integrated product suite covering sales, service and support, and marketing
and analytics.
About Amdocs:
Amdocs is the world's leading provider of CRM, billing, and order management
systems to the communications industry. Amdocs delivers end- to-end software
solutions and offers world-class outsourcing capabilities, supporting convergent
multi-service operations, emerging markets and next generation services across
all lines of business, including wireline, wireless, broadband, electronic
and mobile commerce and IP. Amdocs offers full voice and IP capabilities with
a comprehensive single customer view and convergent product catalog. With
an unsurpassed 20-year track record in successful delivery of mission- critical
systems and more than 9,050 information systems professionals worldwide, Amdocs
supports a global customer base.
Amdocs platforms include Amdocs Ensemble for Convergence, Amdocs Mobile, Amdocs
Enabler and Amdocs Horizon for Emerging Markets. Amdocs offers customers a
long-term strategic infrastructure investment, giving communications providers
the ability to extend functionality and add new innovative services and business
models. Amdocs platform scalability is proven to support the high-volume performance
requirements of leading global communications providers with the flexibility
required to fully embrace the emerging technologies of the future.
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Anite Calculus
Stand C3
www.anitecalculus.com
Announcements:
At Billing Systems 2002, Anite Calculus will demonstrate billing across a
range of business models from retail to interconnect and wholesale solutions.
Anite Calculus will also present a solution for real-time content-based billing
of mobile applications across GPRS. The solution addresses the challenges
posed by retail and back-end revenue sharing that will become ever more prevalent
in the next generation.
The next generation of telecommunications creates billing issues that operators
cannot ignore if they want to remain profitable in today's highly competitive
market. Billing solutions need to be flexible and scaleable to address the
demands of, for example, IP-based services in both the mobile and fixed domains.
Anite Calculus addresses these challenges in a proven, scaleable and cost-effective
manner.
About Anite Calculus:
Anite Calculus is a provider of scaleable and integrated billing solutions
for both emerging and mature telecommunications and e-commerce companies.
Its key focus is inter-company billing for wholesale, partner settlement and
interconnect, across fixed, mobile and IP networks.
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Azure
Stand B2
www.azure-solutions.com
Announcements:
On Azure's stand they will be demonstrating their Key Performance Indicator
Survey, which uses the data generated from Azure's Analysys survey into revenue
losses across global telecommunications operators, to show individual telecommunications
companies how much they could be losing from potential revenue leakage.
Conference/Presentations:
Eden Phillips (Integration Manager) and Tony Ash (Interconnect Solutions Consultant)
are speaking at the show on 'Optimising Your Systems & Solutions to Maximise
Revenue'. Martin Browne (Director, Strategy, AZURE, & Leader, Wholesale &
Interconnect Working Group THE GLOBAL BILLING ASSOCIATION) is speaking on
'Interconnect and Wholesale' at the show.
About Azure:
Azure specialises in revenue assurance solutions with the principal objective
of enabling communications operators worldwide to reduce losses and safeguard
profits from malicious and unintentional revenue leakage. Borne out of the
billing and revenue assurance division of BT, Azure offers a range of award-winning
revenue assurance products comprising five specialist areas; mediation, interconnect
billing, least cost routing, network integrity and fraud detection. In addition,
the company offers consultancy, ASP and integration services.
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The Board Room Inc.
Stand A2
www.circad.com
Announcements:
The Board Room Inc., a Chicago based provider of revenue assurance equipment,
is proud to announce its entry into the European marketplace beginning with
Billing Systems 2002. The Board Room takes a unique approach to revenue assurance
by paying particular attention to the switch in the central office. Our philosophy
can be defined simply as "No Record - No Bill". This specialised approach
distinguishes us as one of only a handful of manufactures focused solely on
switch accuracy.
About The Board Room
The Board Room currently manufactures CDR based Revenue Assurance tools for
small and large telecommunications companies. These revenue assurance tools
known as PAT are comprised of both software and hardware. The software is
designed to run on a standard PC and communicates to the hardware, located
at the Central Office, via modem. The PAT software is easy to use and contains
modules for both script building and CDR comparisons. PAT is currently standard
operating environment in thousands of switches throughout the U.S.A.
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BSI Product Services
Stand D8
www.bsi-global.com
Product Launch:
Launching new product at show - kitemark scheme for new Oftel standard.
Announcements:
BSI will be demonstrating how companies can comply to OFTEL's new Metering
& Billing Standard (OTR003:2001). To achieve approval and ultimately use the
BSI Kitemark, all aspects of a company's systems making up the bill will have
to undergo assessment. First a quality systems assessment, second an assessment
of the metering & billing processes and thirdly the billing will be reconciled
with usage.
The areas of focus are likely to include customer relationship management,
sales & marketing, engineering and network operation. The metering & billing
processes assessment is based on analysis and measurement of the operator's
charging systems and reconciliation of usage with billing to establish a compliant
data history, rather than being a service based on just process management
assessment. It is expected, in some cases, to lead to revenue benefits.
Oftel has published a phased programme for major operators to apply during
2002 once the scheme has gone live which is expected to be in the second quarter
of this year. Achieving approval is typically expected to take a year, as
operators have to demonstrate a history of compliance achievement.
About BSI
BSI, in conjunction with specialist service providers, BSI Business Solutions
Limited (BBSL) and TCS, also carry out revenue integrity audits, interconnect
auditing and training that could amongst other things also decrease fraud
and increase marketing awareness.
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CAPE Technologies
Stand C15
www.capetechnologies.com
Product Launch:
Exclusively at Billing Systems 2002, CAPE Technologies will launch its latest
product RoamBroker‚, RoamBroker‚ is a comprehensive solution for managing
all aspects of mobile billing settlement for inter-operator roaming. Features
include call rating, roaming agreement management and exchange of billing
records and invoices with roaming partners and clearing houses.
RoamBroker‚ is highly flexible and can be deployed as a stand alone system
with local interfaces to mediation / billing or otherwise can be tightly integrated
with the billing system if preferred, using the billing system rating engine
for example. By concentrating all the financial aspects of roaming in a single
place, RoamBroker‚ offers the operator the ability to efficiently manage the
roaming business process.
Roaming traffic behaviour can be analysed, and targeted marketing campaigns
implemented, to increase market share of incoming roamers and to segment outgoing
roamers with discount incentives and other
deviations from standard tariffs. The ability of a roaming management function
to exploit and implement marketing opportunities without impact on the main
company billing system provides a key flexibility within an operator organisation
and a resultant competitive advantage.
RoamBroker‚ is a radically new approach that recognises the importance of
roaming and its central role in the mobile telecom business.
Conference/Presentations:
Product Briefing - Wednesday 24th April at 11.45 in Product Briefing Room
2. The briefing session will outline the key features of RoamBroker‚. The
product briefing will also explain how RoamBroker‚ enables operators to avail
themselves of key benefits, such as to streamline roaming administration business
processes, maximise roaming revenues through target marketing and rating capabilities,
reduce dependency on clearing houses with associated costs.
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Cerillion Technologies Ltd
Stand D5
www.cerillion.com
Product Launch:
Web and handset based self care for converged and next generation networks.
Next generation mobile users will expect to be able to manage their accounts,
pay bills, provision new services and register and resolve problems directly
from their handset. The Cerillion self care suite allows them to do just that.
IBAS One, a complete, rapid to roll out Interconnect Billing system. IBAS
One has been designed to take the guesswork out of Interconnect system roll
outs. Delivered at one set price that includes all software, hardware, implementation
and the first year's system support, IBAS One ensures that there are no unpleasant
surprises.
Total Interconnect Management, a service that looks after all aspects of operators
interconnect strategy and billng operations.
Total Interconnect Management provides totally managed billing plus an ongoing
review of all aspects of the Interconnect strategy and regular recommendations
for action. Total Interconnect Management aims to provide the skill, experience
and knowledge that it can often be difficult to achieve within a small to
medium sized operator.
Conference/Presentations:
Product Briefing will look at the parallels between manufacturing industry
and telecommunications Interconnect. This analogy will be used to point out
the lessons that network operators could learn from more traditional industries.
(12:30pm, Tuesday April 23, Product Briefing Room 1).
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CheckFree i-Solutions
Stand C4
www.checkfree.com/i-solutions
Product Launch:
Business Process Rules Support (BPRS) - Driving next generation EBPP. The
average bill takes 40 days to be paid. Organisations can reduce by 50% the
cost of resolving a billing dispute by enabling customers to view and query
invoice line items online.
Announcements:
Netskil, Iceland's leading e-bill consolidator, uses CheckFree platform to
sign tenth biller in under a year. More details are available from the CheckFree
stand.
Conference/Presentations:
Product Briefing - CheckFree i-Series EBPP software & BPRS
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ComArch
Stand C17
www.comarch.com
Product Launch:
ComArch will introduce exciting new features to its acclaimed TYTAN Billing
System and Customer Care (v. 6.0) solution. This latest version of the award-winning
TYTAN suite includes unprecedented breakthroughs in content and cost management;
mCommerce; pre- and post-paid integration; revenue sharing; and support for
new business models, as well as a real- time rule-based rating engine that
allows legacy systems to be upgraded with TYTAN to support next generation
services. The system also supports contact management with dynamic target
group definitions for marketing campaigns, and flexible invoicing with support
for multiple currencies and tax jurisdictions.
Events:
Sports lovers and the young-at-heart will cherish the opportunity to take
part in COMARCH Hoops, a basketball simulation that will test your shooting
accuracy as well as your knowledge of COMARCH and our solutions. Enter for
a chance to win exciting prizes and perhaps even a surprise or two for some
lucky contestants.
TYTAN Mobile Portal, a module from COMARCH's TYTAN suite will be showcased
at Billing Systems 2002. It enables communication providers to leverage the
powers of the Internet and mobile technology to quickly deliver next generation
services and to optimize their investments in the delivery of these services,
regardless of their respective business models.
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Comptel
Stand C6
www.comptel.com
Demonstrations:
There will be a demo at Comptel's stand on Comptel Chincilla, the
solution for content and service mediation. Content and Service Mediation
solution, Comptel Chinchilla, links m-services parties - operators, content
providers and customers - in a profitable value chain. The solution offers
complete management from the deployment of new services up to content charging.
It enables operators and service providers to develop and rapidly deploy innovative
business concepts. This will generate more profitable services and speed up
revenue generation.
Conference/Presentations:
There will also have an opportunity to hear a customer case study on Comptel
Chinchilla on 24th April at 16.45 when Mr Sami Masala, Business Development
Director at Elisa Communications, gives a presentation "Exploiting Mediation
to Develop New Ways to Innovate the Business".
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Convergys
Stand B15, B19, A9
www.convergys.com
Demonstrations:
Live demonstrations of Convergys' Next Generation Framework will include -
best of breed products Geneva, Convergys Mediation Manager, Convergys Activation
Manager; pre-integrated Settlement and IP application suites based on Convergys'
best of breed products; end to end products, Atlys for mobile operators and
WIZARD for Cable, satellite, DTT and other broadband service providers.
Convergys will be featuring live demonstrations of a number of alternative
ways of delivering true convergent prepaid functionality.
Conference/Presentations:
On Monday April 22, Chris Merrick and Andy Humphries will be presenting at
the Next Generation Pre-Pay seminar in which the drivers and solutions for
prepaid and postpaid integration will be discussed.
At the Total Cost of Ownership seminar on Monday April 22, Christoph Wilfert
will be discussing the critical business issues associated with the development
of new revenue streams and with managing the total cost of ownership in convergent
carrier-grade environments.
Convergys will be chairing the conference session on Wednesday 24 April on
issues to do with outsourcing and managed services, which will include a case
study by Geneva user Telia Telecom. Although until now, the outsourcing model
has not found much favour in Europe, many observers believe the climate is
changing. Convergys will be discussing a number of different outsourcing models
that deliver both financial and operational benefits. One to ones on this
subject can be arranged outside of the conference session.
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CSG International Ltd
Stand A7
www.csgsystems.com
Announcements:
CSG Systems will be showcasing its leading products - CSG NextGen/BP, and
CSG Kenanò/ BP version 10.1, which was commercially launched in the autumn
of last year. CSG experts will also be available to discuss the latest customer
care and billing trends in prepaid, content and revenue settlements for communications
markets. CSG Systems are Associate Sponsors at Billing Systems 2002.
Conference/Presentations:
As thought leaders in the industry, CSG Systems' senior executive team for
the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region will also be playing an active
role in educating operators about the communications market in a series of
seminars, conference presentations, and product briefing sessions.
Malcolm Lewis, Director, Mobile Industry and Jim De Marco, Product Manager
for Prepaid Solutions, will be co-leading a pre-conference seminar on Monday
22nd April on pre-paid solutions. Malcolm Lewis will be chairing the Content
and Usage stream on Wednesday 25th April 9.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. This session
will be supported by a related white paper. Tony Melvin, Product Management,
Content and Roaming Settlement will be presenting a product briefing on Tuesday
24th February at 2.30 p.m. in Room 1.
About CSG Systems:
At Stand A7, attendees will be able to learn about the new CSG NextGen/BP
(formerly known as CSG NextGen‚) product, which is designed specifically for
international cable broadband providers, and provides a comprehensive end-to-end
solution covering every aspect of the customer life cycle. CSG will also be
showcasing its award winning CSG Kenanò/BP (formerly known as Arborò/BP) which
is a real-time, Web-enabled billing product that enables customers to launch
leading-edge services. The product is designed to increase revenue by customizing
services for individual customers and expand revenue streams by offering multiple
services on a single invoice.
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Daleen Technologies
Stand D6
www.daleen.com
Daleen's RevChain is a high performance billing and customer care software
solution that manages the revenue chain for traditional and next-generation
communication service providers, retailers and distributors of digital media,
and technology solutions providers.
Daleen will demonstrate its latest RevChain billing solution for Digital Content
providers and will show how best to manage the Digital Content Revenue Chain.
Conference/Presentations:
A Product Briefing session will be held at 12pm on Wednesday 24th April in
Briefing Room 2.
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Danet
Stand B12
www.bss.danet.de
Product Launch:
Danet will launch its optimized BSS blueprint b.bridge.
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Digiquant
Stand E11
www.digiquant.com
Product Launch:
At the upcoming Billing Systems 2002 event, Digiquant will be announcing and
demonstrating its packaged GPRS-prepaid solution.
Making more with less is a critical challenge for every business. Service
providers can extract the maximum revenue from their finite bandwidth - regardless
of what access technologies they use to provide it - with Digiquant's Internet
Management System (IMS) in combination with an advanced gateway such as Cisco's
Service Selection Gateway (SSG). Next-generation services, whether content,
streaming audio and video, or simple file downloads, can be accessed simultaneously
by the end user, and, most importantly, rated individually using the combined
solution.
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DigitalRoute
Stand D12B
www.digitalroute.com
Demonstrations:
At this event, we will be conducting scheduled (and un-scheduled) demos of
the MediationZone 2.1 software. Several different demos will be shown including:
Prepaid, Real-time GPRS, IP with Netflow, web servers and Radius, and a Content
Charging Gateway demo.
Conference/Presentations:
Our Product Briefing session will be focused on "The New Mediation: Supporting
Real-time, 2-way Mediation". We will discuss how to meet the challenge of
supporting real-time prepaid and postpaid content billing.
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EC2B Business Partner AB
Stand D17A
www.ec2b.com
Product Launch:
EC2B is exhibiting at Billing Systems 2002 to present its managed billing
service portfolio, including both outsourcing- and consultancy services, and
to launch its multi service End-to-End billing solution.
In addition, a former representative from a present billing outsourcing partner
to EC2B, a pan-European mobile operator, will be available for interviews
on the 24th of April. EC2B manages the operations of business processes on
3 different billing applications for this pan-European mobile operator. The
3 applications are owned and hosted by the operator, and remotely managed
from EC2B's offices in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Dublin.
About EC2B:
EC2B was founded in year 2000 by a group of dedicated billing and telecom
experts, all with a long background as operators and/or telecom systems suppliers.
Their mission is to provide Telecom operators on the North European market
with innovative billing services that significantly improve the Telecom operator's
ability to control costs, revenue and market opportunities, and do it more
reliably and cost- effective than ever done before.
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EDB 4Tel
Stand B13
www.edb4tel.com
EDB 4tel's Order Manager is one of the most advanced engines for executing
complex orders.
* EDB 4tel's Product Manager - will support service providers with an advanced
tool for fast implementation of new and advanced products and services.
* EDB 4tel's Sterling Mediation - offers operators real-time event based mediation
functions for extremely high traffic volumes from any type of network element.
* EDB 4tel's Sterling Carrier Solution - is a product suite for handling the
business processes of carrier's carriers enabling them to sell more minutes
and reduce their costs.
Conference/Presentations:
A Product Briefing session will be held at 12pm on Tuesday 23rd April in Briefing
Room 1.
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FIQAS Software B.V.
Stand C10
www.fiqas.nl
About FIQAS:
FIQAS Software BV is a Dutch software company with offices in the Netherlands
and the United Kingdom. FIQAS has a vast experience in the development and
implementation of solutions in the area of Billing, CRM and more. With a wide
range of value added products, FIQAS is able to fully support providers that
offer the "triple-play of services" (voice, data and vision) to the market.
FIQAS is able to provide their customers with in-house as well as outsourced
end-to-end solutions that are capable of supporting the entire business process
of service providers, from managing the pre- sales process, connecting customers
and providing customer services, all the way through to billing and managing
accounts receivables.
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Formula Telecom Solutions
Stand C14A
www.fts-soft.com
Formula Telecom Solutions is a leading telecoms management solution provider
for wireline, wireless and convergent operators. Its Leap Plus solution provides
end to end management of the telecoms environment, allowing operators to adapt
to rapidly changing market conditions. Formula Telecom Solutions is an affiliated
company of Formula Vision Technologies and Elgadcom Group.
Conference/Presentations:
A Product Briefing session will be held at 5pm on Wednesday 24th April in
Briefing Room 2.
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Fujitsu
Stand D2B
www.fujitsu.com
Product Launch:
Fujitsu Consulting (formerly ICL), one of the key sponsors of the Billing
Systems 2002 show, will be unveiling its new branding and specific services
at its stand D2B at the Show.
Events:
For anyone who is feeling thirsty, there will be a free cocktail bar on the
stand.
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Hansen Technologies
Stand C11
www.hancorp.co.uk
Product Launch:
The new Melexis Telecom MessageForYou is a state-of-the art TWO WAY SMS and
mail device that operates from any standard fixed-line telephone network.
SMS was brought to us as a user-unfriendly feature of the GSM mobile phones
but has nevertheless grown into an industry in its own right, to the point
where over 30 billion messages per month are sent worldwide.
Until now SMS messaging has been limited to mobile phone users and a number
of restricted one-way terminals and web sites, however Melexis Telecom have
developed the technology to enable users of the MessageForYou device to both
send and receive SMS messages globally to any mobile network in the world
and other MailForYou users.
Demonstrations:
Hansen Technologies and Melexis Telecom are intending to demonstrate the full
end-to-end capability of the integrated Melexis MailForYou product and Hansen
Hub Billing system at the Billing Systems 2002 exhibition in London UK on
the 22nd April 2002.
The demonstration will present real-time rating and billing of live SMS traffic
generated by the MailForYou product communicating with Mobile phone handsets.
Messages will be sent from the MailForYou unit to a mobile phone, and will
be captured by the Hub billing system, before being rated and billed in real-time.
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Hays Document Technologies / Wishstream
Stand C19
Events:
HDT are offering all visitors to the show the opportunity to win two top tickets
to a show of their choice, every day of the show. Visit stand C19, complete
the "Top of the Bill" questionnaire and the caption. There will be one winner
every day.
Conference/Presentations:
A Product Briefing session will be held at 11:45pm on Tuesday 23rd April in
Briefing Room 2.
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Hewlett-Packard
Stand E16
www.hp.com/communications
HP's Next Generation Billing Solutions provide for Circuit or IP switching,
including transmission over hybrid networks. These solutions include HP's
industry-leading products, Internet Usage Manager and OpenCall platform, providing
solutions for: Voice, data, content, applications and Post-paid / pre-paid
payment methods
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HighDeal
Stand E3
www.highdeal.com
Announcements:
Highdeal, Inc., a leading provider of dynamic pricing and rating software
for telecommunications, content, and online services, will be exhibiting to
demonstrate profit assurance for telecom and e-services companies. Fueled
by advanced new features, Highdeal's software suite assures complex pricing
is profitable before offers are brought to market.
The company will be demonstrating its Highdeal Software Suite (version 2.0),
featuring many new advances, such as Powerful, Easy-to-Use Interface, Pricing
and Payment for Convergent Services, Effortless Extension of Existing Systems.
About Highdeal:
Highdeal, a spin-off of France Telecom, provides the pricing, rating, and
billing software tools that empower executives to profitably manage value-based
business models for telecommunications, content, and online services. The
company's suite of products is now in use by a wide range of customers including
wireless, wireline, content, and application service providers. Highdeal is
a privately held company with offices in London, North American offices in
Redwood Shores, California, and French offices in Paris. For more information,
visit www.highdeal.com.
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IBM
Stand B3
www.ibm.com/industries/telecom
Announcements:
IBM will participate at Billing Systems 2002 with a number of its partners
including Portal Software, eDocs, ADC and IBM ICMS, who will be demonstrating
their solutions on the IBM stand (Brompton Hall, Earls Court 1, level 2).
Product Launch:
IBM will also be demonstrating its newly launched Service Provider Delivery
Environment (SPDE). An open standards-based framework, SPDE is designed to
enable mobile operators and service providers to ensure a customer's experience
is second to none - whether this is through new voice, text and Internet services
or the critical support processes such as billing, customer relationship management
(CRM), provisioning, assurance and resource management.
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i-conX
Stand D13B
www.iconxsolutions.com
Product Launch:
i-conX solutions, a leading developer of scalable interconnect billing solutions
to telcos, will be showcasing icon-X ASP - their powerful ASP- package already
gaining major sales throughout the UK and Ireland.
Announcements:
i-conX solutions today announced that The Sixth Expanding Companies Fund,
managed by CF Investment Managers Limited, have completed an investment in
the company. Funding will be used to expand operations and service growing
client requirements.
Events:
Retro gaming fans will be flocking to stand D13B, courtesy of i-conX solutions.
In between developing leading edge interconnect billing software packages,
it seems the chaps in IT thought it would be fun to mix their icons with their
X's (geddit?) - and came up with a vintage Space Invaders game to give the
folks something to play with on-stand.
Apparently the game is lovingly authentic, with squidgy buttons and those
infuriating aliens that get progressively trickier to hit. Just one difference
- you can't pull the plug out to wipe the high score. As compensation, i-conX
promise to hand over a bottle of Champagne to each day's top scorer.
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Intec Telecom Systems
Stand E5
www.intec-telecom-systems.com
Product Launch:
Intec Telecom Systems will use Billing Systems 2002 as the first event worldwide
to launch a major new product line. This product will complement Intec's existing
convergent mediation and interconnect billing products, Inter-mediatE and
InterconnecT, and it will be applicable to any growing carrier that wants
to cut operating costs and improve customer experience. Full details will
be released at the show.
Announcements:
In addition to this major product launch, Intec will be showing, for the first
time outside of the US, the latest version of its Inter-mediatE convergent
mediation system, Version 4. Version 4 adds many new features demanded by
operators of next-generation networks, such as a Content Manager, a Roaming
Manager, and a substantially enhanced Graphical User Interface. V4 also offers
even higher levels of performance using its Smart Distribution architecture,
which allows it to process levels of traffic expected from forthcoming next-generation
networks.
Intec also intends to use Billing Systems 2002 to publicise a number of major
customer wins, in Europe and elsewhere, for its carrier-grade mediation and
billing products.
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INTRACOM S.A.
Stand C2
www.intrasoft.com
Product Launch:
At Billing Systems 2002, we will be launching our new product called iSelectTM.
Demonstrations:
At our stand we will be depicting a real WSC demo. The demo will consist of
some basic scenarios of our customers utilizing the WSC application. Moreover,
we will be presenting a PowerPoint presentation of iSelectTM's overall suite
of products.
Conference/Presentations:
A product briefing presentation will take place Weds, 24 April 2002, at 14:45
pm, in Room 2.
About Intracom:
At Intracom, we have built upon our strengths in the telecommunication space
to establish real expertise in solving Communication Companies' intricate
integration challenges related to most components of the Business Support
Systems. iSelectTM, Intracom's advanced Product Offering, provides the much
needed Partner Value-Chain Management supported by the efficient Billing and
Customer Care processes to substantially improve the agility of SP to focus
on high-value customers. Supported by a state-of-the art messaging and workflow
platform, iSelectTM is a comprehensive suite of Products that can cooperate,
run as stand-alone components or be integrated to 3rd party systems depending
on the business needs.
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MaxBill
Stand C7
www.maxbill.com
MaxBill is a global provider of CRM, Billing and Financial Solutions for competitive
communication and utility service providers. Providers achieve service and
revenue assurance using one flexible Service- Enabling platform.
Conference/Presentations:
A Product Briefing session will be held at 3:45pm on Tuesday 23rd April in
Briefing Room 2.
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MetraTech Corp
Stand B10
www.metratech.com
MetraTech's XML-based billing and revenue sharing platform lets communication
service providers and enterprises instantly create a variety of pricing plans
without custom coding. With molecular billing from MetraTech, providers can
pull apart and recombine billing modules to meet their constantly evolving
business needs.
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Online-Bills Ltd
Stand D11
www.online-bills.com
About Online-Bills:
Online-Bills are the developers behind an e-billing platform that provides
global organisations with a proven, cost effective P2G (Paper to Glass) billing
and e-presentment solution.
Offering full end-to-end billing functionality within a modular framework,
the Online-Bills solution encompasses flexible tariff matrix, definable billing
periods, bundling options, cross product discounting, true convergence of
multiple services and real-time online interrogation of unbilled usage. The
product's flexibility means that its use is not restricted to any specific
product or market and is equally at home within telcos, ISPs, utilities, local
authority and commodity billing.
Events:
Come and visit the Online-Bills stand and try your hand at "Duck Shooting"!
When I say online bills....I mean it!
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Openet Telecom
Stand E7
www.openet-telecom.com
Openet Telecom is the world leader in providing scalable mediation solutions
that enable communication providers with diverse networks to easily implement,
manage, and bill sophisticated services.
Openet Telecom will expand on the recent launch of FusionWorksTM Wireless
- a sophisticated mediation product offering designed specifically for the
wireless operators.
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Portal Software
Stand B9
www.portal.com
Announcements:
Portal will be covering the benefits of converging voice, data and content
via multiple payment methods (prepaid, postpaid and payment gateways).
Mobile value chains going forward - the role of mobile service providers and
content providers in maximising the efficiency and profitability of mobile
network investments and establishing the billing relationship for settlements,
remittances and digital rights management.
A software-based solution designed to deliver the highest ROI with lowest
TCO, protecting and assuring revenue and eliminating revenue leakage
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Protek
Stand E15
www.protek.com
Demonstrations:
Customer Care and Billing demonstration
Events:
Prize draws of palm tops, cd players and champagne
Conference/Presentations:
Protek will be giving a Product Briefing on Next Generation Business & OSS
Solutions - for a rapid and predictable return on investment. Includes details
on - Protek breadth of functionality, Modular concept for optimal functionality,
Protek's open architecture platform, Customer case studies (including Western
Wireless and Viag Europlattform)
About Protek:
Protek develops and markets business and OSS solutions for communication providers
that can be installed individually or implemented as pre- integrated vertical
solutions. Protek, with headquarters in the UK, operates globally and has
over 100 customers.
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Ryder Systems
Stand C16B
www.rydersystems.com
Events:
In conjunction with Billing Systems 2002 Ryder Systems is holding a prize
draw, giving you the opportunity of wining £250 of Red Letter day vouchers
to spend on a fantastic experience of your choice! With more than 300 options,
ranging from amazing adrenaline rushes such as Sky Diving or Motor Racing,
to reviving the body & mind on a Spa Break you can be sure there is something
for YOU! For your chance to win visit the Ryder stand, number C16B and register.
Conference/Presentations:
With "online" being the hottest topic of the moment in the billing arena,
the Ryder product briefing is one you can't afford to miss!
Ryder has developed a leading edge online solution that is already causing
a stir with its existing customers. This fully interactive Internet based
solution not only matches customer needs, aiding retention, but it moves Bill
Management to a new level for the Telco by creating a customised customer
marketing channel for the promotion of new and value added services increasing
the APPU (Average profit per user). To find out just how, and for a full product
demonstration, attend the Ryder product briefing Wednesday 24 April 15:45,
Product Briefing Room 1, or visit the Ryder stand, number C16B.
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Sentori
Stand D15
www.Sentori.com
Product Launch:
Sentori will launch Sentori CaptivatorTM, an advanced, Internet-based customer
care and automated workflow-processing application, which is a key addition
to the Sentoriò Billing and Customer Care System. Especially tailored for
wireless carriers, mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) and other service
providers, Sentori Captivator enables seamless integration with multiple third-party
interfaces and automates provisioning, fulfillment and workflow processes.
In addition it offers Web self care and Electronic Bill Presentment & Payment
(EBPP)- all via a user-friendly Web interface.
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Sepro
Stand E13
www.seprobilling.com
Product Launch:
At Billing Systems 2002, Sepro will be launching the very latest version of
its e-Rate Rating product. Version 3.1 delivers one of the most functional
and mature rating products on the market today. Sepro will be giving live
demonstrations of the software, rating for content, commerce and data based
GPRS transactions.
Conference/Presentations:
Head of Presales, Miquel Jutte will give a brief product briefing at the show,
illustrating e-Rate and its application in service based, IP environments,
its positive impact on the lifecycle and ROI of billing systems, IN prepaid
infrastructures and VAS applications, and how operators can charge for different
services, differently. Manage revenues and grow profitably from wireless data.
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SESI
Stand A11
www.sesi.co.uk
Events:
At our stand this year SESI will be giving visitors the chance to win 1 of
10 cases of French Wine.
Conference/Presentations:
Patrick Seely SESI's Chairman will be running our product briefing session,
during which he will be talking through our new developments and applications
in mobile Location Based Services, IP OSS and Broadband Interactive TV.
About SESI:
Our focus this year is upon reinforcing our core message - as an independent
technology consultancy specialising in advanced Service Management and Operational
Support Systems technologies for the communications industry. For the past
ten years, we've been delivering unique solutions to our clients, creating
appropriate, large-scale and complex software applications integrated with
standard product architectures.
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Smarten Software
Stand E1
www.smarten.com
Announcements:
Smarten, the international wireless billing specialist, is refining its business
strategy to focus more sharply on adjunct solutions for rating and billing
next generation telephony.
The enormous investment in 2.5G and 3G has sparked an increased need amongst
mobile operators to launch services that directly impact the bottom line.
Smarten's adjunct billing solutions (that integrate easily with existing billing
infrastructures) will give mobile operators the opportunity to increase Average
Revenue Per User (ARPU) without having to spend heavily on updating or replacing
complex incumbent systems.
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SunTec Business Solutions
Stand A3
www.suntecgroup.com
Product Launch:
TBMS 3.1 - the latest version of SunTec's leading Billing and Customer Care
system.
Conference/Presentations:
15 minute product briefing on TBMS 3.1.
About SunTec:
SunTec supplies TBMSTM billing and customer care solutions for transaction
& event-based rating. A modular, easily configured design ensures fast development
and pre-built interfaces enable easy integration with legacy & new systems.
High scalability means optimum cost-efficiency for smaller and high-production
environments. Sun Tec has over 200 telecoms, financial services and utilities
sites globally.
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TeleBilling A/S
Stand E9
www.telebilling.dk
Product Launch:
TeleBilling will release the new version of the integrated billing and customer
product - naviBilling - at Billing Systems 2002. With the new version, naviBilling
3.20, existing and potential customers can expect a product that gives them
better performance and a product that can scale even higher which means more
subscribers and more CDR's.
Demonstrations:
TeleBilling will demonstrate the new 3.20 version at their stand.
Announcements:
TeleBilling has also strengthened its management team by appointing Mr Niels
Duedahl as new CEO. Mr Duedahl has taken over the management from
Mr Jesper Schack, who instead takes over the position as Vice President of
Business Development in the TeleBilling Group.
As new Vice President of Sales & Marketing, TeleBilling has appointed Mr Frederic
Bourgeois. Mr Bourgeois comes from a position as Managing Director of TeleBilling
France SA.
About TeleBilling:
TeleBilling Group develops and sells the "in-house" designed billing system
naviBilling, which is already in use by more than 40 leading operators and
service providers throughout Europe for technologies ranging from wireline,
wireless, Cable TV, Internet services tobroadband and leased lines.
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Telecomms Consultancy & Solutions Ltd.
Stand E4
www.tcslimited.com
Product Launch:
A new version of their CDR Guardian product will be launched at Billing 2002
along with announcements about the impact of the new proposed regulatory regime.
About TCS:
TCS is a consultancy led organisation focused solely on the needs of the wireless
and wireline operators in the area of revenue assurance. TCS has performed
revenue integrity audits and delivered its products worldwide, identifying
in excess of $100million of additional revenue.
Service offerings include: revenue integrity audits, billing reconciliation's
and OTR003: 2001 preparation services. TCS' powerful product suite combines
to form an in-house or outsourced Revenue Integrity Warehouse, enabling Operators
to identify, quantify and rectify revenue leakage non-intrusively from switch
to bill for each and every CDR.
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Tertio Limited
Stand D1
www.telco-tertio.com
Product Launch:
Tertio will be launching the latest version of its leading convergent mediation
product, Evident 4.3, which brings new functionality and features designed
to simplify operators ability to measure convergent service usage.
Announcements:
Tertio will be announcing the completion of a trial of Evident mediation with
a major IP vendor, for Quality of Service billing for video content and VPN
services.
Conference/Presentations:
Paul Bassa, Evident Product Manager will present a Product Briefing session
at 1pm on Wednesday 24th April in Briefing Room 1.
Paul will also be available throughout Billing Systems 2002 to speak to the
press about Tertio and its position as the only supplier with demonstrated
experience in mediation for the 'triple play' - voice, data and content. Contact
Kathryn Andrews at Kaizo to arrange a briefing.
Tel: 0207 612 8532.
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TesCom
Stand C14B
www.tescom-intl.com
Demonstrations:
TesCom will be demonstrating their services in the area of billing, NMS (Network
Management Systems) & Telecom in general.
Events:
A prize draw will take place from their stand.
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uni-X Software
Stand C12
www.uni-X.com
Product Launch:
uni-X Software will be launching version 4.0 of its OpenInformer for Service
Providers software.
Conference/Presentations:
Andy Tatarzycki will be hosting the company's product presentation on the
theme of 'real-time mediation for real-time billing', where he will be talking
about the company's new product features including real-time billing and cross-billing.
The latter will enable carriers to maximise income from revenue sharing in
conjunction with multiple partners offering a range of different services.
(Tuesday April 23, 2:45pm Product Briefing Room 2).
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Upaid
Stand B17
www.upaid.net
Product Launch:
Upaid will be launching the company's m-payment solution portfolio at Billing
Systems 2002. This includes Upaid‚ PocketMoney, the company's real-time application
for mobile commerce. Upaid's end-to-end intermediate payment platform combines
software solutions enabling advanced mobile payment & roaming applications
with a powerful payment processing engine for real-time payment settlement
of sophisticated pay- as-you-use services.
Announcements:
In addition to launching the company's mobile payment solution portfolio at
Billing Systems 2002, Upaid will also be promoting the company's Prepaid Roaming
Partnership with MACH, the world's largest data andclearing settlement house.
Using Upaid's prepaid wireless roaming solution, Upaid‚ OnTheMove, MACH and
Upaid will offer one-stop, outsourced prepaid voice roaming services to mobile
operators via MACH's multi-lateral roaming hub. Representatives from both
Upaid and MACH will be available at the event to discuss the new roaming project.
About Upaid:
Upaid paves the way for the convergence of mobile communications and financial
services through its real-time software solutions for next-generation wireless
pay-as-you-use voice, data and payment services.
Upaid enables services from advanced prepaid voice roaming to real-time data
transactions, multimedia communications to unified payment applications, across
multiple data networks and telecom infrastructures (GSM, GPRS, CAMEL, CDMA,
TDMA, 3G).
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Vibrant Solutions
Stand E2
www.vibrant-1.com
Vibrant Solutions (formerly InformationView) is the pioneer and worldwide
leader in the Cost and Revenue Management market. Vibrant Solutions offers
the industry's most comprehensive portfolio of best-of- class software solutions
and strategic support services to enable service and content providers to
reduce network costs and maximize revenues. With a history of proven results,
Vibrant Solutions has generated over one billion dollars in savings for its
tier-one service provider customers in the past four years.
Conference/Presentations:
A Product Briefing session will be held at 4:45pm on Tuesday 23rd April
in Briefing Room 2.
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Vodafone TeleCommerce
Stand E21
www.vodafone-telecommerce.de
Billit is the integrated billing system for Content and Communications from
Vodafone TeleCommerce. Billit provides functions for e-services, content commerce,
voice and IP services. Telecommunications companies, service providers, malls,
online bankers, online insurance firms, multimedia enterprises and utility
companies can each use Billit for their specific purposes.
Conference/Presentations:
A Product Briefing session will be held at 5pm on Tuesday 23rd April in Briefing
Room 1.
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XACCT Technologies
Stand B8
www.xacct.com
XACCT's portfolio of products enables network managers to gain 100% visibility
into any point within the network infrastructure, in real time, delivering
raw usage data to OSS/BSS applications.
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