Size
Matters
©Mobile
Europe – Keith Dyer – June 2007
One
such example that takes a bit of this, a bit of that, and
puts it together is the partnership announced… between Ceon,
a provider of product lifecycle management software; Highdeal,
a provider of pricing and rating solutions; and Visionael,
which provides IP service automation and delivery management
software and services. These three companies joined forced
to announce a joint end-to-end B/OSS solution. The combined
solution is intended to allow service providers to launch
and manage new and combined multi-play offerings quickly and
cost-effectively.
Operators
face significant challenges when implementing service bundles
that might include video content, mobile transactions on top
of the data and voice services. These include high customer
expectations for service quality, and the need to manually
make wholesale changes every time a new offering is introduced.
The solution includes components for service and resource
inventory, sophisticated pricing configuration, product lifecycle/catalog
management, provisioning and rating/billing.
"Introducing
new products quickly and efficiently will require operators
to configure, manage and process technical and commercial
product data more seamlessly across all the systems that support
their key business operations," said Peter Burke , CEO
of Ceon. "The combined solution from Visionael, Highdeal
and Ceon eliminates inconsistencies and gaps in critical resource,
pricing and product information, and provides all the key
components to enable operators to rapidly deploy new offerings."
From
a "billing" point of view, the solution uses Highdeal's
Transactive product, which can be used for defining price
plans in the rating application, and rating utilized services.
Highdeal
high-ups think that this best of breed solution is the right
way for companies like themselves to proceed - for themselves
and operators. "Our joint best-of-breed solution
provides operators with the right toolset to react rapidly
and efficiently to market demands for new and innovative services,
products, and packages," said Eric Pillevesse, Co-founder
and CEO of Highdeal.
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