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Axione,
Carriers' Carrier, Chooses Highdeal as the Pricing,
Rating and Billing Solution for its Services to Operators
Paris - November
27, 2007 - Highdeal,
the world's leading provider of pricing
and rating solutions, today announced
that Highdeal
Transactive® software suite has been selected
by Axione, a carriers' carrier specializing in the management
of local public broadband and high speed broadband services.
Now part of ETDE, a subsidiary of Bouygues Construction,
Axione was founded in 2003 and deployed France's first
fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network, "Pau Broadband
Country". The company is currently building
and operating eleven digital networks under public service
outsourcing contracts. Axione provides various
turnkey services to telecommunications operators, ranging
from network design and building to server hosting to
line provisioning to the maintenance and operation of
broadband (DSL, Wimax) and high speed broadband (FTTH,
FTTB) networks. Axione's customers include all leading
telecommunications operators as well as local ISPs in
every public service outsourcing district in France.
In
order to meet the requirements of its many customers,
Axione wanted to implement a single pricing, rating
and billing solution that was both flexible and scalable.
Highdeal was selected for several reasons. The
Highdeal Transactive® rating engine allows each
customer to develop its own pricing policy and to automate
usage calculation and resulting billing processes by
defining customized offerings that are best suited to
end users. In addition, this diverse pricing scheme
is hosted on a single software platform.
Axione
also wanted to be able to:
- Implement wholesale billing
for nationwide ISPs and/or detailed third-party billing
for local ISPsManage billing efficiently as part
of public service outsourcing
- Implement the reconciliation
process required to check the accuracy of invoices
received from major service providers, especially
when managing unbundling processes
Axione
was particularly impressed by Highdeal Transactive's
flexibility and functional adaptability to its business
requirements. This flexibility makes it easier to design
a wide range of offerings in very short timeframes.
Excellent cooperation between Highdeal and the integrator
Capgemini Telecom & Media as well as the trust established
with salespeople and support engineers were also instrumental
in Axione's decision.
- "Highdeal Transactive
was a natural choice because this software suite was
natively designed to manage the complexity of new
services. It allows us to offer a complete solution
matching our customers' needs, while at the same time
providing third-party billing capabilities.
We appreciate this tool because it goes beyond traditional
billing solutions in that it enables analysis of cash
flows associated with actually providing services
in order to make necessary correlations to check actually
collected revenues as part of our revenue assurance
process", said Roland Latrive, Chief
Information Officer of Axione.
- "Highdeal is proud
to have such a customer as Axione, whose increasing
reputation and sustained growth are particularly impressive.
Highdeal's selection by Axione once again confirms
our expertise in enabling operators to quickly develop
new services and increase their revenues", said
Eric Lavenir, EVP Sales EMEA at Highdeal.
About
Axione
Axione,
part of ETDE - a subsidiary of Bouygues Construction
- specializes in the building and operation of broadband
and high speed Broadband networks
for telecommunications operators and local communities
in the scope of their digital development projects on
the French territory. Axione is currently active in
France under 11 public service outsourcing contracts
signed with Dorsal Limousin, the departments of Sarthe,
Maine-et-Loire (1 and 2), Loire, Nièvre, Charente-Maritime,
and the cities of Pau (Very Broadband FTTH), Gonfreville
l'Orcher (Le Havre - high speed broadband FTTH), Quimper
and Tours. These outsourcing contracts have allowed
Axione to deploy FTTH, Wimax and DSL access networks
with a presence in over 500 subscriber connection
nodes (NRAs).
For
more information, visit www.axione.fr
About
Capgemini
Capgemini,
one of the world's foremost providers of Consulting,
Technology and Outsourcing services, enables its clients
to transform and perform through technologies. Capgemini
provides its clients with insights and capabilities
that boost their freedom to achieve superior results
through a unique way of working, which it calls the
"Collaborative Business Experience". Capgemini
reported 2006 global revenues of EUR 7.7 billion and
employs over 75,000 people worldwide. Telecom,
Media & Entertainment is the sector of Capgemini,
which has been dedicated to serving the telecom and
media markets for more than 30 years. Its business expertise
covers Consulting, Technology and Outsourcing services
for telecom and communication companies, on a national
and international scale. With
sector knowledge and strong partnerships, Capgemini
Telecom & Media develops solutions in areas such
as CRM, decision support systems, service platforms,
billing, operations support, and services dedicated
to content suppliers.
About Highdeal
Highdeal is the world's leading provider of Pricing
& Rating solutions. By delivering unconstrained usage-based business
models coupled with real-time, multi-party transaction management, Highdeal
solves the billing problem for service providers. Proven by 200 deployments
in more than 50 countries, the Highdeal
Transactive® software solution provides greater business agility and
lower TCO. From telecoms, Internet and media sectors, to transportation, logistics,
and financial markets, businesses across the service economy rely on Highdeal
to increase their competitiveness. For more information, visit www.highdeal.com.
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