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Highdeal continues to demonstrate
Pricing & Rating leadership with exceptional growth in
2006
Highdeal reinforces
market leadership position with 33 new customer wins, 40%
revenue growth and a double digit profit margin
London,
New York and Paris – January 31, 2007 - Highdeal,
the world’s leading provider of pricing and rating solutions,
has reinforced its position as market leader by announcing
yet another bumper year in 2006, with 33 new customer wins,
40% increase in revenue and an impressive 13% profit margin.
Highdeal ends 2006 with over 170 deployments in more than
50 countries, with its technology being used by a range of
fast growing start-ups and well established Tier one service
providers.
Repeated success in high-growth
markets
In 2006, the Highdeal Transactive® platform proved its
uniqueness and versatility with implementations spanning a
range of high-growth markets including MVNOs, WiMAX, M2M,
IP and on-demand services. Highdeal also entered into other
markets beyond telecoms, including travel and transportation,
telematics and logistics.
While more than half of the contracts signed in 2006 were
for broadband and on-demand providers, Highdeal also continued
to build momentum in the wireless sector. Numerous new deals
were signed with leading, innovative service providers around
the world, such as Videotron, SFR Vodafone and Maroc Connect,
supporting services such as quad-play and MVNO.
Successful partnership strategy
Leading Network Equipment providers continued to recognize
Highdeal for its product excellence. This was marked by Highdeal’s
extended geographic reach into Asia and Latin America through
strategic partnerships with Alcatel-Lucent. Reinforcing its
partner strategy, Highdeal signed seven new partnership and
reseller agreements in 2006 and achieved the “Certified
for SAP NetWeaver™” status.
Industry Recognition
Highdeal was also recognised in 2006 for its product strength
and overall market leadership and innovation, with the Yankee
Group identifying Highdeal as the fastest growing billing
and rating vendor in the market. Highdeal was further recognised
in OSS Observer’s December 2006 report has having the
highest number of global signed contracts. Highdeal also won
numerous, prestigious industry awards, including the IIR World
Industry Awards for the “Most Innovative Billing Product”
and the Red Herring 100 award as one of the most promising
technology companies.
“We are extremely proud of
the repeated annual success that Highdeal has experienced
since our beginning in 2000. We are benefiting from a rock-solid
product strategy and market insight, dependable sales channels
and a firm commitment to our customer needs. We are highly
confident that 2007 will be an ever more successful year which
is reflected in our plans to significantly increase our investments,
headcount and focus on sales and marketing activities.”
Eric Pillevesse, CEO, Highdeal.
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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