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Arkadin Selects Highdeal for Pricing, Rating and Billing of their conferencing services
Paris, January, 7 2008 – Highdeal,
the world’s leading provider of Pricing & Rating solutions, today announced
that Arkadin Global Conferencing, the global provider of integrated audio and
data conferencing services, has implemented Highdeal Transactive® for the pricing, rating and billing of
Arkadin’s state-of-the-art, cost efficient conferencing services.
Founded
in early 2001, Arkadin is a conferencing service provider with operating centers
in over 20 countries across Asia, Europe and North America. Businesses and organizations
of all shapes and sizes and across all market sectors, particularly those with
geographically dispersed user bases, employ Arkadin’s services to help
facilitate their communications.
Arkadin deployed Highdeal Transactive in
France and will be launching the solution in a new country every three months. Arkadin is using Transactive to price, rate and bill the high-volumes of transactions generated by their audio and data services. Arkadin can provide pre-planned and last minute conferencing services for thousands of participants. In
addition to computing the audio and data tariffs, Highdeal Transactive is also
used to manage the billing codes for a specific conference call and calculate
the costs for conference recordings and technical support.
“Highdeal
provides unique pricing and packaging capabilities which help ensure the best
ease-of-use for our customers. Rating and billing is critical to us. Our various
audio and data services generate many different types of transactions that we
need to manage on a real-time basis. Highdeal also allows us to offer highly
personalised customer invoicing and reporting to our customers which is a major
asset for us” said Frédéric Commandeur, Arkadin CFO.
“We are thrilled to be providing Arkadin with our pricing, rating and billing solution. The impressive breadth of services that they provide and customers they have acquired is remarkable and we look forward to developing our relationship on an international level in the future.” added
Eric Lavenir, Sales EVP Highdeal.
About Arkadin
Arkadin
(www.arkadin.com) provides professional conferencing services that enable organisations
of all sizes, including Fortune Global 500 companies, to better communicate and
collaborate using customisable, cost-efficient, user-friendly solutions. With operating centres across Asia, Europe and North America, Arkadin’s core services, ArkadinAnytime, ArkadinEvent and ArkadinAnywhere, and best-in-class customer support allow Arkadin to virtually connect people anywhere around the world facilitating easy and cost-effective information sharing and discussion. Arkadin’s
unique global capabilities and localised service allow individuals to seamlessly
communicate using integrated audio and web conferencing services wherever and
however they choose.For more information, please visit www.arkadin.com.
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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