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Highdeal Selected as Finalist for Billing & OSS World 2008 Excellence Awards
New
York, April 22, 2008 — Billing & OSS World magazine and Billing & OSS World Conference & Expo announced today that Highdeal has been selected as a finalist to receive the Billing & OSS World 2008 Excellence Award for their product, Highdeal Transactive® in the Best Revenue Management Solution category. The awards recognize the leaders — vendors, service providers and integrators — in
the development and deployment of billing and OSS technologies and solutions.
Nominations
were open to participating exhibitors, sponsors, speakers and attendees of the
Billing & OSS World 2008 Conference & Expo, April 29-May 1, in Chicago.
Having received more than 90 submissions, a select judging panel of experts from
the billing and OSS community narrowed the field to three finalists per category,
including Highdeal.
The
winners will be announced by Billing & OSS World Group Publisher Mike Saxby and Editor In Chief Tim McElligott at a special ceremony at the Billing & OSS World 2008 Conference & Expo
on April 30. Awards will be given in the following categories:
- Best OSS Transformation
- Best Service Assurance Solution
- Best Service Fulfillment Solution
- Best Customer Loyalty Program
- Best Customer Care Solution
- Best Revenue Management Solution
- Best Billing Solution
- Best New Product
Billing & OSS World 2008 Excellence Award winners and runners-up will be featured in an upcoming issue of Billing & OSS
World magazine and on the companion Web site, www.billingworld.com.
“Billing & OSS World congratulates all the finalists in this contest. The response to the program was outstanding and the competition intense, so making the cut is by itself a significant achievement and an acknowledgement of Highdeal’s pursuit of excellence in billing and OSS,” said
Saxby.
Founded
in 1996 in the R&D labs of France Telecom and spun off in 2000, Highdeal recognized the requirements the multiservice world would come to have on the billing area and developed a unique transactional, “service agnostic” pricing
and rating engine, Highdeal
Transactive®, which enables service providers to maximize revenues by
giving them the ability to rapidly introduce convergent services with mutli-party
billing and settlement business models.
With
an impressive list of partners including Nokia Siemens, Motorola, Ericsson, Alcatel,
SAP and HP and over 200 customer deployments in over 50 countries, Highdeal has
established itself as one of the world’s leading providers of revenue
management solutions.
Billing & OSS
World 2008 Excellence Award finalists were selected by an independent judging
panel, including Ian Scales, independent OSS/BSS journalist and analyst; Jeffrey Cotrupe, CEO, MarketPower LLC; Shira Levine, senior research analyst, OSS/BSS, IDC; Sheryl
Kingstone, director, enterprise research and customer centric strategies, Yankee
Group; Ed Shanahan, partner, Excelerate Partners Inc.; Paul Hughes, vice president,
enabling technologies, Yankee Group; Dan
Baker, research director, OSS/BSS KnowledgeBase, Dittberner Associates Inc.; Susan McNeice, senior analyst, Stratecast; and
members of the Billing & OSS World editorial team.
For
more information on the Billing & OSS World 2008 Excellence Awards, visit www.billingworld.com/excellenceawards.
Billing & OSS
World magazine
Since
1995, Billing & OSS World magazine has been a primary source for coverage and analysis of telecommunications billing and operations support systems — from service creation, provisioning and customer management to fraud management, billing, revenue assurance and more. Published six times a year, Billing & OSS
World provides in-depth analysis for executives and billing professionals at
communications services provider organizations worldwide.
Billing & OSS World Conference & Expo
Celebrating
its 16th year in 2008, the Billing & OSS World Conference & Expo is the premier conference and exposition focusing on the business and operations support systems requirements for next-generation communications networks. Billing & OSS
World 2008 will be held April 29-May 1, at the Hyatt McCormick Place in Chicago.
There will be five simultaneous tracks of education covering OSS transformation,
service creation and delivery, service assurance, revenue assurance, billing
and payment processing, customer loyalty programs and customer experience management.
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