[2] What the Industry is Saying About: Mantra.Business/Technology Editors REPEATING...to include SNR See signal-to-noise ratio. SNR - signal-to-noise ratio NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com --(BUSINESS WIRE) "For portal content providers, web-based corporate application providers, and service providers, the ability to support unique customer service personalization is becoming increasingly important. Mantra's IRX IRX Information Retrieval Experiment IRX Interactive Resources Executive will allow service creation based upon real-time customer demand via dynamic personalized services to become a reality instead of wishful thinking wishful thinking Psychology Dereitic thought that a thing or event should have a specified outcome . It is the right solution for multiple right markets at the right time." -- Frank Dzubeck President Communications Network The transmission channels interconnecting all client and server stations as well as all supporting hardware and software. Architects, Inc. www.commnetarch.com "The `killer app' for the next generation Internet See Internet2. service is not a single service -- but the personalization of products and services in response to a user's unique needs. This will create a tremendous demand for Mantra enabled services." -- Fred McClimans Chairman and former CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Current Analysis www.currentanalysis.com "The network of the future will support hundreds of millions of broadband users, and the ability to personalize services to these users is the key factor in service provider revenue generation. This kind of scale makes any kind of human planning intervention to manage per-service profits just impossible. Mantra has developed a way of introducing profit management into network and service operations management Operations management is an area of business that is concerned with the production of goods and services, and involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient and effective. , without introducing the delays and costs of human review. It's a powerful idea, and in an age of increased competition, a critical one." -- Tom Nolle President CIMI CIMI Certified Infant Massage Instructor CIMI Catalina Island Marine Institute CIMI Consortium for Interchange of Museum Information CIMI Canadian Institute for Market Intelligence CIMI Committee on Integrity and Management Improvement (US EPA) Corporation www.cimicorp.com "Mantra's IRX is the first solution that enables service providers to measure infrastructure usage as a cost-of-delivery component. This real-time measuring capability will enable service providers to evaluate the true cost of delivering services at any given moment and dynamically price services in a manner that maximize the profit potential of the network." -- Ray Keneipp Director/Principal Analyst The Burton Group www.tbg.com "The future of convergent telecommunications lies in value-added, enhanced and personalized services. We want to help our customers to self-provision in the best way that we can, so we need a tool that will help us leverage our existing infrastructure while supporting dynamic, real-time delivery. IRX is bringing our customers distinctive value, by helping us to dramatically reduce the time-to-market of rolling out new services, improve our operational efficiency and lower our operational costs. IRX provides us with the platform we need for the industry's first dynamic delivery of customer-driven, personalized services. When we are finished, our customers will be able to go to a web site and point and click their way to adding new services or change current services. Customers will be able to change call forwarding call forwarding n. A telephone service that enables a customer to have an incoming call automatically rerouted to another extension. Noun 1. assignments, add features to an existing line or even change the configuration of a hunt group. They will also be able to temporarily or permanently increase their bandwidth or their number of phone lines." -- Chuck Manto Senior Vice President of Operations Picus Communications www.picus.com "Much innovation is pouring into eBusiness data center technology today, including Web and content switching, many types of security, caching, network attached storage, storage area networking, traffic shaping Using methods to keep traffic flowing smoothly in a network. Although the term is often used synonymously with "traffic engineering," traffic shaping deals with managing the network moment to moment, whereas traffic engineering refers to the overall strategies employed in a network. , and other specialty technologies. What is missing is the means to manage these pieces in a manner that helps service providers make money. Mantra has taken a top-down approach Top-down approach A method of security selection that starts with asset allocation and works systematically through sector and industry allocation to individual security selection. in looking at the business processes involved in the delivery of customized services, and developing a product that infuses a company's business objectives into the operation of their eBusiness data center." -- Michael Howard
Principal Analyst and Founder Infonetics Research, Inc. www.infonetics.com "Mantra's IRX solution includes measuring infrastructure usage as a cost-of-delivery component for bringing broadband services to the user. It promises to dynamically supply service providers with a unique business-driven view of the delivery of applications, services and content. Mantra's dynamic service delivery solution hold the promise of provides the enabling software platform to unify and allocate the resources for the delivery of premium services on an end-to-end basis in real time." -- Tim Weis Senior Analyst Telechoice www.telechoice.com "Mantra IRX seems to me a business development VP's dream come true." -- Greg Howard Greg Howard (born 1964 in Washington, DC) is a Chapman Stick player from Charlottesville, Virginia. Originally a keyboardist and saxophonist, Greg took up the Stick in 1985. Over the years Greg has performed thousands of shows in Charlottesville and around the world. Principal Analyst HTRC HTRC Heat Transfer Recent Contents Group www.htrcgroup.com "We are excited to work with Mantra. We view the functionality from the combined solution to be critical in delivering on service level agreements and differentiated services Offerings that can be classified by type, or quality, of service. For example, a differentiated services network could prioritize real time traffic for a higher fee. that service providers must furnish in today's demanding environments. It's great to have the higher level software that leverages our advanced quality of service features." -- George Prodan Vice President of Marketing Extreme Networks www.extremenetworks.com "We saw a tremendous benefit in Mantra's solution and their domain knowledge helped us to bring our broadband products to the market faster with the capabilities that our customers need to execute their business plan." -- Pradeep Kaul Executive Vice President Hughes Network www.hns.com "Mantra's feature-rich, real-time service delivery infrastructure software enhances the value proposition of the Pliant 3000 Integrated Access Platform." - Craig Swinn Vice President, Sales and Marketing Pliant Systems www.pliantsystems.com "Mantra IRX has created a dynamic service delivery marketplace - the driving force that will enable the next generation of Internet applications and services. Mantra IRX is the software solution for providers for the twenty-first century." - Chairman and CEO An international telecommunications company Mantra, Intelligent Resource Exchange and IRX are trademarks of Mantra. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.071100/bb4 |
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