Amdocs and HP Announce Convergent Platform for Prepaid-Postpaid and Voice-Data Services for Mobile Service Providers.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 3GSM World Congress 2003 CANNES, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 18, 2003 Combination of Amdocs Enabler and HP Opencall OpenCall is a Hewlett Packard product range consisting of an extensive portfolio of network and telephony products. It is most commonly described as a suite of software and hardware applications which allow implementation of common telecom operator services such as Service Controller Enables Operators to Control Costs and Increase Revenue Amdocs (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : DOX DOX Design of Experiments DOX Direct Operational Exchange ), the world's leading provider of billing and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. , and HP (NYSE: HPQ HPQ Hewlett-Packard Corporation (NYSE) HPQ High Priority Queue ), today announced an advanced, pre-integrated platform that supports prepaid and postpaid billing for voice and data services. The solution is being demonstrated at the 3GSM World Congress conference in Amdocs booth B24, Hall 1 and HP booth A10, Hall 1. Amdocs and HP have cooperated to pre-integrate the carrier-grade rating and balance management capabilities of the Amdocs Enabler product with the real-time call and session control capabilities of the HP Opencall Service Controller. With support for both prepaid and postpaid billing, the convergent solution enables mobile service providers (MSPs) to introduce innovative services and service bundles with prepaid and postpaid payment options. The solution eases integration with existing intelligent network (IN) infrastructures, resulting in faster time to market and reduced total cost of ownership. "The integration of Amdocs Enabler with the HP Opencall Service Controller supports the robust, carrier-grade capabilities required by leading service providers," said Eli Gelman, Executive Vice President of Amdocs Management Limited. "As a unified prepaid-postpaid platform, the offering helps service providers lower total cost of ownership. Amdocs Enabler also improves customer loyalty by allowing the rapid introduction of new generation products and innovative rating schemes in both prepaid and postpaid environments. Working with market-leading partners such as HP, Amdocs continues to deliver the highest quality of service and products through joint innovation, experience and technology excellence." Through real-time call and session control, MSPs are able to authorize prepaid services before the voice or data session, to let users interact with services and, upon balance depletion, take appropriate action such as call termination or routing to a replenishment server. This capability helps prevent revenue leakage, which frequently occurs with other prepayment schemes. Similarly, with session control and real-time rating and balance management, MSPs can enable and control a subscriber's simultaneous use of both voice and data services, allowing concurrent usage of multiple services from a single account balance, while still reducing the risk of revenue loss or fraud. Sebastiano Tevarotto, Vice President and General Manager at HP Network and Service Provider Business Unit, said, "HP Opencall technology helps mobile service providers deliver innovative services to millions of subscribers. The combination of the Amdocs Enabler product and HP Opencall software allows our companies to help service providers simplify BSS See 802.11. BSS - Block Started by Symbol operations and improve customer care." About Amdocs Enabler Amdocs Enabler supports billing for next generation voice, data and content services. Amdocs Enabler is an integrated online-offline charging platform, allowing operators to support prepaid-postpaid convergence with one product. Amdocs Enabler is a proven carrier-grade, real-time product, pre-configured for rapid deployment and low cost of ownership. Designed for modular expansion, Amdocs Enabler is a fully integrated subset of the Amdocs Mobile platform, and can be enhanced with add-on components such as Commerce Payments, Partner Relationship Management (PRM PRM Partner Relationship Management PRM Parameter PRM Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (US State Department) PRM Partidul Romania Mare (Romania Mare Party) PRM Professional Risk Manager ) and Amdocs ClarifyCRM. About HP Opencall The HP Opencall Service Controller is a highly flexible, real-time call processing system designed for the creation, execution, and management of intelligent network (IN) services running in SS7-based (Signaling System 7) voice networks. The HP platforms bring a broad range of connectivity (ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. and ITU (International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Switzerland, www.itu.ch) A telecommunications standards body that is under the auspices of the United Nations. Comprising more than 185 member countries, the ITU sets standards for global telecom networks. TCAP/SS7 or TCAP/IP) and protocol options (Camel 2 and 3, WIN 1 and 2), with the ability to customize message sets rapidly. HP Opencall platforms support numerous service logic program (SLP (Service Location Protocol) An IETF standard used to announce and discover services such as printers and file shares on an IP network. Apple used SLP prior to Mac OS 10.2, but migrated to its Bonjour technology. SLP is also used in SIP-based IP telephony applications. ) functions and control interaction with interactive voice response (IVR (Interactive Voice Response) An automated telephone information system that speaks to the caller with a combination of fixed voice menus and data extracted from databases in real time. ) units and short message service centers (SMSC SMSC Short Message Service Center SMSC Standard Microsystems Corporation (New York) SMSC Spiritual Moral Social Cultural (education) SMSC Stephenville Medical and Surgical Clinic ). HP Opencall platforms are carrier-grade, high-availability, high capacity control points deployed in networks around the world. About Amdocs Amdocs is the world's leading provider of billing and CRM. With a 20-year track record of delivery excellence, our products empower major communications operators around the globe. We enable rapid time-to-market for next generation voice, content, commerce and application services, while enhancing subscriber loyalty and lowering total cost of ownership. We offer our customers flexible modes of delivery--products, solutions and outsourcing. For more information, visit our web site at www.amdocs.com About HP HP is a leading global provider of products, technologies, solutions and services to consumers and businesses. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing. HP completed its acquisition of Compaq Computer Corporation (company) Compaq Computer Corporation - The largest US manufacturer and vendor of IBM PC compatible personal computers and servers. Compaq was started in 1982 by three ex-Texas Instruments employees. Quarterly sales $2499M, profits $210M (Aug 1994). http://compaq.com/. on May 3, 2002. More information about HP is available at http://www.hp.com. This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include the possibility that the market for the sale of certain products and services may not develop as expected; that development and performance of these products and services may not proceed as planned; and other risks that are described from time to time in HP's Securities and Exchange Commission reports, including but not limited to HP's quarterly report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. for the quarter ended July 31, 2002 and reports filed subsequent to HP's annual report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. , as amended on January 30, 2002, for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2001. If any of these risks or uncertainties materializes or any of these assumptions proves incorrect, HP's results could differ materially from HP's expectations in these statements. HP assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements. |
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