BT to Implement Amdocs' Flexible Bill Formatter Module to Support 28 Million Customers.Business Editors LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 2000 Amdocs (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : DOX DOX Design of Experiments DOX Direct Operational Exchange ), the world's leading provider of customer care, billing and order management solutions for the communications and Internet industry, announced that BT will implement Amdocs' Flexible Bill Formatter software to provide bills to BT's 28 million residential and business customers throughout the UK. The Flexible Bill Formatter (FBF FBF Forearm Blood Flow FBF Frankfurt Book Fair FBF Feedback Form FBF Frame by Frame (animation technique) FBF FleetBoston Financial Corporation (stock symbol) FBF Fundamental Baptist Fellowship ) is one of the components of Amdocs' award-winning Ensemble customer care and billing platform for communications providers. Commenting on the announcement, David Graystone, Head of Billing Development at BT said: "Integrating a 'new generation' bill formatting application into a large-scale multi-faceted billing environment such as BT's is no small task. We are impressed by the architecture of Amdocs' FBF with its flexible rule-base for defining input and output formats, and the ease with which FBF can meet the challenge of interfacing with our legacy systems." He added: "Amdocs' FBF will help us meet the challenging commercial and customer requirements of today's telecom marketplace. FBF's flexibility and table-driven design can support many essential and unique features of our billing portfolio such as producing bills in Welsh. Moreover, through the system's intuitive graphic user interface See GUI. , we can easily define new bill formats to match the differing and changing needs of our customers." Simon Cassif, President, Amdocs Europe, said: "Amdocs is delighted to be partnering with BT on this challenging project. The implementation of the Flexible Bill Formatter at BT will demonstrate the ability of the system to support the huge volumes of the world's largest communications companies Communications Company is a communications unit of the United States Marine Corps. They are part of Combat Logistics Regiment 37 , 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3MLG) and III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF). The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. , and to integrate into a complex billing environment in a truly modular standalone stand·a·lone adj. Self-contained and usually independently operating: a standalone computer terminal. manner." Flexible Bill Formatter facilitates the flexible design of new or 'personalized' bill formats, utilizing a rule-based, table-driven architecture without compromising on performance. The bill format design is performed online using an intuitive, user-friendly interface. FBF can support color graphics The ability to display graphic images in colors. , customized bills, logos, fonts and two-sided printing. About Amdocs Amdocs is the world's leader in customer care and billing systems for communications and Internet service providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. . Amdocs has an unparalleled success record in project delivery of its mission-critical products. With over 7,300 information systems professionals deployed worldwide, Amdocs supports a global customer base. For more information visit our Web site at www.amdocs.com About Ensemble Ensemble(tm) is Amdocs' platform for customer care, billing and order management. Ensemble supports convergent multi-service operations, including voice, data and IP services in wireline and wireless environments. The system utilizes a scaleable, multi-tier, client-server UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). platform and has been proven to support the high-volume performance requirements of leading carriers. About BT BT is one of the world's leading providers of telecommunications services In telecommunication, the term telecommunications service has the following meanings: 1. Any service provided by a telecommunication provider. 2. . Its principal activities include local/international telecommunications services, mobile communications, Internet services and IT solutions. In the UK, BT services 28 million exchange lines and more than 7 million Mobile customers. International direct-dialed telephone services are available to more than 200 countries and other overseas territories - covering 99% of the world's 800 million telephones. BT is rapidly expanding its presence overseas and has operations in more than 30 countries worldwide today. Further information about BT can be obtained by visiting our Web site at www.bt.com. |
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