BillMax's Newly Enhanced User Interface Allows Easy Integration With CD Sign Up Companies.Business Editors & High Tech Writers Fall ISPCON ISPCON Internet Service Provider Convention (The Golden Group, Inc.) 2000 FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 6, 2000 The iSpark Group will introduce BillMax Version 1.5.3 with a new tool to ease integration with most CD signup companies at this year's Fall ISPCON held in San Jose, November 8-10 of 2000. After three years of proven success for BillMax and clients worldwide using the product, The iSpark Group will introduce new features designed to address the billing challenges experienced by ISPs, ASPs, BSPs, web hosts, cable systems and other Internet businesses. BillMax is one of the only turnkey billing applications that offers 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). platforms (Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, BSDI BSDI - Berkeley Software Design, Inc. ), 90% of the source code with a license purchase, and a complete ASP model outsourcing service. The outsourcing service allows companies to have an advanced billing and customer care solution for their customers without the up-front license and hardware costs, excess overhead costs overhead costs see fixed costs. , and the labor intensity of performing the billing functions. Customers include Alabanza, WebEntrada, Nationwide Internet, Global One (a division of France Telecom), AmericanISP, and Internet Ventures. BillMax 1.5.3 has extended the features of the BillMax User Interface (BMUI) to allow for on-line sign-up and registration of offered services. Furthermore, existing subscribers may now add, change or remove users and services right through a web interface. This enhanced BMUI has allowed easy integration with Rockstar's Gearbox, Friendly Tech's FriendlyWeb, iddGroup's iSign, and Usefulware's Connection Magic. The BMUI also supports integration with any sign-up applications that are based off of the IEAK IEAK Internet Explorer Administration Kit (Microsoft) sign-up format or utilizes web forms for account registration. Created in 1997, BillMax was a regional Internet service provider's answer to the headaches of billing and tracking customers. That company is Fort Worth-based The iSpark Group. The iSpark Group now markets and sells the product internationally to many markets. The iSpark Group is also a software development and consulting firm, specializing in network design, implementation and administration with an emphasis on security. Clients have included Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, railroad system in much of the United States (except the Northeast) and in S Canada, created in 1995 from the merger of Burlington Northern Inc. and the Santa Fe Pacific Corp. (see Santa Fe RR). , Union Pacific Resources, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram The Fort Worth Star-Telegram is a major U.S. daily newspaper serving Fort Worth and the western half of the North Texas area known as the Metroplex. Its area of domination is checked by its main rival, The Dallas Morning News , Hitachi, the Dallas Transit System, Netscape Communications of California and Executive Telecard of Colorado. |
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