CEON Teams With Portal Software to Deliver Solution for `Triple Play' Service Providers; Service Bundling Captures Additional Services Revenue, Leverages Brand Identity.Business/Technology Editors REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2000 CEON Corporation(TM) today announced an alliance with Portal Software Portal Software was founded in 1985 as Portal Information Network, one of the first ISPs in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was founded by John Little. The company offered its own interface through modem access that featured Internet email. , Inc. (Nasdaq:PRSF PRSF Presidio of San Francisco (US National Park Service) PRSF Peoples Republic of San Francisco ), that will result in an integrated solution for service providers targeting bundled services including the voice, data and video "Triple Play." CEON will develop a direct interface between the CEON NetExpress(TM) service fulfillment software and Infranet(R), Portal's customer management and billing software. The combined solution will enable service providers to offer a dynamic bundling of customized services with real-time billing and activation. "We are excited to be working with CEON to develop a solution that offers integrated communications providers the ability to deliver value-added services A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls and fax transmissions. over IP," said Jill Kyte, vice president strategic alliances of Portal. "By working with CEON and Portal, integrated communications providers can deliver and monetize Web-based services with complete flow-through activation to provide services such as, voice for residential and business, video and cable TV and IP/ISP data services all delivered in real-time." This relationship combines CEON's extensive experience in managing and provisioning complex telephony and video services with Portal's industry leading real-time customer management and billing solution to enable the "Triple Play" for convergent service providers. The "Triple Play" allows service providers to leverage their brand identity to capture additional services revenue from business and residential subscribers. "The combination of the Portal and CEON applications will allow service providers to bundle, merchandise, capture orders, provision and bill for a wide range of telephony, CATV (Community Antenna TV) The original name for cable TV. It used a single antenna at the highest location in the community in order to deliver a quality signal to homes in areas with hilly terrain or other interference. and Internet services," said Steve Norris, vice president of business development, CEON Corporation. "Customers will be able to buy all the services they want and need over the Internet, 24 hours a day/7 days a week, without ever talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to their service provider. This is the OSS Oss (ôs), city (1994 pop. 62,141), North Brabant prov., S Netherlands; chartered 1399. It is a significant industrial center. Manufactures include meat products, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical equipment, and metalware. infrastructure the industry has been waiting for." NetExpress integrated with Infranet will provide a simpler way for subscribers to order new services with fully automated and Web-enabled processes -- including sales, order entry and management, problem handling, quality of service, invoicing and collection, as well as provisioning. Web-based self-service gives subscribers more flexibility in selecting a service bundle and offers the service provider a powerful merchandising opportunity to up-sell and cross sell new services. About CEON Corporation CEON Corporation (www.ceon.com) is a pioneer in delivering real eBusiness solutions that empower service providers to bundle, provision and manage multimedia services. CEON solutions integrate service providers' disparate OSS elements, resulting in rapid implementations, reduced service delivery time and improved customer retention. A privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. with headquarterS in Redwood City, CEON also has offices in Europe. About Portal Portal Software is building business infrastructure for the Internet. Based in Cupertino, Calif., Portal is a leading provider of customer management and billing software for Internet and emerging, next-generation communications services. The company's comprehensive real-time solution enables service providers to manage customers, support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services and collect money. Portal's customers include U S WEST, Qwest Communications
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