CTI Group's MagnaFlex Billing System Integrates BillSoft's EZTax Taxation Software.Business Editors & High Tech Writers LENEXA, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 2002 BillSoft, Inc., a leading provider of telecommunications taxation software, announced today that its EZTax(R) software application has been integrated with CTI (Computer Telephone Integration) Combining data with voice systems in order to enhance telephone services. For example, automatic number identification (ANI) allows a caller's records to be retrieved from the database while the call is routed to the appropriate party. Group's next generation convergent billing system, MagnaFlex(R). This integration will allow clients of CTI Group (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). :CTIG CTIG Counter Terrorism Intelligence Group CTIG Combat Targeting and Intelligence Group (Langley, AFB,VA Air Combat Command) ) to have a complete billing and taxation product. "CTI Group has a great telecommunications billing product and I'm very excited for the opportunity for us to work together and to provide a complete solution," said Timothy Lopatofsky, President of BillSoft. "We believe EZTax offers the highest performance and most accurate solution for telecommunications taxation on the market today. With the integration of EZTax and MagnaFlex, customers will find a seamless operation that is cost-effective," said Lopatofsky. "CTI Group is committed to offering the most complete and versatile billing management solution in the industry. EZTax, by virtue of its innovative technology and superior performance, clearly builds on that promise," said Bill Miller, Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of CTI Group. "EZTax not only supports twice as many tax types as competing products, but it also processes tax data exponentially faster. EZTax's advanced features add to MagnaFlex's already comprehensive list of benefits by providing easy and cost-effective management of all tax compliance and reporting duties." MagnaFlex, introduced in 2001, is CTI Group's pioneering system that fulfills the billing and customer management needs of traditional circuit-switched telephony providers as well as the evolving IP (Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. ) services industry. The highly scalable solution facilitates all avenues of billing and customer management including Web-based self-care and call center interaction. By supporting all major telecommunications formats -- wireline, wireless, broadband, IP voice, and data -- MagnaFlex allows service providers to bridge the gap between conventional billing and the competitive demands of a convergent, Web-based, IP, and wireless environment. MagnaFlex is offered as an outsourced service bureau option, or as a licensed product for in-house use. About BillSoft, Inc. BillSoft specializes in providing products that enhance billing systems and service bureau products. Clients of BillSoft can license the EZTax program or use BillSoft Online, their online service bureau. BillSoft also offers EZTax Viewer, and other PC-based tax programs. BillSoft offers EZTax on a wide array of platforms. EZTax is available for AS/400, Hewlett Packard's HPUX HPUX Hewlett-Packard Unix , Data General's DGUX DGUX Data General Unix , SCO UNIX An enhanced version of Unix System V Release 3.2 for Intel processors from SCO. In 1989, SCO Unix was introduced as a major upgrade to SCO XENIX with more security, networking and standards conformance. , Sun Solaris, AIX-RS/6000, AIX-Bull Escala and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. environments. EZTax is a complete telecommunications taxation package. EZTax processes tax rates for long distance calls, calling card services The software support for PC Cards. PC Card applications talk to Card Services. See PC Card. , debit card debit card, card that allows the cost of goods or services that are purchased to be deducted directly from the purchaser's checking account. They can also be used at automated teller machines for withdrawing cash from the user's checking account. services, local service, wireless, paging, voice mail, fax transmission, shipping, product sales and use, and internet usage. The EZTax program includes electronic interfaces to tax compliance filing organizations, and EZTax produces reports that allow clients to perform compliance filing in house. BillSoft provides monthly updates for its EZTax product. For more information, please visit the company's web site at www.billsoft.com. About CTI Group CTI Group (Holdings), Inc. is a premier worldwide provider of next-generation telecommunications billing and analysis software solutions for telecommunications service providers and their corporate customers. For enterprises, CTI Group offers a full array of traffic analysis, mediation, and post-billing call analysis tools; service providers benefit from MagnaFlex(R), the company's convergent Customer Care and Billing (CC&B) system that supports both circuit-switched and packet-switched telephony and data services. CTI Group's products are in daily use by some of the top service providers in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and the United Kingdom, and play a trusted role in managing telephony costs at major corporations around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, CTI Group maintains overseas offices in London, England. For more information, please visit the company's website at www.ctigroup.com. MagnaFlex(R) is a registered trademark of CTI Group (Holdings), Inc. 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