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Convergys Wins 'Best Integration Project' Award at TeleStrategies' Billing World 2003.


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Convergys Corporation (NYSE:CVG), the global leader in integrated billing, employee care, and customer care services, announced today that it won the "Best Integration Project" award as part of the third annual Billing World Excellence Awards at TeleStrategies' Billing World 2003.

Billing World magazine issues the award to recognize a company who has implemented successful product integrations. These integrations can include migrations from an old to a new system as well as a successful billing consolidation, migration, or a replacement project. Award applications addressed the implementation process, how client requirements were addressed, integration challenges and triumphs, third-party involvement, benchmarks, implementation time, and how the solution improved the clients' operations.

The awards panel took note of Convergys' successful implementation of its ICOMS product to replace the three billing systems used by a leading facilities-based cable operator to support bundled voice, video, and high-speed data services. The company completed 10 significant U.S. client implementations in the past year along with more than a dozen international implementations. Its flexible and scalable global product portfolio designed within Convergys' Next-Generation Framework demonstrates the company's responsiveness to operators' need for convergent billing and customer care products to support next-generation offerings.

"Providers today require extreme flexibility to deliver numerous billing options to their clients," said Jill Lucas Morgan, Publisher and Editorial Director, Billing World & 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.  Today. "Convergys' ICOMS has the capability inherent in its system to provide such choices."

"This award reflects not only the strength of Convergys' billing products, but also our well-defined, production-proven processes that ensure we complete project integrations on time and on budget," said Dave Dougherty, Convergys Executive Vice President, Global Information Management Group. "As operators face continuing pressure to show ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot).  for their capital and operating expenditures, Convergys' integrated billing and customer care products enable them to drive revenue growth by introducing new offerings and building loyal subscriber relationships faster and at lower cost. We would like to thank Billing World for this outstanding honor."

Convergys also was named a finalist at this year's Billing World event in the category of best overall company. Since the inaugural excellence awards were presented in 2001, Convergys has claimed top honors for best overall product (2002) and best wireless billing platform (2001).

This year's awards panel was composed of members of Billing World & OSS Today's editorial staff as well as industry analysts including Jason Briggs, program manager, Billing and Payment Application Strategies, and David Hawley David Hawley (1741–1807), Captain in the newly formed United States Navy and Privateer, fought in the first U.S. naval battle of the American Revolutionary War in 1776. Biography
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, senior analyst, Telecom Software Strategies, both of The Yankee Group (the Yankee Group, Boston, MA, www.yankeegroup.com) A major market research, analysis and consulting firm founded in 1970 by Howard Anderson. It provides general consulting and strategic planning in the computer and communications field. .

ICOMS is Convergys' end-to-end billing and customer care product for convergent voice, video, and data services. With ICOMS, service providers have unmatched control and flexibility to sharpen their competitive edge, expand market penetration Noun 1. market penetration - the extent to which a product is recognized and bought by customers in a particular market
penetration - the act of entering into or through something; "the penetration of upper management by women"
, increase revenues, and improve profitability. ICOMS provides operators with flexible, convergent statement options and scales quickly to support the rapidly growing number of subscribers and services.

Convergys products are based on its proven and innovative Next Generation Framework, a component-based architecture that provides unsurpassed flexibility, investment protection, and support for convergent communication services.

About Convergys

Convergys Corporation (NYSE:CVG), a member of the S&P 500 and the Forbes' Platinum 400, is the global leader in integrated billing, employee care, and customer care services provided through outsourcing or licensing. We serve top companies in telecommunications, Internet, cable and broadband services See broadband and broadband service provider. , technology, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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, and other industries in more than 40 countries. We also provide integrated, outsourced, human resource services to companies across a broad range of industries.

We bring together world-class resources, software, and expertise to help create valuable relationships between our clients and their customers and their employees. This commitment is validated by the more than 1.5 million individual bills our software produces each day to support more than 120 million subscribers, and by the more than 1.7 million separate customer and employee contacts we manage each day, both live and via electronic interaction.

Convergys employs more than 44,000 people in 47 customer contact centers and in our data centers and other offices in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Canada, Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. , Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Convergys is on the net at www.convergys.com, and has world headquarters in Cincinnati.

(Convergys and the Convergys logo are registered trademarks of Convergys Corporation.)
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