Daleen Announces Latest Version of Industry Leading Customer Management and Billing Software.Business Editors BOCA RATON Boca Raton (bō`kə rətōn`), city (1990 pop. 61,492), Palm Beach co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic; inc. 1925. Boca Raton is a popular resort and retirement community that experienced significant industrial development in the 1970s and 80s. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 15, 2000 BillPlex(R) Plus 4.0 includes a comprehensive web-based customer self-care framework, electronic bill presentation and significant security enhancements Daleen Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq:DALN) announced the release of BillPlex Plus 4.0, the industry's most powerful billing and customer care software solution, offering significant expansion of internet capabilities to include an extendible self-care framework and important new enhancements for security, taxation, revenue assurance, and payment options. This introduction solidifies Daleen's position as offering the most powerful and comprehensive software solution for addressing customer management, billing, web enabled customer self-care and service activation requirements in a single, integrated product suite. In response to the tremendous growth of the Internet, Daleen's service and content provider's are demanding that their billing and customer care solutions seamlessly interface to their end-user customers through the web. The new release of BillPlex Plus 4.0 is built upon Daleen's patented technology, which provides the highest level of flexibility and integration, supporting any service offering over any network in real time. Daleen established itself as a pioneer when it introduced BillPlex market-based software packages, the industry's first pre-configured, off-the-shelf customer management and billing packages tailored for specific vertical market requirements. With the new BillPlex Plus 4.0 release, Daleen enhances its software foundation with an enhanced Internet framework and web-based capabilities that will be tailored for the ICP (1) (Internet Cache Protocol) A protocol used by one proxy server to query another for a cached Web page without having to go to the Internet to retrieve it. See CARP and proxy server. (integrated Communications Provider), IP/Data Services, CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) An organization offering local telephone service that is not one of the traditional telephone companies. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 allowed competition to the incumbent telcos (ILECs), enabling new companies (CLECs) (Competitive Local Exchange), ASP (Application Service Provider) and Broadband services markets. Through the delivery of pre-configured, industry-ready solutions, Daleen's customers benefit from rapid time-to-operation while integrating existing enterprise and 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. applications to maximize their return on investment. The latest version of BillPlex Plus 4.0 incorporates many new and enhanced features. Several of the new features include: -- Internet enabled Self-care -- Electronic Bill Presentment See EBPP. (EBP EBP Evidence Based Practice EBP Enterprise Buyer Professional EBP Education Business Partnership EBP European Business Programme EBP Efficiency Bandwidth Product EBP Electronic Billing and Payment EBP Extended Base Pointer EBP Error Back Propagation ) for viewing bills via the Internet -- Self-care framework for extending functionality to include online ordering, multimedia product catalogs, account creation and management, and powerful Internet marketing See Internet advertising. for up-selling and cross-selling -- Enhanced Security -- Access control for eCommerce transactions, minimizing customer risk for engaging in online transactions -- Access control by geography or market type for enhanced control of CSR (1) (Customer Service Representative) A person who handles a customer's request regarding a bill, account changes or service or merchandise ordered. Agents in call centers are known as CSRs. See call center. (customer service representative), administrative and manager data access privileges -- Enhanced taxation support -- Advanced rules based Using "if-this, do that" rules to perform actions. Rules-based products implies flexibility in the software, enabling tasks and data to be easily changed by replacing one or more rules. taxation support for complex taxation requirements, reducing liability for multi jurisdiction tax regulations -- Connection number taxation support for calculating taxes based on access lines -- Revenue Assurance -- Contract enforcement providing the ability to automatically charge a penalty when a contract term is violated -- Flexible Payments -- Installment billing for extending non-recurring charges over a designated number of months to meet customer requirements -- Enhanced Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) -- Subscriber provisioning and maintenance API component enables creation and maintenance of subscribers from applications external to the BillPlex client for improved flow through and data integrity -- Service provisioning and maintenance API component enables creation and maintenance of services from applications external to the BillPlex client for improved flow through and data integrity "We are very excited about the enhancements in BillPlex Plus 4.0," said Jim Daleen, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and chairman for Daleen Technologies. "Daleen continues to set the industry standard for flexibility, convergence, integration and rapid time-to-operation, providing a future proof solution to address the ongoing, dynamic shifts in technology and service offerings. As service providers evolve their business models and provide enhanced services, they will benefit from cost efficiencies obtained through BillPlex Plus 4.0 by empowering end-users to access billing, account management and new product information through the web. Providers implementing BillPlex Plus 4.0 solutions will reap the rewards of shorter implementation times, faster time to market and lower implementation costs while delivering enhanced security, new flexible payment options and a web enabled solution to their customers." About Daleen Founded in 1989, Daleen (Nasdaq: DALN) is a leading provider of solutions that bond businesses and customers in the digital economy. Daleen's software solutions provide mission critical customer and partner management support for businesses that offer voice, data, web and applications hosting services over packet and circuit-switched networks. Daleen's eBusiness software products include eCare, for Internet-self care and partner management, BillPlex(R), for customer management and billing, and SwitchFlow(TM), for service activation. The company distributes its eBusiness software products throughout the world via Business Alliance Partners and other leading certified systems integrators including, Business Edge, Cap Gemini, Danet, Ernst & Young, Prolan pro·lan n. 1. Human chorionic gonadotropin. No longer in scientific use. 2. Either of two hormones of the pituitary gland, luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone. No longer in scientific use. and Unisys. Daleen is an active participant and provides leadership in industry forums such as the Global Billing Association, Ordering and Billing Forum (OBF OBF Ordering and Billing Forum OBF Oregon Bach Festival OBF Oregon Brewers Festival (Portland, Oregon) OBF Open Bioinformatics Foundation OBF Out of Box Failure OBF Office of Budget and Finance OBF Ohio Bible Fellowship ), 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. Data Record (IPDR IPDR Internet Protocol Detail Record Organization IPDR Internet Protocol Detail Record IPDR International Project Development Roadmap (Canada) IPDR Internal Preliminary Design Review IPDR Individual Program Data Records ) working group, TeleManagement Forum and the Application Service Provider (ASP) Industry Consortium. In addition to its Boca Raton, FL headquarters, Daleen has regional offices located throughout 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. , and Toronto and London. For additional information regarding Daleen's products and services, visit the company web site at www.daleen.com. Forward Looking Statements. All statements other than statements of historical fact included in this release are forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. . When used in this release, words such as "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "intend" and similar expressions, as they relate to the Company or its management, as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to the Company's management, identify forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors including, but not limited to: the effect of business and economic conditions; the impact of competitive products and pricing; and capacity and supply constraints or difficulties. Such statements reflect the current views of the Company with respect to future events and are subject to these and other risks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc the operations, results of operations, growth strategy and liquidity of the Company. |
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