Daleen Technologies Expands into New Utilities Market.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)--Dec. 18, 2000 Utilipro, a leading provider of outsourced services for utility and related industries, selects BillPlex Plus(R) as an extension to its service offerings Daleen Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq:DALN), a leading provider of eBusiness infrastructure software for service providers, today announced that Utilipro has selected Daleen's Web-enabled billing and customer management solution, BillPlex Plus, to enhance the delivery of customized convergent billing services. BillPlex Plus is aimed at a broad range of utility, telecommunications and related industry customers. This agreement marks Daleen's initial foray into Verb 1. foray into - enter someone else's territory and take spoils; "The pirates raided the coastal villages regularly" raid encroach upon, intrude on, obtrude upon, invade - to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate; "This new colleague invades my the utilities market, a new market segment outside its traditional communication services sector. Utilipro offers a comprehensive set of outsourced services to utility and convergent communications marketers within 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. . Among the various services offered by the Atlanta-based company are back office, call center, billing, transaction handling, cash management and exception management functions. "By incorporating Daleen's Web-based billing solution into our current advanced billing offerings, we can now ensure that our energy and convergent communications customers will be able to generate accurate, timely and highly customized billing statements," said Andy Hopkins, Utilipro's president. "These customized statements will reflect each customer's activity and expedite ex·pe·dite tr.v. ex·pe·dit·ed, ex·pe·dit·ing, ex·pe·dites 1. To speed up the progress of; accelerate. 2. the payment process. The partnership also opens up new opportunities to provide our services to other industries." "Daleen's relationship with Utilipro positions the company for steady growth and expansion into new sectors outside of our core telecommunications business," said David Corey, Daleen's president and COO. "We are enthusiastic about this opportunity to offer our leading convergent billing and customer management solution to a new set of customers with diverse but complimentary needs for high-level, high-quality billing and customer service management." About Utilipro Utilipro Inc., based in Atlanta, is an industry leader in outsourcing for unregulated Adj. 1. unregulated - not regulated; not subject to rule or discipline; "unregulated off-shore fishing" regulated - controlled or governed according to rule or principle or law; "well regulated industries"; "houses with regulated temperature" 2. utility and related markets. Utilipro offers customer management (enrollment, billing, call center) and consulting services Noun 1. consulting service - service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services" designed to provide the highest levels of service to its customers. Utilipro's technology combines the best-of-breed solution providers with a custom transaction management solution to be one of the only providers of complete back-office solutions. Utilipro is an active participant in National Energy Marketers (NEM). NEM represents many of the top energy marketers and solution providers focused on competitive energy markets. For more information regarding Utilipro's services, visit the company web site at www.utilipro.com. 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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