Esprit Telecom Selects Saville for Pan-European Billing and Customer Care Solution.BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 1998-- Saville to provide Esprit Telecom with pan-European solution for interconnect, wholesale and retail billing and customer care Saville today announced it has been awarded a major contract from Esprit Telecom for its Saville Convergent Billing Platform (CBP CBP competitive protein binding. (R)) and Saville Interconnect Billing Platform (IBP IBP (Fraunhofer) Institut für Bauphysik (Stuttgart, Germany) IBP Interactive Business Planner IBP Integrated Bar of the Philippines IBP International Buyer Program (tm)) products. Esprit Telecom is one of Europe's leading independent telecommunications companies and provides a wide range of long distance and international services through its pan-European, fiber-optic network. "Saville is delighted to be associated with a company as visionary as Esprit Telecom. Our track record of time-to-market and successfully delivering complex solutions throughout the world was a key factor in securing Esprit's business," said Tony Bethell, Saville's EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. vice president of sales and marketing. "We required a solution that meets our current requirements and also provides the basis for long-term growth as we build a consistent platform to support pan-European products and services," said Jim Reynolds, chief operations officer at Esprit Telecom. "Our requirements include the ability to support a broad range of services in multiple languages and multiple currencies, including the Euro. We also required support for complex customer hierarchies, tailored rate and discount plans, and convergent customer care and marketing throughout Europe. Saville's experience and proven time-to-market for complex solutions was a major factor in our decision." Esprit Telecom provides service directly to retail customers, as well as indirectly through resellers and other service providers. The company needed a combination of wholesale, retail and interconnect billing and customer care. This was a major reason for choosing Saville, Reynolds said. "To my knowledge, Saville is in a unique position in the market. Working with one company that can provide integrated solutions is of great benefit to Esprit Telecom and enables us to focus on our core business," Reynolds said. "Esprit Telecom's choice of Saville underscores our strength and presence in the global market for interconnect, wholesale and retail solutions. I look forward to a long-term working relationship with the company," said John Kiley For the baseball player, see . John Kiley (died 1993) was the organist at Fenway Park from 1953 to 1989 and contemporaneously for Boston Garden as well. He is credited with having discovered the Boston Garden's resident singer Rene Rancourt. , Saville's senior vice president of sales and marketing. About Esprit Telecom Esprit Telecom Group plc, a NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on and EASDAQ See European Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation. quoted company trading under the symbols "ESPRY" and "ESPR ESPR European Society of Paediatric Radiology ESPR Espressivo (music) ESPR Ethnicity and Social Policy Research Unit (University of Bradford) ESPR European Society of Paediatric Research " respectively, is one of the largest independent European telecommunications service providers. Established in 1992, the company has sales offices in 26 major cities in the United Kingdom, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, France, Belgium and Italy and operates a pan-European telecommunications network A telecommunications network is a of telecommunications links and nodes arranged so that messages may be passed from one part of the network to another over multiple links and through various nodes. that reaches more than 30 cities in eight European countries. For further information about Esprit Telecom, visit the company's Web site at www.esprittele.com. About Saville Founded in 1982, Saville is the leading provider of convergent billing and customer care systems for the telecommunications industry. Saville operates globally with offices in Canada, Ireland, the US, Singapore, Australia, the UK and Germany, and has more than 1,400 employees worldwide. Saville is a publicly held company, traded on the NASDAQ (US) market under the symbol SAVLY. For further information about Saville, visit the company's Web site at www.savillesys.com. This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements are set forth in Item 2 of the company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. for the quarter ended June 30, 1998, including risks associated with customer concentration, intense competition, product development, the management of rapid operations expansion and the availability of favorable tax treatment. CONTACT: Ed Marshall Beaupre & Co. Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most , Inc. (603) 436-6690 emarshall@beaupre.com or John Hart
John Hart (about 1711 or 1713–May 11, 1779), was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Jersey. Saville Systems (781) 270-6500 jhart@savillesys.com |
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