Portal Delivers New Release of Customer Management and Billing Software.CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 1998-- Infranet 5.5 Offers Major New Features, Faster Implementation, Enhanced Ease-of-Use and Integration With Leading Internet Application Platforms Portal Software Portal Software was founded in 1985 as Portal Information Network, one of the first ISPs in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was founded by John Little. The company offered its own interface through modem access that featured Internet email. , Inc., the leader in customer management and billing software for providers of Internet services, today announced availability of the newest version of Infranet(R) software, Infranet 5.5. This latest release adds significant new billing features, new and enhanced tools to streamline implementation and modification, easier customer management and seamless integration An addition of a new application, routine or device that works smoothly with the existing system. It implies that the new feature or program can be installed and used without problems. Contrast with "transparent," which implies that there is no discernible change after installation. with the industry's leading Internet application platforms. Infranet 5.5 combines a new level of billing flexibility with powerful tools that will enable customers to rapidly deploy new promotions, pricing plans and the next generation of Internet services. Portal's Infranet software is the industry's only customer management and billing solution to feature a true real-time architecture. The new capabilities of Infranet 5.5 build on the real-time functionality and scalable, extensible design that have differentiated Infranet from competing solutions since the very first release of the product. "Infranet 5.5 demonstrates the benefits of Portal's singular focus on the Internet," said Steve Sommer Sommer is a surname, from the German and Danish word for the season "summer". It may refer to:
New capabilities of Infranet 5.5 include: Billing Features -- Split billing: Splits charges or credits between multiple billing entities during the rating process. For example, providers can enable corporate customers to charge standard usage to the company and premium services to employees. -- Purchase order management: Manages billing activity of business subscribers via purchase order, which includes real-time customer notification when charges reach a specified threshold. -- Invoice system: Offers Java-based invoice design tool and a new API New API (also referred to as NAPI) is an interface to use interrupt mitigation techniques for networking devices in the Linux kernel. Such an approach is intended to reduce the overhead of packet receiving. for integration with third-party document production systems. Advanced Accounts Receivable accounts receivable n. the amounts of money due or owed to a business or professional by customers or clients. Generally, accounts receivable refers to the total amount due and is considered in calculating the value of a business or the business' problems in paying Management -- Reversal of individual billable events: Supports fine-grained adjustments of accounts receivable through the reversal of individual billable events including automatic handling of tax and general ledger General Ledger A company's accounting records. This formal ledger contains all the financial accounts and statements of a business. Notes: The ledger uses two columns: one records debits, the other has offsetting credits. adjustments. -- New accounts receivable interface: An intuitive graphical view of accounts receivable across hierarchical accounts simplifies management for complex corporate customers. Faster Implementation -- Enhanced pricing interface: Infranet's graphical tool for fast creation of pricing plans now features product creation wizards, enhanced dialogs and context-sensitive help Context-sensitive help is a kind of online help that is obtained from a specific point in the state of the software, providing help for the situation that is associated with that state. . Fast implementation of new or modified pricing plans is critical in the fast-changing Internet business. -- Custom configuration interface: A graphical tool allows providers to quickly and easily configure Infranet to implement custom business policies without programming. Internet Application Integration -- Infranet MCIS (Microsoft Commercial Internet System) A family of Web server software products from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT and works with Internet Information Server (IIS). 2.0/Site Server Manager and Netscape SuiteSpot Manager: Provides pre-integrated, real-time billing solutions for these leading Internet suites. -- Dial-up Registration Kits: Netscape Mission Control and Microsoft Internet Explorer See Internet Explorer. Administration Kit allow dial-up service providers to easily create customized versions of the leading Web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical Historically important browsers In order of release:
About Portal Software, Inc. Portal Software, Inc. develops and markets the industry's most scalable and adaptable customer management and billing software for providers of Internet services. Portal's software allows ISPs and other providers of Internet-based services to manage, at a new level, the core operations of their online business by responding to customer needs and market opportunities in real time. Target markets include Internet access See how to access the Internet. businesses; next-generation IP-based services such as Internet telephony and virtual private networks (VPNs); other consumer and business services such as content management, Web hosting, online gaming and entertainment. Portal's customers include leading Internet businesses worldwide such as U S WEST, Grolier Online, France Telecom, OzEmail, VeriSign and ICL (International Computers Ltd., London) The former name of Fujitsu Services, the European-centered arm of the global Fujitsu Group and one of the leading IT services companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. GamesZone. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Portal has offices in Chicago, Washington DC, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Hong Kong, Sydney and London. Information about Portal and its products can be found at http://www.portal.com. -0- Note to Editors: Portal and Infranet are registered trademarks in the United States, and Portal Software, the Portal logo, the Real Time-No Limits tagline are trademarks of Portal Software, Inc. CONTACT: Portal Software, Inc. Marsha Dillon, 408/343-4484 mdillon@portal.com or A&R Partners Kristin Burns, 650/363-0982 kburns@arpartners.com |
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