Portal and IBM Deepen Relationship with New Product Offering and Strategic Plans.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23, 2002 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. (Nasdaq:PRSF PRSF Presidio of San Francisco (US National Park Service) PRSF Peoples Republic of San Francisco ), a leading provider of customer management and billing software and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , a market leader in e-business infrastructure, today announced a milestone in their relationship, expanding the global Strategic Alliance the companies announced last year. The latest offering from the companies is the availability of Portal's Infranet(R) billing and customer management platform on IBM's high performance, standards-based IBM DB2 database software. Portal and IBM will together market and sell the integrated solution, which is designed to lower total cost of ownership and achieve a faster time to market for revenue generating services, to service providers worldwide. Portal and IBM are also announcing their plans to port the Infranet billing and customer management platform to the Linux operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. for use with the IBM eServer This article is about the IBM family of computer servers. For the open access electronic text archive, see EServer.org. IBM eServer was a family of computer servers from IBM Corporation. (1) zSeries(2) enterprise servers and IBM DB2 database. This approach will enable IBM and Portal to deliver scalability and reliability to services providers while helping reduce both the cost and complexity inherent in traditional distributed computing environments. More details on the IBM and Portal Linux on zSeries Linux on System z (or Linux on zSeries) is the preferred collective term for the Linux operating system compiled to run on IBM mainframes, especially zSeries and System z9 servers. initiative will be released at a later date. "These latest offerings with Portal allow us to offer more sophisticated and reliable billing solutions with a lower total cost of ownership through greater leverage of IBM's database and server technologies," said Rich Stomp, vice president, IBM Global Telecommunications Industry. "Together, IBM DB2 and the Portal platform offer a fast and flexible solution that can help create revenue generating opportunities for our customers in the competitive service provider market." "IBM's industry leading approach to technology infrastructure is rapidly being adopted by service providers worldwide," said Bob Vieraitis, vice president product marketing at Portal Software. "Expanding our relationship with IBM will enable us to enhance the performance and scalability characteristics of the Infranet platform and pave the way for true convergence The angle at which one meridian is inclined to another on the surface of the Earth. See also convergence. for Tier 1 service providers." Combining IBM's cost-effective and full-featured DB2 database with Portal's open standards-based Infranet billing platform provides significant competitive advantages and illustrates the latest chapter of the companies' strategic relationship. The joint solution helps speed time to market and revenue production for customers launching value-added services or enhancing traditional services, helps offer the reduced risk of a pre-integrated, carrier-grade, end-to-end infrastructure, and also helps deliver increased flexibility and lower cost of ownership. Service providers require such benefits to successfully launch next-generation video, voice, and data services. Infranet is a convergent billing and customer management platform created for communications and content providers. It enables service providers to deliver voice, data, content, and commerce services over wireline, wireless, cable, and satellite networks. A modular, platform-based solution, Infranet is designed to allow service providers to rapidly develop, price, and provision services while strategically managing customer usage and billing. IBM's DB2 software is the industry's first multi-platform, multimedia, Web-ready relational database management system relational database management system - relational database . Based on ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. / NSI See Network Solutions. NSI - Network Solutions, Inc. standards, DB2 is high performance software, ready to meet the demands of carrier-class enterprises and flexible enough to serve small and medium sized service providers. Leading the industry in customer satisfaction and quality, DB2 software together with Infranet help make customer management and billing information easily accessible, available, and secure. The Portal Software strategic alliance is another example of IBM's commitment to go-to-market with leading independent software vendors (ISVs) through the PartnerWorld for Developers program (www.developer.ibm.com). Under this initiative, IBM has signed agreements with recognized software leaders. These alliances target industries such as financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , retail, manufacturing, and solution segments including enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. , supply chain management, customer relationship management, and business intelligence. The goal is to provide developers with access to new customers and revenue opportunities through IBM's marketing, sales, and solutions resources. In return, developers commit to lead with IBM's middleware, server platforms, and services in offerings to customers. More news and information on IBM's Strategic Alliance Initiative and the PartnerWorld for Developers program will be available at developerWorks Live! (www-3.ibm.com/events/ibmdeveloperworkslive), IBM's technical conference for software developers, May 7-10 in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . About IBM IBM is the world's largest information technology (IT) company and provider of IT services today, as well as a preeminent technology provider to the world's telecommunications services industry. Working directly with its telecommunications customers, IBM helps them become more competitive with innovative solutions for e-business. These solutions comprise the full range of IBM capabilities including consulting, software, hardware, research, and implementation services. About Portal Software, Inc. Portal Software develops customer management and billing software for communications and content service providers. Portal's real-time, convergent platform enables its customers to rapidly create, deploy, and bill for services with flexible business models. Portal's software is licensed by a majority of the world's largest communications providers to deliver voice, data, video, and content services across wireless, wireline, cable, and satellite networks. Customers include Vodafone, AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Time Warner, Deutsche Telekom Deutsche Telekom AG (ISIN: DE0005557508, FWB: DTE, NYSE: DT, LSE: DEU, TYO: 9496 ) (abbreviated DTAG) is a telecommunications company headquartered in Bonn, Germany. It is the largest telecommunications company in Germany and in the EU. , NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform , WorldCom, China Telecom, Reuters, Telstra, Sprint, China Mobile, Telenor Mobil, and France Telecom. Note to Editors: Infranet is a U.S. registered trademark, and Portal and the Portal logo are trademarks of Portal Software, Inc. All statements made in this press release are made only as of the date set forth at the beginning of this release. Portal undertakes no obligation to update the information in the event facts or circumstances subsequently change. (1) The IBM eServer brand consists of the established IBM e-business logo with the descriptive term "server" following it. (2) IBM, the e-business logo and z Series are trademarks of IBM Corporation. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds |
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