Amdocs Wins "Best Converged Billing Product" Award

The Amdocs solution supports all aspects of convergence, from customer payment method (pre- and postpaid) to services (e.g. voice-data-content) and lines of business, including fixed-line/mobile and telephony-satellite-cable. The award finalists also included Comverse, Highdeal and Martin Dawes. The Convergence World Awards were presented yesterday at a reception on the exhibition floor of the C5 World Forum event that is taking place in Milan.

The Amdocs Next-Generation Convergent Billing Solution is an end-to-end mediation, rating and billing platform. The solution leverages the revenue management products of the Amdocs 7 suite which was introduced in January, 2007. Based on an innovative architecture that is comprised of a single customer data management facility, invoicing engine, comprehensive product catalog, and a powerful rating engine, the Amdocs Next-Generation Convergent Billing Solution speeds time to market for innovative service bundles while increasing operational efficiencies and savings. With built-in 3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project) compliance support for next-generation networks such as IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) capabilities, the Amdocs solution makes integrating with third party software easier, helping to lower providers' total cost of ownership.

Only recently, Amdocs 7 was selected by PT Excelcomindo Pratama Tbk.( XL), a leading mobile communications service provider in Indonesia and part of the TM group Malaysia, for convergent prepaid-postpaid billing across XL's wireless, broadband Internet and Internet Protocol (IP) based voice as well as offerings for next generation networks such as IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem).

"The Amdocs Next-Generation Convergent Billing Solution gives us advanced tools to ensure we can offer a unique customer experience, attract millions of new customers and profit from the evolution to next generation networks and services," said Joy Wahyudi, director of commerce at XL. "As we transform into a multi-play provider, Amdocs is also helping us minimize costs and risks along the way."

"Amdocs demonstrated, through its customer testimonials, the high quality of its converged billing product," said Stuart Willet, publisher of Convergence World Magazine. "Its solution helps providers improve service levels and offer an innovative and intentional customer experience."

"With the recent launch of the Amdocs 7 suite, we now offer the first industry-specific software suite that enables service providers to achieve and profit from convergence -- offering customers access to any service, over any network, at any time and on any device," said Michael Matthews, chief marketing officer at Amdocs. "Within the revenue management offering of Amdocs 7, the Next-Generation Convergent Billing Solution now boasts enhanced functionality to support cable and multi-play" - Amdocs.