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- XACCT and MaxBill Partner to Deliver Support
for Enhanced Network Services
MaxBill Integrates XACCT usage TM to Provide a Total Solution
for Service Providers
- Israel and Santa Clara, California – February 7, 2000 –
XACCT Technologies Inc., the leading provider of business infrastructure
solutions for IP networks, and MaxBill Ltd., an innovative provider
of cost-effective OSS Customer Care and Billing solutions for
the converging telecommunications and utilities industries, today
announced the formation of a strategic partnership. Under the
agreement, the two companies will integrate the MaxBill Customer
Care and Billing system with XACCT usage TM, offering service
providers a complete package for convergent services billing.
- The integration of MaxBill and XACCT usage TM will enable MaxRate,
MaxBill’s sophisticated rating engine, to harness billable
usage records captured and enhanced by XACCT’s innovative
IP Mediation technology. With this combined solution, Service
Providers will be able to define, offer and bill for enhanced
value-added services and creative service packages. Customers
will receive an invoice for their Internet services in formats
similar to the telephone bills, based on various transactions
and parameters, such as bandwidth, content and quality of service.
- “Moving into the next generation of Internet-based services,
traditional flat rate pricing and billing models are fast becoming
obsolete,” said Eric Gries, CEO of XACCT Technologies. “Service
Providers are looking for ways to develop and deploy new revenue-generating
services, and to price them in meaningful ways. We’re very
pleased to partner with MaxBill and provide our customers with
a complete solution enabling them do so, cost-effectively.”
- “As enhanced network services, such as IP telephony, streaming
multimedia and high-end data transfer emerge, the need for Service
Providers to have the tools to offer and bill for these services
increases dramatically. The power of XACCT usage TM to extract
meaningful usage records coupled with the strength of MaxBill
to incorporate these and additional usage records from other sources
into the overall functionality of MaxBill will deliver a comprehensive
solution for Service Providers to offer these and other diversified
and convergent services,” said Michah Himmelman, President
of MaxBill.
- Comprehensive Data for Billing XACCT’s flagship product,
XACCT usage TM provides a single point of interface between the
IP network infrastructure and the Customer Care and Billing applications
for usage data collection as well as automated service provisioning.
This multi-source, multi-layer mediation solution captures comprehensive
and accurate usage data from a multitude of network elements such
as routers, switches, firewalls, and application servers and refines
it into XACCT Detail Records or XDRs™ that are similar to
the Call Detail Records (CDRs) generated by telephone switches
(exchanges). Service providers can use XDRs to generate flexible,
innovative pricing models and usage-based bills.
By leveraging the end-to-end, automated User Account Provisioning
capabilities of XACCT usage TM service providers can implement
self-care or self-registration programs and thus lower call-center
costs. Automated provisioning also lets service providers benefit
from instant service activation and revenue capture.
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About MaxBill
MaxBill provides high quality, complete, cost-effective
financial solutions for service providers worldwide. MaxBill
delivers a convergent, carrier-grade platform to support the
advanced and evolving business needs of both traditional (wireline,
wireless, utilities) and next generation (3G, PLC and IP) services.
MaxBill combines a powerful and scalable next-generation billing
engine, service-enabling platform and customer-centric CRM powered
by universal workflows on a Universal Consolidating Platform
(UCP). MaxBill is unique in offering a comprehensive solution
that is both modular and rapidly deployable. Providers can achieve
service and revenue assurance, using one flexible, component-based
solution.
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About XACCT Technologies
XACCT Technologies, Inc., is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif.
The company develops a new class of intelligent software solutions
that enable Service Providers to design and execute innovative
revenue-generating services and programs.
* XACCT and its product have receive the following awards and
citations: Data Communications magazine recognized XACCT as
one of the “Top 25 Hot Startups of 1998” and named
XACCT usage ™ as one of the “Hot Products of 1999.”
* XACCT was one of the six companies named to the “Winners
Circle: Software Companies to Watch” in Telecommunications
magazine’s March 1999 issue.
* XACCT usage TM received “Most Innovative Billing Product”
recognition at the Billing Systems 1999 Conference and Exhibition
in April 1999.
* Internet Telephony magazine selected XACCT usage™ as
“Product of the Year” in the Billing category in its
November 1999 issue.
A privately held corporation, XACCT is funded by venture capital
investors. More information is available at http://www.xacct.com.
are trademarks of XACCT Technologies, Inc.
Contacts:
Ilan Solel
MaxBill Ltd
Tel:+44 208 324 1585
Fax:+44 208 324 1720
ilans@maxbill.com
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MaxBill
and Xacct - February 7, 2000