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BT is Europe's largest and most successful wholesaler and a key enabler of growth and innovation for the communications industry and UK plc. BT Wholesale is focused on meeting the needs of 700 CP customers in the UK and on leveraging BT's economies of scale and capability to help them succeed.
BT Wholesale contributes over 20% of BT Group's revenue and profit through a portfolio of transit, data, broadband and value added services and a growing Managed Solutions business. It is is rapidly becoming a next generation communication business, building on BT's 21st century network platform strategy and an active programme of portfolio renewal for the future and Web 2.0 world.
The Network as a Platform – for the Connected Life
Cisco plays an ever-expanding role in helping service providers transform their networks into efficient next-generation platforms capable of delivering many services to many screens. By bringing together entertainment, information, communication and personalization, service providers are competing to capture new subscribers and gain more revenue from existing ones.
The emergence of the network as a platform is changing the entire value chain and placing the network squarely at the center of innovation. The explosion of devices will be fueled by more and more services and tasks being handled online, from phone calls to personalized searches to downloading videos, games and other forms of entertainment.
The role of the network is emerging as a secure platform for delivering the customized and personalized experience that 21st century users expect - whether that means delivering new services as a carrier, boosting productivity for businesses of any size or consumers looking for real-time, personalized entertainment and services.
Cisco is leading the transition to a network-centric technology environment. By combining its core strength (IP) with intelligence, the company is creating a powerful platform that will serve as the basis for the convergence of data, voice, video and mobile communications in a secure, integrated architecture.
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq 'MSFT') is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realise their full potential. The UK subsidiary was formed in 1982 and currently employs over 1,500 people. Our main functions are service and support, sales and marketing for our UK customers and partners. The headquarters are based in Reading, with satellite offices in central London, Edinburgh, Manchester and Dublin.
Through our seven core business units: Windows Client, Information Worker, Microsoft Business Solutions, Server & Tools, Mobile & Embedded Devices, MSN and Home & Entertainment, Microsoft solutions offer the greatest potential to serve our partners and customers.
We continue to be committed to building software and services that will provide the most trustworthy computing environment for our customers and the industry. We also work with industry, communities, and governments to conduct our business in a way that helps advance social and economic well-being. We actively support our community by undertaking charitable projects in the UK by providing IT skills and training to disadvantaged young people and adults.
The role of Microsoft in the UK is clear: we want to champion technology, as the greatest enabler ever; enabling all people to learn, work and play better.
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Aepona provides software products and solutions to Telco's globally, empowering them to fully participate in the new, collaborative world of Web 2.0 and realize the full potential of their network assets.
Aepona's technology provides the crucial bridge between the Web / IT domain and the Telecoms domain, enabling new Telco business models, creating new channels to market and allowing thousands of new high value, composite services to be delivered to a mass market of niche consumers.
Aepona's solutions have been chosen and deployed by Tier 1 Telco's such as France Telecom, Sprint, Bharti Airtel, Telus, Vimpelcom and KPN.
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprise and governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications services for people at home, at work and on the move.
With operations in more than 130 countries, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The company has the most experienced global services team in the industry, and one of the largest research, technology and innovation organizations in the telecommunications industry. Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 17.8 billion in 2007 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located in Paris. For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on the Internet: www.alcatel-lucent.com
Detica specialises in helping government and corporate clients collect, manage and analyse information to reveal intelligence, maintain security, manage risk and strengthen resilience in today's complex operating environment.
By combining technological innovation with in-depth industry knowledge, we have developed a range of world-class solutions centred on our expertise in information exploitation, security and resilience, threat intelligence and customer insight. In these areas, our business and technical consultants offer a range of services from strategy formulation through people and process change to the development, delivery and support of software and hardware technology. Our understanding of today's information-intensive challenges has also led us to develop a range of specialist services and products based on our unique intellectual property.
Detica delivers projects of significant scale across government, financial services and telecoms markets in the UK, US and continental Europe. For further information, please visit www.detica.com.
By enabling more content, mobility and capabilities than ever before, Intel gives you the advantage in a rapidly changing world. With advanced silicon building blocks, industry standard platforms, modular infrastructure solutions and ecosystem support, Intel can help you deliver a more compelling digital lifestyle. Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom
Infonova Implementations to-date
The Infonova Next Generation BSS is a proven Order-to-Cash platform that has been implemented for fixed line incumbents, tier 2 aggregators / attackers, cable operators, mobile "MVNO" bureau, utilities and Content players. These implementations illustrate capabilities to support highly complex product & bundling billing scenarios with online rules based configuration, for example: event, usage, royalty sharing, micro, geographic band & time of day charging, alacarte, prepaid, post paid and mostly paid.
Case studies attest to great results: Telekom Austria's triple and quad plays were delivered in record time – in 16 weeks & 12 weeks respectively. Zero Touch Automation of MPLS (NGN's critical plumbing) has delivered significant business outcomes. MDCC illustrates how Infonova product management can design, test & implement new price plans to respond to competitors’ new pricing schemes in hours not weeks.
Infonova platforms offer an improved customer order to cash experience with configurable sophistication and due to high levels of automation, a low cost to serve.
Infonova Latest Platform
Launched in May 2008, Infonova's Next Generation BSS Release 6 is Telco 2.0 ready. Release 6
- delivers Virtualization and White-Labeling of Infonova's Next Generation BSS proven Order-to-Cash product
- aggregates, bundles and bills for products / services across multiple technologies (both IP & legacy) from both a carrier's own network / services as well as wholesale suppliers (including full re-pricing functionality)
- enables multiple independent brands to operate on one single BSS stack including highly automated functionality to add new brands & sales channels
- delivers a "quote to cash&" online experience for the customer, managing the process from sales to collections, and
- can be deployed to support both a bureau operator as well as retail operators.
It provides the operator with the power to address business opportunities created by the converging value chains of telco, media, ICT and e-commerce and supports the operation of independent brands on one single BSS stack.
Nokia Siemens Networks is a leading global enabler of communications services. The company provides a complete, well-balanced product portfolio of mobile and fixed network infrastructure solutions and addresses the growing demand for services with 20,000 service professionals worldwide. Nokia Siemens Networks is one of the largest telecommunications infrastructure companies with operations in 150 countries. The company is headquartered in Espoo, Finland.
Openet Telecom is a leading worldwide provider of event processing and transaction management solutions that enable service providers to maximize profitability, minimize deployment and management costs and ensure regulatory and partner requirements compliance. Our products - FusionWorks Mediation, FusionWorks Charging, and FusionWorks Real-Time Rating – and the solutions they enable, set the industry standard for availability, performance and scale in processing and management of network activity events and transactions in multi-service convergent environments.
With headquarters in Dublin, Ireland and offices in the United States, Singapore and Brazil and Malaysia, Openet Telecom has signed customers that include British Telecom, Cingular Wireless, StarHub, Orange Group, T-Mobile, TIM, Telstra, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone.
Additional information is available at www.openet.com.
SAP is the world's leading provider of business software*, offering applications and services that enable companies of all sizes and in more than 25 industries to become best-run businesses. With approximately 75,000 customers (includes customers from the acquisition of Business Objects) in over 120 countries, the company is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE, under the symbol 'SAP'. (For more information, visit www.sap.com)
For communications companies - whether focused on telecommunications services or media content - these are challenging times. Markets are saturated with new offerings, and margins continue to diminish. In response, communications service providers (CSPs) are concentrating on improving offers of voice, content, and data services. These offers have the best chances of being accepted when they are attractive to the customer - and made in real time and through the right channel. SAP is in a strong position to help CSPs, with products that enable requisite functionality for real-time offer management optimised within the context of enterprise processes.
*SAP defines business software as comprising enterprise resource planning and related applications.
Sicap Business
Specialized in mobile technologies, the Sicap product and services portfolio focuses on customer satisfaction and service continuity for mobile end-users. By linking Payment and Loyalty software to over-the-air platforms for Device and SIM updating, Sicap software and services enable telecom players to achieve real time converged business. Software for content and applications management ensures that the latest value-added services are seamlessly delivered to any customer device or SIM. The offer extends to include platforms which facilitate business between network operators and their partners.
Sicap Reach
With operational offices in Switzerland, France, Russia, Singapore, Malaysia and South Africa, Sicap has both the worldwide reach and the local presence to serve operators in their market context. Partnerships with global integrators and OEMs ensure interoperable delivery platforms that meet and exceed technological challenges.
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