Comptel Wins IBM Beacon Award for Best Communications Industry Solution
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IBM Beacon Awards recognise technical excellence, industry expertise and innovative solutions for IBM technology and services
HELSINKI, Finland - Comptel Corporation (NASDAQ OMX Helsinki: CTL1V) today announced that Comptel Convergent Mediation was named the Best Communications Industry Solution in the 2012 IBM Beacon Awards. This honour is awarded each year to a select number of IBM Business Partners to recognise information technology excellence, commitment to skills attainment, industry knowledge and innovative solutions based on IBM technology and services.
Key Facts
o The IBM Beacon Awards are a central and vital element of IBM's Business Partner recognition program. Announced last night at the IBM PartnerWorld Leadership Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, and selected by leading industry influencers and IBM executives from among hundreds of nominations, the IBM Beacon Awards recognise a select number of IBM Business Partners who have demonstrated business excellence in delivering IBM-based solutions resulting in client transformation and business growth. This year's awards recognised Business Partner achievements across 27 award categories.
o Comptel Convergent Mediation is a single, scalable platform for managing the collection and transformation of network transactions from various network types to billable records. It offers an intelligent approach by hiding network complexity and linking services and subscriber and payment types. Its vendor-independent components seamlessly integrate with communications service providers' legacy systems, enable connectivity to business support systems for prepaid charging and postpaid billing, as well as extend to next-generation environments and services.
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o "New lifestyle services have significantly increased the amount and complexity of information that communications service providers need to collect and process from their networks," said Mr. Antti Koskela, senior vice president, products and solutions, Comptel. "As such, their back-office systems must be able to scale and dynamically respond to market changes to maximise business opportunities. We are pleased to have Comptel Convergent Mediation recognised for the significant benefits it brings to the communications industry, and for the successful collaboration with our business partner IBM."
o "The IBM Beacon Awards were established more than a dozen years ago to recognise Business Partners globally for their excellence and innovative solutions," said Mark Hennessy, general manager, IBM Global Business Partners & Midmarket. "Our winners are Business Partners who have delivered unique and innovative solutions that raise the standard for business excellence and bringing client value. We congratulate Comptel on winning the Beacon Award for Best Communications Industry Solution, and demonstrating its ability to provide value to communications service providers by improving time to market, optimising their business processes and increasing their revenue potential."
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o For more information about Comptel, visit www.comptel.com. Learn more about the company's Customer Engagement solutions and its convergent mediation expertise.
About Comptel Corporation
Comptel's solutions and services enable telecom service providers to deliver services flexibly and charge them effectively. Comptel's wide expertise in service fulfilment, policy control, mediation and charging empowers our customers to focus on delivering innovative services. Comptel has provided software solutions to over 280 service providers with over one billion subscribers in 85 countries. The Group has over 600 employees worldwide, and net sales were EUR 77 million in 2011. www.comptel.com
Further Information
Comptel Corporation
Ulla Koivukoski
SVP, Marketing and Communications
+358 9 700 1131
ulla.koivukoski@comptel.com
