Amdocs Receives Highest Possible Rating in BSS from Leading Analyst Firm
Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), the leading provider of customer experience systems, today announced that Amdocs received the highest possible rating of “Very Strong” from Gartner in its business support systems (BSS) vendor evaluation
ST. LOUIS (February 25, 2009) –
Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), the leading provider of customer experience systems, today announced that Amdocs received the highest possible rating of “Very Strong” from Gartner in its business support systems (BSS) vendor evaluation. This was reported in the Gartner 1 Dataquest report published in December 2008 titled, “Dataquest Insight: Business Support System Market Overview and Strategic Scorecard for Vendors, 2008.”
The report concludes that: “BSS vendors will differentiate themselves by their ability to support carrier innovation, customize their products and integrate them within a carrier’s technology stack, either using their own professional services divisions or in conjunction with carriers’ Information Technology (IT) departments and systems integrators.”
“Amdocs has the most integrated and innovative BSS portfolio available today,” said Michael Couture, head of Global Marketing at Amdocs. “Combined with our leading managed services, systems integration and consulting expertise, Amdocs is allowing its customers to reduce operational costs, while still driving innovation to maintain a leadership position in the market.”
Amdocs’ products are installed by most of the world’s leading fixed, mobile and cable service providers. Most recently at Mobile World Congress 2009, Amdocs announced the general availability of the company’s newest product for Intelligent Networks (IN)-based, real-time, convergent charging – Amdocs CES – Charging 7.5T. Based on a new rating technology, it provides a single architecture for real-time charging across any network, service or payment type and offers these large providers the ability to consolidate their BSS systems onto a single platform that can support all of their lines of business.
Amdocs Charging 7.5T is certified on low-cost blade servers to support massive subscriber and event growth and reduce the need for significant hardware investment. Amdocs’ internal benchmarking tests estimate that this new technology can deliver up to 700 percent performance improvements in rating and charging. In addition, its performance over low-cost servers can reduce up to 70 percent of charging hardware and software costs.
Amdocs is also gaining rapid traction with its productized offerings such as the Amdocs Billing Start Pack which incorporates pre-integrated products, out-of-the-box functionality, best practice business processes and implementation services for rapid and cost-efficient deployment of BSS systems and introduction of new market offerings; and the Amdocs Compact Convergence Suite for service delivery and convergent real-time charging. Amdocs was also the first to introduce an On-Demand offering for service delivery and convergent real-time charging – Amdocs Compact Convergence On Demand.
1Gartner: “Dataquest Insight: Business Support System Market Overview and Strategic Scorecard for Vendors, 2008” by Norbert J. Scholz, December 5, 2008.
The Gartner Scorecard report is copyrighted December 5, 2008 by Gartner, Inc., and is reused with permission. The Scorecard report is a representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the report and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with a “Very Strong” rating. The Scorecard report is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. .
About Amdocs Customer Experience Systems (CES)
Amdocs CES is an integrated portfolio that delivers the operating environment service providers need to transform from providers of utility voice, data and video services into purveyors of the digital lifestyle. Amdocs CES allows providers to deliver an optimal customer experience–personalized, participatory and timely across any service, location and device. The Amdocs CES portfolio leverages Amdocs business process best practices based on real-world scenarios, and transcends traditional business support systems (BSS), operational support systems (OSS) and service delivery platforms (SDPs) to enable service providers to address both current and emerging customer experience business processes. Amdocs’ unique business model focuses on enabling its customers to create differentiation and build brand, loyalty, profitability and competitive leadership. Please visit http://www.amdocs.com for more information.
About Amdocs
Amdocs is the market leader in customer experience systems innovation, enabling world-leading service providers to deliver an integrated, innovative and intentional customer experienceTM at every point of service. Amdocs provides solutions that deliver customer experience excellence, combining the software, services and expertise to help its customers execute their strategies and achieve service, operational and financial excellence. A global company with revenue of $3.16 billion in fiscal 2008, Amdocs has more than 17,000 employees and serves customers in more than 50 countries around the world. For more information, visit Amdocs at www.amdocs.com.
Amdocs Forward-Looking Statement
This press release includes information that constitutes forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about Amdocs’ growth and business results in future quarters. Although we believe the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be obtained or that any deviations will not be material. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause future results to differ from those anticipated. These risks include, but are not limited to, the effects of general economic conditions, Amdocs’ ability to grow in the business segments it serves, adverse effects of market competition, rapid technological shifts that may render the Company’s products and services obsolete, potential loss of a major customer, our ability to develop long-term relationships with our customers, and risks associated with operating businesses in the international market. Amdocs may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, however the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These and other risks are discussed at greater length in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2008, filed on December 8, 2008, and in our quarterly 6-K furnished on February 9, 2009.
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