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XaCCT wins Billing Innovators Award
WINNERS OF THE 1999 WORLD BILLING AWARDS
Presented by IIR
At BILLING SYSTEMS 1999
Olympia Conference Centre, London - 27th April 1999
1999 WINNERS
2. Most Innovative Billing Product
3. Best Billing Implementation
4. Best Customer Care Offered
5. Most Helpful Systems Integrator
HONOURABLE MENTIONS
1. Overall - Best Contribution To Billing
2. Most Innovative Billing Product
3. Best Billing Implementation
4. Best Customer Care Offered
5. Most Helpful Systems Integrator
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
The winners of the WORLD BILLING AWARDS were announced at the Gala Dinner on the 27th April 1999 at IIR's BILLING SYSTEMS 1999 Conference & Exhibition (26th - 29th April 1999) at the Olympia Conference Centre, London.
This is the third year that the Awards have been presented. Voting was open; winners were chosen by delegates attending IIR's Customer Care & Billing Events and by votes cast on the BILLING SYSTEMS 1999 Web Site (HTTP://telecoms.iir.co.uk/billing)
For the first time voting in two of the awards' categories resulted in a dead heat. LHS and AMDOCS shared the OVERALL - BEST CONTRIBUTION TO BILLING Award. The MOST INNOVATIVE BILLING PRODUCT Award was shared by XACCT TECHNOLOGIES and LHS. Interestingly, XACCT were a clear favourite amongst those voting via the conference web site whilst LHS were the favourite choice of attendees at the event itself.
There was a distinct Scandinavian flavour to the two Network Operator awards: BEST BILLING IMPLEMENTATION went to TELENOR in Norway and the Award for BEST CUSTOMER CARE OFFERED was won by SONERA (formerly TELECOM FINLAND)
For the second year running CAP GEMINI won the award for MOST HELPFUL SYSTEMS INTEGRATOR.
IIR's BILLING SYSTEMS Show is a landmark in the European events calendar and is now the largest dedicated gathering of communications billing professionals outside of the USA and the second largest telecoms industry conference in Europe. The demand for exhibition space continues to grow and this year the show has expanded to two floors at London's Olympia
Conference Centre.
The event - which comprises Operators' and Billing Development Forums as well as the main two day conference (unusual in that all of the main conference presentations were made by Telecoms Network Operators and not by Manufacturers or Billing Software Vendors) - was accompanied by the BILLING SYSTEMS 1999 EXHIBITION, and was attended by 1800 billing professionals from 60 countries representing all corners of the globe.
Exhibitors at the show have been delighted by the quality and global spread of attendees at BILLING SYSTEMS 1999...
James Berry, Managing Director of INTASYS MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS said: "An impressive forum for our first show. We will definitely be back with a bigger presence next year and look forward with great anticipation to Billing Systems 2000."
Mark De Lacy, Account Manager of HIGHAMS RECRUITMENT SERVICES: "We have never been at such a focused show which has attracted such high quality delegates!"
Gold Sponsors:
Silver Sponsors:
Official Show Guide: EUROPEAN COMMUNICATIONS
(Full conference programme details are available at the Conference Web Site: http://telecoms.iir.co.uk/billing/)
NEXT MAJOR EVENT
BILLING SYSTEMS 2000
AWARDS QUOTES
"The World Billing Awards were introduced to acknowledge billing best practice and raise the awareness of how significant the billing process is to the communications and electronic commerce industries." said Hugh Roberts, Consultant Conference Director for IIR's Customer Care & Billing Events. "I am delighted that each year the number of companies voted for in each category has increased dramatically and that the winners voted for by their industry peers are indeed worth representatives of this growing and vibrant sector of the telecoms industry."
Jim Hanna, VP Partner Sales, EMEA who received the two awards on behalf of LHS said: "LHS is honoured to win these highly prestigious awards. We feel these awards recognise the exciting recent LHS product developments that we believe give us technology leadership in billing and customer care."
Norman Rafalowitz, Senior VP Sales & Marketing for AMDOCS said: "We at Amdocs are honoured to receive this Award following the vote of our peers and the major telecoms operators. This Award strengthens our resolve to maintain our efforts to both expand and extend our products and services to the telecoms industry. Telecom is our only focus and all of our business and developments are for this important, strategic and dynamic industry."
Jan Olav Knutsen, Product Manager CCB for TELENOR 4TEL - who received the award for Best Billing Systems Implementation on behalf of Telenor - said: "This is an acknowledgement of the way Telenor has performed the complex task of Customer Care and Billing systems integration in all of their different business units. The co-operation between Telenor 4tel as an internal system integrator and the business units focus on their market segments has proven to be a success."
Mats Wallstrom, International Market Development Manager for CAP GEMINI Telecom and Media, said: "On behalf of Cap Gemini, I am happy to receive the award for 'Most Helpful Systems Integrator Of The Year'. I believe the key contributing factor in the choice of Cap Gemini for this award is our focus on delivering solutions on time and above customer expectations. The award is a measure of the high confidence our customers have in Cap Gemini's capabilities to deliver key solutions. Tight co-operation with our partners is also essential to our project successes."
Anil Uberoi, Vice President of Marketing for XACCT Technologies, said: "We are honoured to receive this prestigious award. The IIR 'Most Innovative Billing Product' award at Billing Systems 1999 demonstrates the need for service providers to accurately bill for IP services today. Service providers are implementing XACCT's IP mediation system to enable differentiated IP services like Internet telephony , video conferencing, and virtual private networks."
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE ORGANISER
IIR is the world's largest conference organiser with nearly 4,000 events staged annually. As a global organisation with offices throughout the world and the capacity to access extensive databases, our conferences attract truly international speakers and delegates. Recent events have benefited from the participation of senior industry attendees from both developed markets and developing world over 75 countries, providing a unique opportunity for all of those present to exchange knowledge and contacts on a genuinely global basis.
IIR Telecoms & Technology LONDON is renowned for the quality, innovation and ambition of the international telecoms sector conferences which it has consistently produced since its inception as a world class specialist Division in 1993. Each conference is extensively researched and attracts a truly international spread of speakers and delegates. The division produces well over 100 dedicated telecoms event per year throughout Europe.
IIR's Billing & Customer Care Team, headed up by HUGH ROBERTS, Consultant Conference Director, produce a range of tightly focused niche telecoms CCB events across Europe in addition to the major show: BILLING SYSTEMS 1999. Conference topics include:
For further details on these and other events please contact [email protected]
PREVIOUS WINNERS
1. Overall - Best Contribution To Billing
2. Most Innovative Billing Product
3. Best Billing Implementation
4. Best Customer Care Offered
5. Most Helpful Systems Integrator
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