Cerillion

Convergent customer relationship management and billing specialist, Cerillion Technologies, today announced that it has signed a comprehensive world-wide marketing agreement with Compaq Computer Corporation.

This agreement provides for the joint sales and marketing of “Cerillion”, the evolutionary customer relationship management and billing solution for communication service providers, and “IBAS”, the interconnect billing and carrier relationship management system. Under the agreement Compaq will promote the Cerillion solutions through their local in country offices.

To demonstrate the collective suitability and scaleability, Compaq are also proceeding to benchmark both products on Compaq AlphaServer‘ systems running Tru64‘ UNIX, a high performance, highly reliable platform that is widely deployed by service providers in their billing and customer care solutions.

Louis Hall, Cerillion Technologies CEO commented: This agreement means that we can provide a complete, well proven solution. The extensive programme of testing and benchmarking that we have undertaken with Compaq platforms means that operators can implement a system and be sure of the performance that they can expect.

We have been delivering solutions based on Compaq platforms for some time now. These have been implemented with a number of operators and have proven to be very successful. The customers have benefited from a high level of hardware reliability and world class service. As a result we have excellent practical working relations with a number of Compaq regions already. This agreement helps to formalise our relationship and should allow us to work effectively with Compaq sales and marketing teams throughout the world.

Mitesh Desai, Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, in the Compaq Telecom Division, said, Next generation services demand much more sophisticated billing and customer care solutions. Both Cerillion and Compaq have extensive experience in this arena, and have proven they can cooperate to deliver the advanced solutions customers need. This agreement sets the stage for much closer cooperation - and even more robust solutions for our customers.

Matt O’Donovan, Cerillion Technologies VP of Channel Management: Compaq is a major force in the world telecom marketplace. We therefore view this agreement between us as highly significant. It is, however, just the beginning. You can now expect to see a number of joint initiatives from Compaq and Cerillion targeted at delivering innovative and complete solutions for communications service providers world-wide.

The Cerillion system, running on the Compaq platform, has been implemented for BT Manx. Mark Briers, BT's Director for the Manx UMTS Project said: In developing a leading-edge project of this type, it is important that we choose partners who will provide us with the strongest foundation. Cerillion Technologies presented us with a platform which not only supports this emerging technology, but also enhances business and customer interactivity. Demonstrating flexibility in meeting our detailed customer requirements proved key, and we look forward to a successful partnership in delivering results.

About Cerillion Technologies:

Based in Central London, Cerillion provides convergent Telecoms Customer Care and Billing Solutions to fixed, mobile, IP and convergent operators worldwide. Cerillion Technologies was formed in October 1999 through the Management Buyout of the Frost Customer Care and Billing division of Logica, which has been supporting operators needs since 1992.

The Cerillion CRM & Billing solution provides operators and service providers with a flexible end-to-end solution, to their customer care and billing needs, along with operational support functionality such as workflow management, Web Care and mediation. In addition, Cerillion supports IP and content based billing as well as third generation technologies such as GPRS and UMTS.

Cerillion has also recently purchased the IBAS Interconnect billing and carrier management division from US software company CACI.

Cerillion works closely with technology partners such as Xacct to ensure clients are delivered the broadest functionality within one pre-integrated solution. In addition partners such as Logica provide integration and implementation strength.

Cerillion is also implementing a converged UMTS, GSM and fixed wire solution for BT Wireless on the Isle of Man in a ground breaking project. For more information: www.worldsfirst3g.com

For further information please contact:

Robin Burton: +44 207 927 6000. robin.burton@cerillion.com
Cerillion Technologies, 15 Adeline Place, London WC1B 3AJ