B/OSS Names Billing & OSS 2008 Excellence Award Winners

Eight winners of the Billing & OSS World 2008 Excellence Awards were named Wednesday night. The awards recognize the leaders — vendors, service providers and integrators — in the development and deployment of billing and OSS technologies and solutions.

The Billing & OSS World 2008 Excellence Award winners named Wednesday night at the Billing & OSS World Expo were:

• Best OSS Transformation: Sprint Nextel Network Resource Management Phase

• Best Service Assurance Solution: Telcordia Service Management Suite

• Best Service Fulfillment Solution: Telcordia Fulfillment Suite

• Best Customer Loyalty Program: OSG Billing Digital Phone Conversion Campaign for Inland Cellular

• Best Customer Care Solution: CSG Systems ACSR with Order Workflow

• Best Revenue Management Solution: Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management

• Best Billing Solution: Tech Mahindra Integration of the LHS BSCS iX with the Ericsson Charging System

• Best New Product: Oracle Communication and Mobility Server

The runners-up were:

• Best OSS Transformation: Nakina Systems Deployment Common Element Management System Tier 1 Environment

• Best Service Assurance Solution: Integrated Broadband Services BBX 4.4 and I-Focus

• Best Service Fulfillment Solution: Subex Syndesis Subscriber-Centric Fulfillment Solution

• Best Customer Care Solution: Canada Post/Rogers eBill Solution

• Best Revenue Management Solution: Highdeal Transactive

• Best Billing Solution: Comverse Real-Time Billing Solution

• Best New Product: VPI Systems OnePlan

Nominations were open to participating exhibitors, sponsors, speakers and attendees of this week’s Billing & OSS World 2008 Conference & Expo in Chicago. After receiving more than 90 submissions, the winners were selected by an independent panel. Billing & OSS World Group Publisher Mike Saxby and Editor In Chief Tim McElligott presented awards.

Billing & OSS World 2008 Excellence Award finalists were selected by an independent judging panel, including Ian Scales, independent OSS/BSS journalist and analyst; Jeffrey Cotrupe, CEO, MarketPOWER LLC; Shira Levine, senior research analyst, OSS and billing, IDC; Sheryl Kingstone, director, enterprise research-customer centric strategies, Yankee Group; Ed Shanahan, partner, Excelerate Partners Inc.; Paul Hughes, vice president, enabling technologies, Yankee Group; Dan Baker, research director, OSS/BSS KnowledgeBase, Dittberner Associates Inc.; Susan McNeice, senior analyst, Stratecast; and members of the Billing & OSS World editorial team.

For complete coverage of the Billing & OSS World 2008 Excellence Awards, visit www.billingworld.com/excellenceawards. For more information about the Billing & OSS World 2008 Conference & Expo, visit www.billingworldexpo.com.

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