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Frens Jan Rumph
Profile: I am a researcher, technical consultant and software engineer based in Holland. I have specialized in Charging, Accounting and Billing architectures. From both a technical point of view (IETF, 3GPP, etc) and a business point of view (TM Forum, GBA).
Main interests: Telecom, Charging, Accounting, Billing, Service Orientation, Software Architectures, Software Engineering
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BIMS 2008 World BSS Awards
The BIMS 2008 World BSS Awards were announced Tuesday 10th of June, and are as follows:
Overall – Best Contribution to BSS
2008: LHS
2007: Amdocs & Orga Systems
2006: LHS
Judges’ Award: ‘Above And Beyond The Call Of Duty’
2008: Nawras
2007: BSNL
Innovation In Billing & Information Management
2008: Highdeal
2007: Progress Software
2006: Highdeal
Best Billing / Charging Implementation
2008: NTT DoCoMo
2007: Vodafone UK /Flexphone
2006: BT Mobile / Martin Dawes Systems
Best Content / Partner Management Implementation
2008: No nominations carried forward
2007: Interia PDTM / Comarch
2006: MTN South Africa and Echostar / MetraTech (Co-Winners)
Best e/m-Commerce / Payments / Collections Implementation
2008: Maxis/paybox & Garanti Bank
Best Revenue Assurance / Management Project
2008: BT / cVidya
2007: BT
2006: Allround/Magyar Telekom
Best Customer Management / Business Intelligence / Marketing Project
2008: No nominations carried forward
2007: Mobilink
2006 -Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications
This years Judges:
Anil Prakash – President, Telecom Users Group of India
Barbara Lancaster – President, LTC International
Chris Sanders – Partner, Business Change Partners
Hugh Roberts (Chair) – Consultant Director, BSS/OSS RM Events, IIR Telecoms &
Senior Strategist – Patni Telecoms Consulting
Olga Botero – CIO, Bancolombia
Peter Smith – Director of Information Technology, Hong Kong CSL
Teresa Cottam – Principal Telecoms Analyst, Analysys
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Openet launches two new products
Openet has launched two new products at Management World 2008, based on their FusionWorks platform. The first product is Policy Manager, the second Balance Manager.
A couple of things:
1) I’m getting more and more interested in their FusionWorks Framework. I’ve never had the chance to work with it, but perhaps in the future.
2) I’m not sure what the Policy Manager is policing. It’s all very flexible and on a per subscriber basis etcetera, but what does it police?
3) Does the Policy Manager implement 3GPP’s Policy & Charging Control architecture (3GPP TS 23.203)?
4) If the Balance Manager supports IETF diameter, the please support the standardisation process done by 3GPP! This will probably help the entire industry!
Link: announcement at billingworld.com
Link: Openet’s Policy Manager product page
Link: Openet’s Balance Manager product page
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BIMS 2008 - World BSS awards finalists
The judges for the World BSS awards of the BIMS 2008 conference have announced the finalists. Please note the lack of finalists in two categories!
I hope that the lack of finalists in the categories ‘Best Content / Partner Management Implementation’ and ‘Best Customer Management / Business Intelligence / Marketing Project’ is only due to a lack of proposals from the industry. Since these categories (in my view) contain a lot of opportunities for innovation, as well as challenges to overcome.
I must say that I get an increasingly desire to know the rationale for these types of award show nominees. Especially in the innovations category: what are these great new innovations? I wonder if all of the nominees in that categorie have even released a new product or version of a product. But perhaps that’s not the right criterion.
BTW: notice that Oracle and its Communications Billing and Revenue Management (a.k.a. Portal Infranet) is not on any list!
The finalists are:
1. Overall - Best Contribution to BSS
- Amdocs
- Comverse
- Intec Systems
- LHS
- MetraTech
- Orga Systems
- In addition, the Judges decided to give an Honourable Mention to AsiaInfo
2. Judges’ Award: ‘Above And Beyond The Call Of Duty’
- kajeet / Telcordia
- Nawras
- SFR / Capgemini
- Virgin Media / TMNG Global
3. Innovation In Billing & Information Management
- Garanti Technology
- Highdeal
- kajeet / Telcordia
- LHS
- MetraTech
- Orga Systems
4. Best Billing / Charging Implementation
- Astelit life / Orga Systems
- City Of Chicago / MetraTech
- du / LHS
- NTT DoCoMo
- Utel / Comverse
- In addition, the Judges decided to give an Honourable Mention to Opal / CTI Group
5. Best Content / Partner Management Implementation
- The Judges decided not to carry any nominations forward as Finalists in this category.
6. Best e/m-Commerce / Payments / Collections Implementation
- Garanti Bank
- Maxis / paybox
- QQ Coin
- VimpelCom / Kabira
7. Best Revenue Assurance / Management Project
- AT&T / ECtel
- BT / cVidya Networks
- Carphone Warehouse
- Etisalat Egypt / Connectiva Systems
8. Best Customer Management / Business Intelligence / Marketing Project
- The Judges decided not to carry any nominations forward as Finalists in this category. However, they did decide to give an Honourable Mention to George Kohl
The judges are:
Hugh Roberts (Chair) - Consultant Director, BSS/OSS RM Events, IIR Telecoms & Senior Strategist, Patni Telecoms Consulting
Anil Prakash - President, Telecom User Group Of India
Barbara Lancaster - President, LTC International
Chris Sanders - Partner, Business Change Partners
Olga Botero - CIO, Bancolombia
Peter Smith - Director of Information Technology, Hong Kong CSL
Teresa Cottam - Prinicipal Teldcoms Analyst, Analysys Mason
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BIMS 2008 coming up, another awardshow
The Billing & Information Management Systems 2008 conference, held in Amsterdam, is coming up. And of course including an award show.
And the categories are:
1. Overall – Best Contribution to BSS (Open Category)
The organisation which has had the largest impact on the BSS landscape over the past year.
- Current Holder: Amdocs & Orga Systems
2. Judges’ Award: ‘Above And Beyond The Call Of Duty’ (Open Category)
The organisation or individual who has, in the opinion of the Judges, overcome significant difficulties or hardship in the fulfillment of a BSS objective
- Current Holder: BSNL
3. Innovation In Billing & Information Management (Open Category)
Innovation and enhanced functionality in product / service offering, approach to market &/or business modelling or methodology
- Current Holder: Progress Software
4. Best Billing / Charging Implementation (Network Operator / Service Provider / Partners)
Effective implementation of all (or part) of a system to deliver new or improved billing &/or charging functionality
- Current Holder: Vodafone UK /Flexphone
5. Best Content / Partner Management Implementation (Network Operator / Service Provider / Partners)
Suitability, innovation and profitability (win-win-win) for inter-business processes, relationships and architecture for a content or other 3rd party service implementation
- Current (Joint) Holders - Interia PDTM / Comarch
6. Best e/m-Commerce / Payments / Collections Implementation (Open Category)
Effective implementation of all (or part) of systems and business processes to deliver financial transaction processing capability for commerce, payments &/or collections
- Current Holde - G-Xchange
7. Best Revenue Assurance / Management Project (Network Operator / Service Provider / Partners)
Effectiveness of a proactive or reactive project to enhance data quality and business processes that improves profits, revenues and/or cash flows
- Current Holder: BT
8. Best Customer Management / Business Intelligence / Marketing Project (Open Category)
Effective implementation of CRM, CEM, BI, data integration &/or marketing systems and processes to improve customer information management &/or enhance brand loyalty for the organisation’s portfolio of services offered
- Current Holder: Mobilink
No nominees are announced yet.
Let’s see how this will compare with the Billing & OSS World 2008 Excellence Awards:
Best Revenue Management Solution:
1# Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (a.k.a. Portal Infranet)
2# Highdeal Transactive
Best Billing Solution:
1# Tech Mahindra Integration of the LHS BSCS iX with the Ericsson Charging System
2# Comverse Real-Time Billing Solution
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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:
1# Sprint Nextel Network Resource Management Phase
2# Nakina Systems Deployment Common Element Management System Tier 1 Environment
Best Service Assurance Solution:
1# Telcordia Service Management Suite
2# Integrated Broadband Services BBX 4.4 and I-Focus
Best Service Fulfillment Solution:
1# Telcordia Fulfillment Suite
2# Subex Syndesis Subscriber-Centric Fulfillment Solution
Best Customer Loyalty Program:
1# OSG Billing Digital Phone Conversion Campaign for Inland Cellular
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Best Customer Care Solution:
1# CSG Systems ACSR with Order Workflow
2# Canada Post/Rogers eBill Solution
Best Revenue Management Solution:
1# Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (a.k.a. Portal Infranet)
2# Highdeal Transactive
Best Billing Solution:
1# Tech Mahindra Integration of the LHS BSCS iX with the Ericsson Charging System
2# Comverse Real-Time Billing Solution
Best New Product:
1# Oracle Communication and Mobility Server
2# 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 the 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.
Link: billingworld.com announcement
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