• NCR INCORPORATES CYBERCASHS SYSTEM
    NCR Corporation added CyberCash as an on-line bill payment supplier for its SmartEC Billing Plus system. CyberCash's Internet payment system will be incorporated into NCR's software offerings to provide secure financial transactions to complement SmartEC's bill viewing and ...More
    March 1, 1998
    Posted in News, Billing
  • EIS AWARDED PATENT
    EIS International, Inc. announced receipt of a U.S. patent for its call blending technology. The patent was awarded for a system designed to allow customers to add outbound predictive dialing capability to their existing ACDs without adding a second phone to desktops in the ...More
    March 1, 1998
    Posted in News
  • FUJITSU TEAMS WITH SOURCEONE
    Fujitsu Business Communication Systems has teamed with SourceOne Wireless to create a new business model for the paging company. Chicago-based SourceOne used computer telephony integration (CTI) to implement a nationwide paging party pays application developed by Fujitsu ...More
    March 1, 1998
    Posted in News, Billing
  • ARCHITEL ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT WITH TOJ
    Architel Systems Corporation announced that Ericsson Telecom, a distribution partner, has entered into an agreement with Telecommunications of Jamaica, Ltd., (TOJ) to sublicense Architel's Automatic Service Activation Program (ASAP). Under this license, TOJ will be entitled ...More
    March 1, 1998
    Posted in News
  • SATURN SIGNS JCS AND KENAN
    New Zealand telecom provider Saturn Communications Ltd. licensed Kenan Systems Corporation's Arbor BP billing engine and Jones Cyber Solutions' Intelligent Customer Support System (ICSS) customer management software. Wellington-based Saturn is New Zealand's largest cable ...More
    March 1, 1998
    Posted in News
  • MSFDC ANNOUNCES PROGRAM FOR E-BILLING
    MSFDC, a joint venture of Microsoft Corp. and First Data Corp. (FDC), launched its Systems Integrator Program for third-party companies to help implement its electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP) system, which is designed to link banks, billers and consumers. The ...More
    March 1, 1998
    Posted in News
  • IN-TOUCH SELECTED BY INTERANTENNA; RELEASES POS SYSTEM
    Interantenna-AMC, a Russian paging company, selected and installed the In-Touch II paging billing and management system from In-Touch Management Systems, Inc. In-Touch II is designed to be multilingual users can define its system screens and descriptions by maintaining ...More
    March 1, 1998
    Posted in News
  • CBIS ELECTS NEW COO; LHS APPOINTS CTO
    Cincinnati Bell Inc., announced that Brian C. Henry was elected chief operating officer of Cincinnati Bell Information Systems (CBIS). Henry will have day-to-day responsibility for CBIS' business units and will continue as chief financial officer with Cincinnati Bell until ...More
    March 1, 1998
    Posted in News
  • Performance Measurement for the Billing Organization
    Many carriers have reengineered their billing organizations into process-focused operations. The billing function has been a prime candidate for process management because of the cross-organizational flow of activities. In creating process-centric organizations, use of ...More
    March 1, 1998
    Posted in Articles, Billing
  • INTEGRETEL AND SECUREBILL JOIN FORCES
    Integretel, Inc., a telecom billing and collection company, formed a strategic alliance with SecureBill, Inc., an Internet billing company. The alliance is designed to enable the companies to capitalize on opportunities in the Internet commerce market. Integretel plans to ...More
    March 1, 1998
    Posted in News, Billing