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| Comptel Corp.’s award for Best Service Fulfillment was accepted by Kristi Siple (center), the company’s senior director of business development, from Mike Saxby, (left) group publisher, Billing & OSS World, and Tim McElligott, (right) editor in chief, Billing & OSS World. |
Winners and runners-up in the Billing & OSS World 2009 Excellence Awards were honored during a special ceremony Tuesday night at the
Billing & OSS World Conference & Expo in Las Vegas.
The awards recognize the leaders — vendors, service providers and integrators — in the development and deployment of billing and OSS technologies solutions.
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| (Left to right) John Trembley, vice president of marketing, Xeround, Inc; Haydar Haba, chief visionary officer, IntelePeer; Grant Lenahan, executive director and strategist - service delivery solutions, Telecordia; Tom Angeline, director of market development - AT&T eSales & Service, AT&T; Kristi Siple, senior director of business development, Comptel Corp.; and Andy Thorburn, president of global marketing, Intec. |
Nominations were open to eligible participating exhibitors, sponsors, speakers and attendees of the Billing & OSS World 2009 Conference & Expo, April 14 – 16, in Las Vegas. The winners were selected by an independent panel and were presented with their awards by Billing & OSS World Group Publisher Mike Saxby and Editor in Chief Tim McElligott.
The Billing & OSS World 2009 Excellence Award winners were:
- Best OSS Transformation: Xeround Inc.’s Xeround Intelligent Data Grid
- Best Service Fulfillment Solution: Comptel Corp.’s Comptel Fulfillment Solution
- Best Customer Care Solution: AT&T’s AT&T Business Direct
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| (Left to right) Mike Saxby, group publisher, Billing & OSS World; John Trembley, vice president of marketing, Xeround, Inc.; Haydar Haba, chief visionary officer, IntelePeer; Grant Lenahan, executive director and strategist - service delivery solutions, Telecordia; Tom Angeline, director of market development - AT&T eSales & Service, AT&T; Kristi Siple, senior director of business development, Comptel Corp.; Andy Thorburn, president of global markets, Intec; and Tim McElligott, editor in chief, Billing & OSS World. |
- Best Revenue Management Solution: Telcordia Technologies Inc.’s Telcordia Kajeet Case Study
- Best Managed Service Solution: IntelePeer Inc.’s IntelePeer AppworX Open Communications Platform
- Best Billing Solution: Intec Telecom System PLC’s Intec Convergent Billing for Polkomtel
The runners-up were:
- Best OSS Transformation: RCN Corp.’s Web-Based Ecommerce Project
- Best Service Fulfillment Solution: CommSoft’s VTC
- Best Customer Care Solution: Sprint Nextel’s Unified Billing Platform (UBP)
- Best Revenue Management Solution: MetraTech Corp.’s MetraNet
- Best Managed Service Solution: MetraTech Corp.’s Microsoft Online (Deployment)
- Best Billing Solution: Convergys Corp.’s Convergys BSS/OSS Solutions Portfolio
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| John Trembley (center), vice president of marketing, Xeround Inc., accepted the company’s award for Best OSS Transformation from Mike Saxby (left) group publisher, Billing & OSS World, and Tim McElligott (right), editor in chief, Billing & OSS World. |
Billing & OSS World 2009 Excellence Award winners were selected by an independent judging panel that included Susan McNeice, global program manager of OSS/BSS global competitive strategies for Stratecast, a division of Frost & Sullivan; Ari Banerjee, director of enabling technologies for Yankee Group; Dan Gieger, directing analyst, next-gen OSS and policy for Infonetics Research; Elisabeth Rainge, director of NGN operations for IDC; Dan ‘O Shea, editor for Fierce Telecom; and members of the Billing & OSS World editorial team.
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| AT&T’s Tom Angeline (center), director of market development – AT&T eSales & Service, accepted the company’s award for Best Customer Care Solution from Mike Saxby (left), group publisher, Billing & OSS World, and Tim McElligott (right), editor in chief, Billing & OSS World. |
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| Haydar Haba (center), chief visionary officer, IntelePeer, accepted the company’s award for Best Managed Service Solution from Mike Saxby (left), group publisher, Billing & OSS World, and Tim McElligott (right), editor in chief, Billing & OSS World. |
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| Grant Lenahan (center), Telcordia’s executive director and strategist – service delivery solutions, accepted the company’s award for Best Revenue Management Solution from Mike Saxby (left), group publisher, Billing & OSS World, and Tim McElligott (right), editor in chief, Billing & OSS World. |
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| Intec’s Best Billing Solution award was accepted by Andy Thornburn (center) the company’s president of global markets, from Mike Saxby (left) group publisher, Billing & OSS World, and Tim McElligott (right), editor in chief, Billing & OSS World. |
