B/OSS World: Billing & OSS World 2009 Excellence Award Winners Named

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.

(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.

• 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

  (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

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.

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.

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.