Billing & OSS World Excellence Awards to be Unveiled

The finalists and winners of the Billing & OSS World 2008 Excellence Awards will be named Wednesday night at the Billing & OSS World Conference & Expo in Chicago.

The awards recognize the leaders — vendors, service providers and integrators — in the development and deployment of billing and OSS technologies and solutions.

Awards will be handed out for Best OSS Transformation; Best Service Assurance Solution; Best Service Fulfillment Solution; Best Customer Loyalty Program; Best Customer Care Solution; Best Revenue Management Solution; Best Billing Solution; and Best New Product.

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, a panel of industry experts narrowed the field down to 24 finalists. Billing & OSS World Group Publisher Mike Saxby and Editor In Chief Tim McElligott will be presenting the Excellence 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.

The Billing & OSS World 2008 Excellence Awards winners and runners-up will be featured in an upcoming issue of Billing & OSS World magazine and at www.bllingworld.com.