Comarch, a global software house and system integrator, has signed a contract to deploy a convergent billing solution for a well-established Icelandic communications service provider – Síminn. With Comarch Convergent Billing, the operator will be able to achieve process excellence and, as a result, improve the overall efficiency of billing processes, as well as deploy a modern platform to support a digital services era transformation in the telecoms industry. The companies will partner for the first time in this BSS project which is due to commence in October 2013.
“After a thorough selection process we have chosen Comarch as a BSS vendor for replacing our existing billing system as the solution proposed by the company was the best fit to our requirements. It has to not only support contemporary but also future business models and market trends, with a strong focus being on customer experience. In addition to that we were impressed by their technical expertise and dedicated approach. We highly value long term relationships with our business partners and we see Comarch as an agile organization that has a lot to offer for telecoms, especially in today’s digital services era,” says Eric Figueras, Vice President and CTIO at Síminn.
“It is a great challenge to work with the progressive Icelandic operator with an established position on the market and a wide portfolio of services including mobile, fixed, Internet and IPTV, for both residential and business markets. Optimized and efficient billing processes are crucial for managing such complex offerings and with Comarch Convergent Billing system, we can help Síminn achieve this as well as enable them to simplify processes. This newly announced business collaboration will lead to another very valuable reference for Comarch,” says Piotr Piatosa, Vice President and Director of the Telecommunications Business Unit at Comarch.
Comarch has already implemented its Convergent Billing solution across many countries, including the Netherlands, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Nordic countries, as well as the North and South America. Comarch Convergent Billing chosen by Síminn provides the following functionalities: Billing, Accounting, Formatting, Product Catalog, Data Exchange, Resource Management, Application Integration Framework.