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IBM Tivoli Division
Winners of World BSS Awards announced in Amsterdam
2008-06-20 18:09:24
The Judges announced their decision on the companies and projects selected as Winners for each of the World BSS Awards at the BIMS 2008 Gala Diamond Drinks Reception in Amsterdam on June 10, 2008.
The World BSS Awards help raise awareness of the significance of billing and information management systems and processes to the communications industry, identifying key trends and rewarding BSS best practice. They are widely regarded as the highest industry recognition of BSS excellence. Launched in 1997, this will be the 12th year that these important awards will be presented.
The Judges for this year's World BSS Awards are:
- Anil Prakash - President, Telecom User Group Of India
- Barbara Lancaster - President, LTC International
- Chris Sanders - Partner, Business Change Partners
- Hugh Roberts (Chair) - Consultant Director, BSS/OSS &
RM Events, IIR Telecoms, &
Senior Strategist, Patni Telecoms Consulting - Olga Botero - CIO, Bancolombia
- Peter Smith - Director of Information Technology, Hong Kong CSL
- Teresa Cottam - Prinicipal Telecoms Analyst, Analysys Mason
The World BSS Awards Winners are as follows:
1. Overall - Best Contribution to BSS(Open Category) - The organisation which has had the largest impact on the BSS landscape over the past year
Winner: LHS
Runner Up: Amdocs
Other
Finalists:
- Comverse
- Intec Systems
- MetraTech
- Orga Systems
In addition, the Judges decided gave an Honourable Mention to AsiaInfo
2. Judges' Award: 'Above And Beyond The
Call Of Duty' (Open Category) - The organisation or individual who
has, in the opinion of the Judges, overcome significant difficulties or hardship
in the fulfillment of a BSS objective
Winner: Nawras
Runner Up: kajeet / Telcordia
Other Finalists:
- SFR / Capgemini
- Virgin Media / TMNG Global
3. Innovation In Billing & Information Management
(Open Category) - Innovation and enhanced functionality in product
/ service offering, approach to market &/or business modelling or
methodology
Winner: Highdeal
Runner Up: Orga Systems
Other Finalists:
- Garanti Techology
- kajeet / Telcordia
- LHS
- MetraTech
4. Best Billing / Charging Implementation (Network
Operator / Service Provider / Partners) Effective implementation of all (or
part) of a system to deliver new or improved billing &/or charging
functionality
Winner: NTT DoCoMo
Runner Up: City Of
Chicago / MetraTech
Other Finalists:
- Astelit life:) / Orga Systems
- du / LHS
- Utel / Comverse
In addition, the Judges decided to give an Honourable Mention to Opal / CTI Group
5. Best Content / Partner Management Implementation (Network Operator / Service Provider / Partners) Suitability, innovation and profitability (win-win-win) for inter-business processes, relationships and architecture for a content or other 3rd party service implementation
The Judges did not to carry any nominations forward as Winner in this category.
6. Best e/m-Commerce / Payments / Collections Implementation
(Open Category) - Effective implementation of all (or part) of
systems and business processes to deliver financial transaction processing
capability for commerce, payments &/or collections
Winner:
Garanti Bank and Maxis / paybox
Other
Finalists:
- QQ Coin
- VimpelCom / Kabira
7. Best Revenue Assurance / Management Project
(Network Operator / Service Provider / Partners) Effectiveness of
a proactive or reactive project to enhance data quality and business processes
that improves profits, revenues and/or cash flows
Winner: BT / cVidya
Networks
Runner Up: AT&T / Ectel
Other Finalists:
- Carphone Warehouse
- Etisalat Egypt / Connectiva Systems
8. Best Customer Management / Business Intelligence / Marketing Project (Open Category) - Effective implementation of CRM, CEM, BI, data integration &/or marketing systems and processes to improve customer information management &/or enhance brand loyalty for the organisation's portfolio of services offered
The Judges did not carry any nominations forward as Finalists in this category. However, they did give an Honourable Mention to George Kohl
"We are delighted to honour all of the winners and finalists of the World BSS Awards." said Hugh Roberts, Chairman of the Awards Judging Panel and Consultant Director for IIR's BSS, OSS & RM Events. "Judging is hard - but enjoyable - work. The projects and companies chosen as winners always enlighten us, and reflect the ability of the telecoms industry to effectively get to grips with its customer management, information management and transaction processing demands. Convergence - however you choose to define it - only makes this harder, but I have no doubt that telecoms BSS professionals will rise to the challenge!"
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