Tuesday March 13, 8:13 am Eastern Time
Press Release
Pihana Pacific Chooses Portal Software's Customer Management and Billing Platform to Support Asia Pacific, U.S. Expansion
Multiple Language Support, Intuitive User Interface, and Scalability of Portal's Infranet Enable Company to Rapidly Roll Out Neutral Data Center Services
CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 2001-- Portal Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:PRSF - news), a leading provider of business infrastructure software for broadband, wireless Internet, and next-generation communications services, today announced that Pihana Pacific, Inc. has licensed Portal's Infranet® customer management and billing platform. Pihana, a provider of neutral data centers to the Internet community, will use Infranet to create a customer care and billing foundation for its new model of Internet and business communication exchange, enabling customers to interact with vendors and partners through its neutral data center locations in Asia Pacific.
Launched in January 2000, Pihana's business plan is focused on a broad geographic presence throughout Asia Pacific. The company's Honolulu and Los Angeles data centers are open. Sites in Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney are scheduled to open within the next 6 months. Portal's Infranet, through its support of Asian languages, intuitive user interface, scalability, and flexible middleware support, will provide Pihana with a powerful solution to help facilitate the geographical and economic challenges of doing business between the U.S. and Asia Pacific.
``Pihana Pacific introduced the first Internet exchange data center model offering absolute neutrality to the Asia Pacific region,'' said Richard Kalbrener, CEO and president for Pihana Pacific. ``As a result, customers are encouraged to interact freely in this open market environment. Our customer service platform must provide flexibility and localization customized for the mix of Internet providers and businesses that will represent our customer base in Asia/Pacific. Infranet has provided that critical element to our billing and customer account management systems.''
``Pihana's data switching and co-location services model is unique, and Infranet, because of its scalability and flexibility, is an ideal billing solution to support this business model,'' said Vijay Iyer, vice president of market development at Portal. ``We look forward to working with Pihana as it continues to expand its presence in the Asian marketplace.''
About Pihana Pacific, Inc.
Pihana Pacific (www.pihana.com) establishes a new model of Internet and business communication exchange, enabling customers to interact with vendors and partners throughout its neutral data center locations in Asia Pacific. ``Pihana'' is a Hawaiian word meaning ``fullness'' and ``completion'' when forces come together. Headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii and Hong Kong, Pihana Pacific launched in January 2000 with a strategy to build a broad geographic presence throughout Asia Pacific. Pihana has offices in Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, Singapore, Sydney, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
About Portal Software, Inc.
Portal Software provides software to manage next-generation communications and e-services. The Infranet software platform enables service providers to rapidly deploy new services, define optimal business models and price plans, and bill their users. Portal's software is licensed by more than three-quarters of the world's 25 largest communications services companies to support wireless, broadband, Internet, next-generation voice, and other e-service offerings. Customers include AOL Time Warner, Qwest Communications, Sprint, NTT, Deutsche Telekom, Telenor Mobil AS, China Telecom, and France Telecom. Portal Software employs over 1,500 people at more than 40 offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.portal.com.
Copyright (c) 2001 Portal Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Infranet is a U.S. registered trademark, and Portal and the Portal logo are trademarks of Portal Software, Inc. All statements made in this press release are made only as of the date set forth at the beginning of this release. Portal undertakes no obligation to update the information in the event facts or circumstances subsequently change.
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Contact:
Portal Software
Wendy Brooks, 408/572-2438
wbrooks@portal.com
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