Thursday August 5, 10:45 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
XACCT And Intasys Form Strategic Alliance To Bring Usage-Based IP
Billing To Telecommunications Industry
SANTA CLARA, Calif. and TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 1999--(NASDAQ:INTA - news) Companies Partner to Combine Cutting-Edge IP Metering
and Mediation System with IP Customer Care and Billing System
XACCT Technologies, Inc., the developer of the XACCTusage(tm) metering and mediation solution for IP networks, and Intasys Corporation (NASDAQ: INTA -
news), the developer of JBill, a state-of-the-art billing and customer care system for the convergent telecommunications industry, today announced that they have
entered into a strategic alliance. Under the terms of the agreement, XACCT and Intasys will jointly integrate XACCTusage with JBill solution to provide
comprehensive, multi-service Customer Care and Billing (CCB) solutions.
As value-added services such as IP fax, IP telephony, and streaming multimedia emerge on the Internet, the traditional basic flat-rate billing model is becoming
obsolete. Network Service Providers (NSPs) are realizing that they must bill for such services based on a variety of parameters beyond simply ''time-on-line.'' The
integration of XACCTusage and JBill will enable NSPs to create accurate, usage-based bills based on a wide range of parameters.
''This joint offering of two leading edge products will provide any IP-based telecommunications company the solution necessary to successfully compete with
traditional telecommunications companies.'', stated Philip Davis, President of Intasys.
''Together, JBill and XACCTusage create a solution that's greater than the sum of their parts,'' said Anil Uberoi, vice president of marketing at XACCT. ''JBill
integrates seamlessly with XACCT technology, offering service providers unprecedented data collection, billing functionality, and, ultimately, more control over their
business.'' Comprehensive Data for Billing
XACCT's flagship product, XACCTusage, provides a single point of interface between the IP network infrastructure and the CCB application for usage data collection
as well as automated service provisioning. This multi-source, multi-layer mediation solution captures comprehensive and accurate usage data from a multitude of
network elements such as routers, switches, firewalls, and application servers and refines it into XACCT Detail Records, or XDRs(tm), that are similar to the Call
Detail Records (CDRs) generated by telephone switches (exchanges). Service providers can use XDRs to generate flexible, innovative pricing models and usage-based
bills. By leveraging the end-to-end, automated User Account Provisioning capabilities of XACCTusage, service providers can implement self-care or self-registration
programs and thus lower call-center costs. Automated provisioning also lets service providers benefit from instant service activation and revenue capture.
Intasys and XACCT will leverage each other's experience to provide an end-to-end subscriber management solution for telecommunications companies seeking to
offer usage-sensitive pricing for Internet-based services. Using XACCT's mediation software and Intasys' highly configurable rating engine, our clients will have the
ability to rate IP-based usage on factors like bandwidth, transaction time and quality-of-service. Because the Intasys JBill product represents a fully convergent rating
and billing engine, our clients will be able to bundle these new IP-based services, such as messaging and video-conferencing, with more traditional telecommunications
services, including wireless and traditional long-distance. About XACCT Technologies
XACCT Technologies, Inc., is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. The company has established itself as the market leader in the emerging IP mediation market.
XACCT develops a new class of intelligent software solutions that enable Service Providers and enterprises to accurately account and bill for metered services and
applications. Data Communications magazine recognized XACCT as one of the ''Top 25 Hot Startups of 1998'' and named XACCTusage as one of the ''Hot Products
of 1999''. In addition, XACCT was one of the six companies named to the ''Winners Circle: Software Companies to Watch'' in Telecommunications magazine's March
'99 issue. XACCTusage also received ''Most Innovative Billing Product'' recognition at the Billing Systems 1999 Conference and Exhibition in April. XACCT was
named one of ''The Lucky 13'' in Telecommunications magazine's June '99 issue. XACCT markets its software directly and through network systems integrators to
Service Providers and Fortune 1000 companies. A privately held corporation, XACCT is funded by venture capital investors. More information is available at
xacct.com.
About Intasys
Intasys Corporation, offices in Toronto, Atlanta, Ottawa, London, Edinburgh, Sydney and Kiev, is an emerging global force in the subscriber management industry.
The company provides convergent customer care and billing solutions on a bureau and license basis to clients in the wireless and wireline telephony, cable TV,
Internet, and energy industries. Its state-of-the-art, Year 2000 compliant systems provide complete, convergent subscriber management and billing functionality with
full Internet integration. Further information on the company, its products and services is available at this address: 150 Isabella Street, Suite 600, Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada K1S 1V7, or on the Internet at www.intasys.com.
XACCTusage and XDR are trademarks of XACCT Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders Statements contained in this
press release which are not historical facts are forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such
forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that can cause actual results to differ materially from estimated results. Such risks and uncertainties
are detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Any and all statements made regarding Year 2000 are hereby designated by
Intasys as ''Year 2000 Readiness Disclosure'' pursuant to the Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Act.
Contact:
Intasys Corporation
Alastair Dow, adow@ca.intasys.com
or
XACCT Technologies, Inc.
Anil Uberoi, anil@xacct.com
or
Gallagher PR
Mark Lederhos, mark@gpr.com |
