Romtelecom Selects Amdocs Partner Manager 7 and Systems Integration Services

Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), the leading provider of customer experience systems , announced today that Romtelecom, the largest telecommunications company in Romania offering wireline, Internet and satellite TV services, will deploy the Amdocs Partner Manager 7 product. With this deployment, Romtelecom will be upgrading an earlier version of the product deployed at Romtelecom in 2005 to support inter-carrier settlements. Amdocs Partner Manager 7 offers advanced tools for managing relationships with content partners and will allow Romtelecom to rapidly and cost-efficiently introduce new, partner-based, next generation content services such as voice and TV over Internet Protocol (IP). In addition, it will allow Romtelecom to launch number portability. Amdocs will serve as the systems integrator for the deployment.

Amdocs Partner Manager 7 is part of the Amdocs 7 suite which was launched in January 2007. It enables sophisticated and multi-party partner settlement scenarios, and will also allow Romtelecom to increase the market attractiveness and profitability of its existing lines of business including innovative satellite TV rating schemes based on number of viewers per location or program. This will also simplify the launch of new partner-based multi-play bundles and assure the capturing of the associated revenues.

“With the deployment of Amdocs Partner Manager 7, Amdocs will be providing us with unique partner settlement convergence and capabilities across inter-carrier and content partnerships -- a powerful engine for revenue growth at minimum total cost of ownership (TCO),” said Monica Savencu, Chief Division, Systems Development Directorate, Romtelecom. “Furthermore, Amdocs has already proven to us it can deliver. Tasking it once again with the systems integration role on top of providing the software, we will ensure additional TCO advantages.”

Amdocs Partner Manager automates the entire partnership lifecycle and provides a holistic view of the partner. It reduces time-to-market for new products through easy partner recruitment and management and the accelerated introduction of new partnership business models. It can support multiple partners of any scale and the accurate calculation of complex settlement agreements. O ffering partner self-care capabilities, it drives increased partner satisfaction while reducing the service provider’s operational costs. Its advancements in content partner settlement leverage numerous implementations of the product to support content partnerships.

“Amdocs 7 is the first industry-specific software suite that enables service providers to achieve and profit from convergence -- offering customers access to any service, over any network, at any time and on any device,” said Michael Matthews, chief marketing officer of Amdocs. “Amdocs Partner Manager 7 supports the complex requirements of convergence, reflecting the promise of Amdocs 7. It will help Romtelecom as it transforms from a traditional telephony provider into a retailer of multi-media and entertainment services to drive customer retention and adoption.”

Amdocs Partner Manager 7 offers built-in support for IMS-based offerings and incorporates service oriented architecture (SOA) capabilities. This ensures cost effectiveness when integrating with third party software and, ultimately, enhanced interoperability in a next generation, truly convergent environment.