Business Patners

Bulgarian Telecommunication Company (BTC)
E-Plus Mobilfunk
Capgemini
CSC - Computer Sciences Corporation
Pago eTransaction

Partners we do Business with -
Providing Value to their Business

The basis for long-term and successful business relationships is providing value to the customers and the system integrators B4E is working with. Only if our business partners find confirmation of what B4E is promising with regard to its project services and, with even importance, with regard to the capabilities of B-oo-levard® we can achieve mutually fruitful relationships. This means for B4E: more than just accomplishing ...

Of course, the main task for B4E is to provide and implement its real-time and truly convergent charging, rating and billing system. In light of the vast capabilities of B-oo-levard® the benefits for our customers are multitude and immense, ranging from creating any tariff plan for every service and product in any manner for any customer up to achieving organisational efficiencies due to its SelfAssembly Process and its True Convergence. B4E's overall goal is to support the customer in achieving and maintaining a unique leading role in its market (as much as charging, rating and billing play a role) while reducing the billing related cost to a minimum level.

System integrators and IT service providers form a vital part in B4E's approach to the market by offering proven integration capabilities. This is evident in the implementation and support of new technologies as used by B4E. For system integration partners, B4E offers true value in customer relationships through vendor independence: the customer is free to choose the best systems available based on his own criteria.

Bulgarian Telecommunication Company

Last year, the Bulgarian government sold the majority 65 percent stake in the Bulgarian Telecommunication Company (BTC) - with currently about 2.5 million customers the country's largest fixed-line telecom - to Viva Ventures Holding GmbH, a Vienna-based unit of U.S. equity fund Advent International. In January, the minority package was sold off at the Sofia stock exchange to a number of smaller investors.

Along with the privatization BTC has undergone strongest changes, e.g. with the digitization of the network. Due to that and the increasing market requirements the billing process needed to be renovated as well. Within just 15 weeks Capgemini and B4E could implement the truly convergent Charging, Rating, and Billing system B-oo-levard® for all of BTCs fixed line customers for voice and Internet using pulse-based communication, ISDN, and DSL.

In addition, tariff simulations have been conveyed by th Capgemini/B4E team during the implementation, in order to support BTC in the approval process for BTCs new pricing schemas.

E-Plus Mobilfunk, Germany

Thorsten Dirks

Thorsten Dirks, Executive Vice President Innovation, Product Development, IT, and Operations at E-Plus: "We are very much impressed by how fast and to which cost we could implement so many rate plans with B-oo-levard®.”

With more than 9,5 million customers E-Plus is the third-largest mobile phone provider in Germany. E-Plus business is based on profitable growth and its activities are guided strictly by operating results. Therefore E-Plus focuses on business and private target groups with a high turnover.

E-Plus’ shareholders are KPN Mobile N.V. with 77.49 per cent and Royal KPN N.V. with 22.51 per cent. E-Plus reported a revenue of 2.751 billion euros for 2004.

Capgemini

Capgemini Telecommunication Media & Networks in Germany is running the B-oo-levard® software in an outsourcing mode since mid 2002. Says Joseph Kronfli, Managing Director of Capgemini TMN Germany: "From the beginning of our co-operation with B4E we have been highly satisfied with the responsiveness and highly qualified support of their team. I am delighted to say, that due to the excellent operational performance of B-oo-levard®, we have been able to continuously over-perform the strict conditions of our Service Level Agreements with the customer. As of today, B-oo-levard® proves to be an almost zero fault system."

The Capgemini Group is one of the world's largest providers of Consulting, Technology and Outsourcing services. The company helps businesses implement growth strategies and leverage technology. The organisation employs approximately 50,000 people worldwide and reported 2002 global revenues of 7.047 billion euros. The Group offers its services to local and international clients in more than 30 countries.

CSC Computer Sciences Corporation

In an early stage of the B-oo-levard® product development CSC devoted significant staff to help B4E in transfer especially accounting related concepts into Java software. On the other side, CSC could learn this way a lot about this real-time rating and billing system which will result in execellent further co-operation when implementing B-oo-levard®.

Pago eTransactions

“The cost for a high performance billing system runs into the millions. On the other hand, such systems are indispensable tools for ensuring customer retention. Through the collaboration with B4E, small and medium-sized companies will be given the opportunity for the first time, to use an intelligent rating and billing system without having to purchase the complete system”, says Rüdiger Trautmann, CEO at Pago.

With Pago’s eBusiness services, eCommerce providers as well as traditional businesses can carry out all back-office transactions. Pago offers integrated financial services such as payments, invoice generation, address verification, risk assessment (Scoring), individual-based credit assessment, and accounts receivable. Customers include Berlin.de, Buch.de, Daimler-Chrysler, EP:Netshop, liegestuhl24.de, Sonera zed Germany, VICTORVOX, and WEB.DE.