Amdocs to consolidate Elisa's eight legacy wireless, wireline, Internet
and cable TV billing systems; Amdocs will also deliver an enterprise-wide
master product catalog
HELSINKI, Finland and ST. LOUIS, June 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Elisa
Corporation (HEL: Elisa A), Finland's leading provider of wireless, wireline,
broadband Internet and cable TV services, and Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), the leading
provider of customer experience systems, today announced that they have signed
a six-year managed services and billing consolidation agreement. Under the
terms of the agreement, Amdocs will immediately assume responsibility for
day-to-day management and maintenance of the Amdocs billing, ordering and
customer relationship management (CRM) software that was originally deployed
in 2007 to support Elisa's wireless operations.
In addition, Amdocs will consolidate Elisa's eight legacy wireless,
wireline, Internet and cable billing systems to establish a single, convergent
billing system. Amdocs will also deliver the Amdocs Enterprise Product Catalog
to serve as a master repository for all product information currently managed
in five different billing, ordering and self-service catalogs to enable Elisa
to better define, blend, bundle and price its entire offering portfolio.
About Elisa Corporation
Elisa Corporation is a leading Nordic communications services provider and
a publicly listed Eurotop-500 company, with operations in the Nordic
countries, the Baltics and Russia. We serve some 2 million consumers
regionally and around 15,000 enterprises internationally, offering a wide
range of subscriptions with services. We provide experiences for people and
enhance productivity for organisations online. Elisa focuses on developing
consumer and corporate ICT and online services. Our revenues for 2008 were EUR
1.49 billion and we employ approximately 2,900 people. Elisa's global alliance
partners are Vodafone and Telenor. For more information, visit www.elisa.com.
About Amdocs
Amdocs is the market leader in customer experience systems innovation,
enabling world-leading service providers to deliver an integrated, innovative
and intentional customer experience(TM) at every point of service. Amdocs
provides solutions that deliver customer experience excellence, combining the
software, services and expertise to help its customers execute their
strategies and achieve service, operational and financial excellence. A global
company with revenue of $3.16 billion in fiscal 2008, Amdocs has more than
17,000 employees and serves customers in more than 50 countries around the
world. For more information, visit Amdocs at www.amdocs.com.
Amdocs Forward-Looking Statement
This press release includes information that constitutes forward-looking
statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provision of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about Amdocs'
growth and business results in future quarters. Although we believe the
expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon
reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be
obtained or that any deviations will not be material. Such statements involve
risks and uncertainties that may cause future results to differ from those
anticipated. These risks include, but are not limited to, the effects of
general economic conditions, Amdocs' ability to grow in the business segments
it serves, adverse effects of market competition, rapid technological shifts
that may render the Company's products and services obsolete, potential loss
of a major customer, our ability to develop long-term relationships with our
customers, and risks associated with operating businesses in the international
market. Amdocs may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some
point in the future, however the Company specifically disclaims any obligation
to do so. These and other risks are discussed at greater length in the
Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in
our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2008,
filed on December 8, 2008, and in our quarterly 6-K furnished on February 9
and May 12, 2009.
SOURCE Amdocs
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/CONTACT: Kati Norppa Communications Manager of Elisa Corporation,
+358-0-50-308-9773, kati.norppa@elisa.fi; or Garland Harwood of Weber
Shandwick, +1-212-445-8373, gharwood@webershandwick.com, for Amdocs/
/Web Site: http://www.amdocs.com /
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