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Highdeal Signs Global Business Agreement with HPEnd-to-End Solution Helps Enable HP to Deliver Flexible Pricing and Billing Solutions to Next-Generation Service ProvidersREDWOOD SHORES, Calif. -December 10, 2002-Highdeal, a leading provider of dynamic transaction management software for telecommunications, content and online services, today announced a global business agreement with HP to enable the delivery of integrated, usage-based pricing solutions that help assure profitability for service providers. Under the terms of the global agreement, HP can resell, implement, and provide support for Highdeal Transactive(r), Highdeal's modular solution for flexible pricing, rating, and billing of next-generation services.Highdeal's dynamic transaction management software has been integrated with the HP Internet Usage Manager (IUM) usage mediation platform, and successful customer deployments of HP IUM and Highdeal Transactive are already in place. Highdeal's software has also been certified for interoperability, high-availability, and compatibility with HP MC/Serviceguard-a specialized facility for protecting mission-critical applications from a wide variety of hardware and software failures. "In order to profit from offers that include third-party content and services, service providers need a system that can manage complex business relationships," says Eric Pillevesse, CEO, Highdeal. "With powerful modeling, multiparty rating, real-time revenue tracking, and the ability to handle any type of service or price parameter, Highdeal's software is the ideal complement to HP's market leading products and integration services." "Services providers need maximum flexibility in the way services are rated, priced, and ultimately billed," says Volkhard Bregulla, NSP practice principal, HP Consulting and Integration. "Our relationship with Highdeal further enables HP to deliver complete solutions that unify service providers' front- and back-offices to give them greater visibility and responsiveness in the way services are delivered." "Highdeal Transactive enables dynamic pricing and rating of services, so companies can adapt to market volatility and assure accurate profit predictions for each intermediary in the value chain," says Paul Hughes, director, Billing and Payment Application Strategies, the Yankee Group. "HP's depth and breadth combined with Highdeal's dynamic transaction management capabilities give service providers worldwide, a comprehensive solution to employ next-generation business models." Highdeal's intuitive graphical user interface allows non-technical users, such as marketing executives, to easily model and create profitable price plans that can be implemented instantly. No coding is necessary-creating a significant time to market advantage. For example, service providers can use Highdeal's modular software to simulate profit margins from disparate services and then quickly implement optimized pricing for packages that include services and content from third parties. This same powerful modeling tool links directly to a carrier-grade rating module providing a common pricing platform across marketing, finance, sales and IT management. Highdeal's multiparty rating capabilities handle high volumes of transactions and using the relationships set up in the pricing tool, tracks them throughout the network of value partners. Advanced billing facilities provide customized reporting, billing capabilities that can produce reports on n-levels of account hierarchy - tracking usage down to the desktop level. About Highdeal Highdeal, a spin-off of France Telecom, provides a dynamic transaction management (DTM) solution for telecom, content, and online service providers in the form of integrated simulation, pricing, rating, and billing software. Highdeal's tools empower executives to manage the direct costs of third-party content and services and profitably share revenue with suppliers and resellers. Highdeal's products are now in use by a wide range of customers including wireless, wireline, and online service providers. Highdeal is a privately held company with North American headquarters in Redwood Shores, California, European headquarters in Paris, France, and UK offices in London. For more information, visit www.highdeal.com. Editorial Contact: Virginia Dimpfl HP 408/447-1695 virginia_dimpfl@hp.com top of page |
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