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April 2010

(press1) - Echtzeitdaten und herausragende Visualisierung verschaffen Carrier Call auf dem Telco-Markt einen entscheidenden Wettbewerbsvorteil

Frankfurt, 22. April 2010 - Carrier Call, Hersteller von komplexen Softwarelösungen für den Telekommunikationsmarkt, nutzt für seine modulare Telekommunikationslösung XCarrier, die Reporting-Engine JasperReports von Jaspersoft. Die graphische Java-Berichtsbibliothek wurde vollständig in die Lösung zur Generierung und Verwaltung von hochkomplexen Abläufen, Datenkorrelationen und Leistungskennzahlen eingebettet. Damit ermöglicht der Marktführer für Open Source Business Intelligence Lösungen den Kunden seines ISV-Partners Carrier Call Echtzeit-Einblicke in unternehmenskritische Daten sowie eine optimierte Visualisierung ihrer Reports.

Mit der Einbindung der bewährten Reporting-Engine in XCarrier konnte Carrier Call den Kundenanforderungen nach graphisch ausgereiften und flexibel aufbereitbaren Reportings umfassend gerecht werden. Ein weiterer Vorteil der Jaspersoft Reporting-Lösung ist zudem die sehr hohe Leistungsfähigkeit, mit der auch extrem große Datenmengen verarbeitet werden können. Denn gerade in der Telekommunikationsbranche fallen sehr hohe Datenvolumina an, die es ohne Leistungsabfall zu prozessieren gilt. Dabei bewegt sich die Menge an Voice-Minuten und Verbindungsnachweisen im zwei- bis dreistelligen Millionen-Bereich, wodurch Volumina im Gigabyte-Bereich ausgewertet werden müssen.

Carrier arbeiten heute mit einer Vielzahl von BSS (Business Support System), OSS (Operational Support System) und Billing-Systemen und haben ausufernde IT-Infrastrukturen. Ihre Daten werden nicht zentral gelagert, sondern befinden sich in Silos verteilt über das gesamte Unternehmen. Betreiber haben keinen umfassenden Überblick über ihre Prozesse. Die Voice Trading Plattform von Carrier Call ermöglicht es Anwendern, alle ihre Wholesale-Geschäftsprozesse über eine einzige Plattform zu steuern: Preislisten zu erstellen und importieren, Destinationen und Codes abzugleichen und abzustimmen, Sprachvermittlungssysteme bereitzustellen und vieles mehr.

"Sowohl kleine als auch größere Unternehmen wollen Reporting-Lösungen für den Unternehmenseinsatz, die ihnen interaktive und dynamische Visualisierungsfunktionen bereitstellen", erklärt Markus Wehinger, CCO bei Carrier Call GmbH. "Mit JasperReports geben wir unseren Kunden ein Werkzeug an die Hand, das genau diese Funktionsvielfalt bietet und darüber hinaus auch bei großen Datenmengen nicht in die Knie geht."

Besonders für das Voice Trading, dem tagesaktuellen Handel von Gesprächsminuten, ist es geschäftsentscheidend, Daten quasi in Echtzeit abrufen und in aussagekräftigen Reports visuell darstellen zu können. Denn diese Daten stellen bei Preisverhandlungen für den Ein- und Verkauf von Voice-Minuten die Entscheidungsgrundlage dar. Mit dem Einsatz der XCarrier-Lösung und dem darin eingebetteten JasperReports-Tool können Voice Trader in kürzester Zeit große Datenvolumen bearbeiten und aussagekräftige Graphiken erstellen - so können z.B. Management-Reports direkt aus dem System erstellt werden.

Das Open-Source-Entwicklungsmodells von Jaspersoft wiederum ermöglicht es Carrier Call, zum einen das Reporting exakt an die speziellen Anforderungen seiner Kunden anzupassen und zum anderen seine Lösungen zu einem besonders attraktiven Preis anzubieten.

Informationen über Carrier Call
Carrier Call stellt Lösungen für komplexe Problemstellungen im internationalen Telekommunikationsmarkt her. Das schweizerische Softwareunternehmen entwickelt alle Lösungen im eigenen Haus basierend auf langjährigem industriespezifischem Fachwissen und den Erfahrungen und Rückmeldungen von Carrier Call Kunden. Mit Hilfe eines auf anerkannten Standards basierenden Entwicklungsframeworks werden die Lösungen entworfen, entwickelt, ausgetestet und in die Kundenumgebung eingepasst. Das Framework basiert auf Komponenten von weltweit führenden Firmen wie Oracle (Datenbank), SUN (Java), Canoo (Rich Interactive Client), Enterest OEM Workbench (Conversion Module), JasperSoft (Reporting) und ermöglicht ein extrem schnelles Umsetzen von Ideen und sich ändernden Anforderungen (business agility) an das tägliche Handelsgeschäft. Die modulare Telekommunikationslösung XCarrier ist eine Software Suite, welche neben dem traditionellen Software Lizenzierungs-Modell auch als ASP und SaaS Lizenz Modell angeboten wird. Weitere Informationen sind erhältlich unter http://www.carriercall.com.
 
Pressekontakt:
Markus Wehinger
Fax: +41 56 4434104
E-Mail: mailto:mwehinger@carriercall.com

Informationen über Jaspersoft Corporation
Mit mehr als zehn Millionen Produktdownloads weltweit und über 12.000 kommerziellen Kunden in 100 Ländern ist die Open Source Business Intelligence Suite von Jaspersoft die weltweit am häufigsten eingesetzte BI-Lösung. Jaspersoft bietet einen webbasierten, offenen und modularen Ansatz und ist somit in der Lage, auf die wachsenden Anforderungen an unternehmensweite BI einzugehen. Jaspersoft ist zudem der einzige BI-Anbieter, der Unternehmen Multi-Mandantenfähigkeit und eine gemeinsame Plattform für On-Premise-, virtualisierte, SaaS- und Cloud-Implementierungen bietet. Die Produkte von Jaspersoft umfassen das Kontinuum der Kern-BI-Anforderungen, wie Produktionsberichte, operationale und eingebettete Berichte, interaktive Endnutzer-Abfragen und Berichte, Dashboards und Mash-ups, Datenanalyse und -integration. Die BI Software wird kontinuierlich von der Entwicklergemeinde aktualisiert. Diese ist mit über 120.000 registrierten Mitgliedern und über 350 Projekten die größte Business Intelligence Community der Welt. Weitere Informationen sind erhältlich unter: http://www.jaspersoft.com sowie http://www.jasperforge.org.

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June 2008

Carrier Call and Versatel agree on extended cooperation.

Versatel is using the software solutions and services of the Swiss solutions provider Carrier Call to build out the Voice Carrier business unit.

Carrier Call is responsible for consulting, delivery, installation; integration and long term build out of a complex trading- and administration-application to the telecommunication solutions business unit responsible for Versatel’s carrier domain.

Versatel performed over the last six month an intensive and detailed evaluation process comparing the solutions of all major providers; we are pleased that Carrier Call was selected by Versatel. Carrier Call has shown high flexibility and convinced Versatel with its agility to adapt to changing requirements. Being able to realize the complex project within the given time-frame Carrier Call was able to outperform its competition.

The integrated solution offered by Carrier Call forms the basis of Versatel’s Next Generation Network (NGN).

The solution contains delivery and integration of:
 

• The Voice Trading Platform XCarrier by Carrier Call containing all required and automated interfaces to existing systems.

• The complete Rating and Guiding Platform XRate

• The fully built out Traffic and Quality Management Platform XStat

• The XBilat application to handle and administer bilateral agreements and to supervise the fulfillment.

• The comprehensive XConverter Platform to convert and aggregate binary data streams generated by Voice Switches.

Schinznach-Dorf,  June 23, 2008 – Carrier Call, provider of integrated software solutions to solve the complex problems of the telecommunications domain is pleased to announce Versatel, one of the largest providers of Voice-, Internet- and Data- Services for Private and Business customers as a new significant customer of its fully integrated XCarrier by Carrier Call solution.

XCarrier by Carrier Call is an extensive integrated product suite based on most modern decentralized client/server technologies. The software solution supports highly complex business processes in gathering, matching, analyzing and maintaining data related to telecommunications voice carrier services. Data encompasses destination code lists (DCL), price lists and call detail records (CDR) just to name a few. Underlying data allows making informed decisions in real time and ties seamlessly into operational systems

The XCarrier solution serves as Input System by gathering data from other systems, but also as output system with capabilities including generation of sales side price list and configuration files for voice switches to support least cost routing (LCR).

The XCarrier integrated Voice Trading Platform uses a central repository as a solid base to eliminate data matching errors between external offers and internal systems, to improve and refine the quality of data and to optimize operational systems and routing. Carrier Calls solutions allow decisions-, business- and operational- support and help automating key processes.

All these factors help to increase margins, improve profitability and allow crystallizing new components in the value chain to define new sources of income.
Improved margins and new services are key issues for Telecommunications Operators to consolidate market position and secure leadership in very competitive markets. .

The XCarrier Voice Trading Platform supports traditional fix-net telephony, mobile telephony and telephony using IP infrastructure (VoIP). The complete solution, as used by Versatel, builds an important part for any service provider building a NGN (Next Generation Network) of integrated services.

About Versatel

Versatel AG is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Frankfurt: VTW) and is one of the largest alternative providers of voice, Internet and data services for residential and business customers on the German market. Versatel has a strong local and regional presence in the German broadband market. Covering 12 of the 16 German states and 28 of the 50 largest German cities, the company has a market coverage – based on its own calculations – equivalent to some 25% of all German households in the potential coverage range. Versatel is Germany’s third largest infrastructure-based telecommunications provider in terms of revenue. In 2007, the company generated preliminary sales of €700 million and had over 680,000 customers under contract at the end of the year. Versatel has a workforce of approximately 1,400 at 14 locations.

Further information: www.versatel.de

About Carrier Call

Carrier Call builds solutions to solve the complex problems of the international telecommunications market. The Swiss Software and Services Company develop all solutions with its own development team in-house. Carrier Call uses its long-term industry specific knowledge as well as feedback from customers to constantly refine and enhance its solutions.  Software is designed, developed and tested using a standards based framework. Components of leading technology companies like Oracle (Data Base), SUN Microsystems (Java), Canoo (Rich Interactive Client),  Enterest EDR Workbench (OEM conversion Module), JasperSoft (Reporting) allow fast realization of solutions based on changing market needs. The Modular XCarrier by Carrier Call Voice Trading Platform is a software suite provided under a traditional software license agreement but is also made available as ASP and SaaS (Software as a Service) offering.

Full Pressrelease on Pressportal
 

August 2007

Carrier Call and Kabel Deutschland agree on broad strategic collaboration.

As part of a strategic relationship Kabel Deutschland decides to use software solutions and professional services offered by Carrier Call, a Swiss Software Company, to continue the development of their voice carrier business.

As part of this collaboration Carrier Calls provides professional services related to the delivery, installation, integration and deployment of a Voice Trading Platform for the Voice Carrier Business. Carrier Calls integrated solution is used as basis of Kabel Deutschlands Next Generation Network (NGN). Carrier Call will deploy the following components, all part of the integrated solution

• The Voice Trading Platform XCarrier by Carrier Call including the required and automated interfaces to other systems.

• The complete wholesale billing platform XRate

• The complete Traffic and Quality Management platform XStat

• The complete Reconciliation platform XRecon

Schinznach-Dorf, 31. August 2007 – Carrier Call, manufacturer of complex software solutions for the telecommunications industry adds Kabel Deutschland, Germany’s largest cable net operator to the list of clients for its integrated solution XCarrier by Carrier Call.

XCarrier by Carrier Call is an integrated product suite based on most modern client/server technologies. The software solution supports highly complex business processes in gathering, matching, analyzing and maintaining data related to telecommunications voice carrier services. Data encompasses destination code lists (DCL), price lists and call detail records (CDR) just to name a few. Underlying data allows making informed decisions in real time and ties seamlessly into operational systems.

The XCarrier solution serves as Input System by gathering data from other systems, but also as output system with capabilities including generation of sales side price list and configuration files for voice switches to support least cost routing (LCR).

The XCarrier integrated Voice Trading Platform uses a central repository as a solid base to eliminate data matching errors between external offers and internal systems, to improve and refine the quality of data and to optimize operational systems and routing. Carrier Calls solutions allow decisions-, business- and operational- support and help automating key processes. All these factors help to increase margins, improve profitability and allow crystallizing new components in the value chain to define new sources of income. Improved margins and new services are key for a Telecommunications Operators to consolidate market position and secure leadership in very competitive markets.

The XCarrier Voice Trading Platform supports traditional fix-net telephony, mobile telephony and telephony using IP infrastructure (VoIP). The complete solution, as used by Kabel Deutschland, builds an important part for any service provider building a NGN (Next Generation Network) of integrated services.

About Kabel Deutschland

Kabel Deutschland (KDG) operates cable networks in 13 German states and supplies its services to more than 9 million connected TV households in Germany. Kabel Deutschland is Germany's largest cable network operator. The company develops and markets new triple play offers for digital TV, high-speed Internet and telephone connection via cable. KDG offers an open digital TV platform for all program providers. The company operates the networks, markets cable connections and provides comprehensive services for all matters of cable connectivity. In fiscal year 2006/2007 (12 months ended March 31, 2007), Kabel Deutschland reported a total revenue of approx. EUR 1.1 billion. The company has around 2,700 employees.

About Carrier Call

Carrier Call builds solutions to solve the complex problems of the international telecommunications market. The Swiss Software and Services Company develop all solutions with its own development team in-house. Carrier Call uses its long-term industry specific knowledge as well as feedback from customers to constantly refine and enhance its solutions.  Software is designed, developed and tested using a standards based framework. Components of leading technology companies like Oracle (Data Base), SUN Microsystems (Java) and Canoo (Rich Interactive Client) allow fast realization of solutions based on changing market needs. The Modular XCarrier by Carrier Call Voice Trading Platform is a software suite provided under a traditional software license agreement but is also made available as ASP and SaaS (Software as a Service) offering.

Full Pressrelease on Pressportal

July 2007

XCarrier by Carrier Call available on Oracle 11g
In an increasingly competitive world, business executives depend on Information Technology (IT) to make more effective use of information, streamline business processes and control costs.
July 11th, 2007 - Carrier Call Ltd. today announces the availability of its voice trading solution XCarrier by Carrier Call, based on the Oracle Database 11g. Shortly after the Oracle Database release 11g is made available to the public. The new XCarrier by Carrier Call release benefits from new features and capabilities of Oracle 11g. Customers and users of XCarrier by Carrier Call benefit immediately from new functionality and performance enhancements of the database release.

Features are:

• New partitioning capabilities make it easier to deploy multiple storage tiers based on activity and manage information throughout it's entire lifecycle,

• New Advanced Compression Option reduces the amount of storage required and helps businesses maximizing storage usage and reducing overall costs while maintaining the highest levels of system availability and performance, and

• SecureFiles compression and deduplication improves the performance and security of file-based data stored in the database providing an excellent infrastructure for the storage of complex data types.

As a member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, Carrier Call Ltd. continues to set new standards in the telecommunication wholesale carrier industry by implementing the markets first voice trading platform based on Oracle 11g. Voice trading customers demand a highly scalable backend with extreme short response times. Inter carrier voice minute trading is a real-time activity where inadequate performance of the trading system can cause loss of revenue, loss of customers or increased cost. To guarantee positive margins you need to be able to make the best offer to your customers at the right time. Only a system based on a platform like Oracle 11g with high performance and high scalability delivers customer satisfaction and guarantees economic success in a high volume, small margin business. These are the reasons why Carrier Call Ltd. relies since the first release of the XCarrier by Carrier Call voice trading system on Oracle application server and Oracle database technology.

XCarrier by Carrier Call is the first fully integrated enterprise voice trading platform for a new generation of ambitious wholesale voice carriers. Improved margins, increased revenue opportunities, elimination of code mismatches and optimized operating efficiencies through XCarrier deliver the key fundamentals to stay ahead of the competition in today’s fast changing voice carrier market. Voice carriers must improve profitability through cost management while finding new ways to generate revenue. Consequently, managing product portfolios and automating business processes are the key strategies for safeguarding the long-term financial health of voice carriers. Carrier Call’s XCarrier enables carriers worldwide to optimize and automate their business decisions and supports building additional value and profitability. XCarrier combines and improves financial and operational aspects of a business. XCarrier enables and supports streamlined business processes, providing the business with full control over the financial and operational aspects of an improved margin management system. XCarrier is a highly scalable enterprise system that adapts to current and future needs and grows with your business.

Full Pressrelease on Pressportal

April 2007

Carrier Call starts an international advertisement campaign showing the benefits of the XCarrier by Carrier Call SaaS (Software as a Service) offering. XCarrier by Carrier Call is offered as pure software license, ASP package or SaaS offering. These different levels make XCarrier suitable for voice carriers of all sizes. Whether new startup voice carrier, VoIP carrier, cable network provider with triple play offering or large sized multinational voice carriers; Carrier Call has an offer that suits your size and needs. The demand of buying services instead of pure software licenses grew dramatically over the last half year. Customers prefer integrated service solutions over pure software licensing. Attractive pricing and flexible licensing made the new SaaS model the right choice for any telecommunication carrier or carrier with old legacy software solutions in place which can be replaced through our service offering. Download our whitepapers from our document download area to see how you can benefit from XCarrier by Carrier Call and how your investment will be paid back in short time.

January 2007

Telecom Advisors International S.A. announces the availability of the XCarrier Product Suite as a SaaS (software as a service) offering as a managed service for the Latin America and the Caribbean market. XCarrier is a complete solution for international wholesale carriers with modules for carrier margin management and least cost routing processes. Telecom Advisors International S.A. as qualified and preferred partner will host XCarrier for the Latin America and Caribbean market in their Hosting Center in Panama City. Customers with SaaS or ASP needs have direct regional access to a secure and professionally hosted environment. Regional Support in local languages and access to premium class services allows carriers in Latin America and the Caribbean regions to grow and improve the quality of their important wholesale business.

Announcement from Telecom Advisors International S.A.

May 2006

Telecom Advisors International S.A. announces availability of the XCarrier voice trading platform and related consultancy services  for the Latin America market.
Telecom Advisors International S.A. attends the TeleManagement World  in Nice from May 15 - 18, 2006 and will have demonstrate the new XCarrier voice trading platform in their exhibition booth.

Announcement from Telecom Advisors International S.A.

March 2006

Canoo Engineering AG is announcing the availability of the XCarrier 4.0 trading platform. A case study about the Carrier Call voice carrier  trading platform is available on the canoo Engineering AG web-site.

Announcement and case study voice carrier trading platform

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