OVERLAND PARK, Kan. and LONDON, June 12, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- TMNG Global (Nasdaq:TMNG), a leading provider of management consulting services to the communications, media and entertainment industries and Cartesian, a TMNG Global company and a leading technical consulting and software development company for the telecoms industry, today announced the launch of Ascertain(tm) Inter Systems Reconciliation (ISR) 5, the next generation of Cartesian's subscription assurance solution. Specifically, the new version will deliver an effective, automated product for subscription assurance and data integrity across any number of platforms for cable, fixed-line, or mobile operators offering telephony, broadband or TV services.
Ascertain(tm) is a flexible, configurable revenue management and data integrity toolset that has been successfully deployed in Europe for 7 years by Cartesian, which underpins the launch of the Ascertain solutions for the US cable and broadband market at the recent NCTA Cable Show.
"Today's increasingly transient subscriber base, combined with an expanding and converged service offering, presents tremendous challenges for operators in assuring the accuracy of its subscriber information. The fifth generation of our Ascertain Framework draws on our many and varied customer engagements across the digital video, broadband, content and telephony space," said Jim Baker, Chief Technology Officer at Cartesian. "This updated version of our automated subscription assurance tool combined with Cartesian's track record assures that operators will greatly reduce revenue leakage, ensure that services are being properly ordered and subsequently billed, and that expensive network assets and resources are freed up after use."
Ascertain(tm) ISR delivers significant cost savings for operators by automating the mechanics of subscriber assurance. Traditionally, customers had to deal with complex and error prone manual processes during inter systems reconciliation. By implementing an Ascertain automated solution, users can avoid these difficulties and are able implement revenue assurance programs with minimal operational expense. Furthermore, the solution ensures that legal and regulatory requirements are adhered to by facilitating accuracy in billing and service provision.
The solution provides operators with an in-depth reconciliation and monitoring environment through which they can effectively analyze the subscriber lifecycle while accurately tracking their provisioning patterns. This will help customers to better prepare for any unexpected scenarios and challenges that may arise as they continue to expand their service offerings on multiple service lines. In addition, Ascertain ISR users will also have access to an assisted correction option that enables rapid clean-up of any errors or exceptions encountered to ensure automated and immediate resolution of data integrity issues.
Ascertain ISR 5 builds upon the 4 previous major releases of the existing reconciliation solution Ascertain RDA, providing significant functionality improvements, including:
* An enhanced user experience through performance and usability
improvements
* Enhanced user-defined reporting capabilities including the
Business Intelligence Reporting Tool and OLAP analytics
* Enhanced graphical visualization of end-to-end systems and
processes
* Automated production of key performance indicators via enhanced
user-configurable dashboards
* Sophisticated financial reconciliation capability to reconcile
wholesale versus retail costs over time
* Extended integration of Case Management for exception handling.
To learn more about the Ascertain ISR 5 Subscription Solution, please visit: www.cartesian.co.uk/products.
To learn more about the Ascertain Offering launched in May, please visit http://www.tmng.com/Practices/BusinessSystemsandProcesses/DigitalServicesAssurance/RevenueAssurance/Ascertain/tabid/266/Default.aspx
About Cartesian
Cartesian, a TMNG Global Company, is an independent technical consulting and software development company, delivering products and services to the telecoms industry. Cartesian's expertise covers networks, engineering, and technology, through to revenue assurance and billing. Ascertain is Cartesian's widely-deployed suite of software tools which address the revenue assurance and data integrity needs of telecoms operators. With these tools we can prove rating accuracy, reconcile customer data, analyze and reconcile event records, prove completeness of processing, and monitor trends and volumes. All this can be done in an automated manner to provide reassurance all day, every day.
About TMNG Global
TMNG Global (Nasdaq:TMNG) is a leading provider of professional services to the converging communications industry. Its companies, TMNG, CSMG, Cartesian and TWG Consulting, and its base of over 600 consultants, have provided strategy, management, and technical consulting, as well as products and services, to more than 1200 communications service providers, entertainment, media, and technology companies and financial services firms worldwide. The company is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, with offices in Boston, Chicago, London, New Jersey, New York, Shanghai and Washington, D.C.
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