Atreus Systems and Natural Convergence
Empower Carriers to Offer Self-Serve Business Communication Bundle
Strategic partnership enables Enterprise users to activate
and manage next-generation voice services
Cupertino, CA – March
17, 2003 – Atreus Systems, a service fulfillment leader
for IP services and applications, and Natural Convergence,
a pioneer of broadband communications software for telecom carriers,
today announced the signing of a joint sales and marketing agreement.
This partnership enables the companies to offer a seamless self-serve
solution for telecom carriers to create and deliver comprehensive
business communication bundles. The carriers’ enterprise customers
are now able to activate and manage all their services – including
voice services, voicemail, email, remote access, etc. – through
one single interface.
"Through our teaming with visionary partners
like Atreus Systems, we are capitalizing on the growing trend towards service
convergence, a concept that allows the carrier to provide and manage all
of the communication lifelines – voice, data, and web – for
its customers," said Natural Convergence CEO David Cork. "With
this unique self-serve solution we are drastically reducing the complexity
and the operating expense of managing communication services – a
clear advantage for the carrier and the business owner alike."
The enhanced product offering combines the Natural Convergence virtual key system
(VKS) solution, a robust offering of small business voice services, with the
Atreus xAuthority™ Solution, a service fulfillment platform that enables
carriers to simplify the creation and activation of IP-based network, application
and content services. The combined solution enables carriers to cost-effectively
evolve into one-stop communications shops, offering voice services, customized
data, video services, hosted business applications, localized content, billing
services and other managed IP offerings.
Atreus xAuthority™ is a carrier-grade, service creation and activation
software platform that enables carriers and service providers to automate the
provisioning and delivery of advanced IP services and applications. Designed
to scale to millions of subscribers, Atreus xAuthority offers a compelling solution
capable of unifying front-end, customer-facing service portals with the back-end
OSSs that execute service authentication, activation and billing across the network.
At the front end, a carrier’s customer dynamically selects from a menu
of services. At the back end, service definition, activation, billing and management
are automated across multiple systems, equipment and computing technologies.
With the integration of Natural Convergence’s virtual key system into the
solution, carriers can now also offer mission critical, self-serve voice services
with all the essential features of a modern phone system, delivered over a carrier’s
broadband data network.
"Natural Convergence offers carriers an innovative approach for delivering
voice services to their small, medium business customers," said Ken
Workun, Director, Business Development at Atreus Systems. "Our
customers are demanding total solutions that will allow them to deliver high-margin,
value-added services quickly, reliably and profitably. This partnership allows
us to address the stated need of our customers to deliver cost-effective, comprehensive
communications bundles.
About Natural ConvergenceNatural Convergence is an Ottawa based software
company that develops and markets Broadband communications software to
Telecom carriers, enabling them to better serve their business customers.
The company was founded in April 2001 and is financed by leading venture
capital firms including Venture Investment Management Company, BDC, Primaxis,
Jefferson Partners, Desjardins Venture Capital Group, and Purple Angel.
For more information, visit www.naturalconvergence.com or call 613-725-2030.
About Atreus SystemsAtreus Systems™ is the service fulfillment
leader for IP services and applications. Atreus' flagship product, the
xAuthority™ Service Fulfillment Solution, is a service creation and
activation software platform that helps carriers, service providers, enterprise
customers, and wireless and cable operators to provision and deliver advanced
IP services while reducing operational expenses and leveraging existing
network CAPEX investments. Atreus Systems, headquartered in Cupertino,
California, is a privately held company financed by leading telecom venture
capital firms Mobius Venture Capital, Blueprint Ventures, Skypoint Capital
Corporation, BDC Venture Capital and Aliant, Inc. For more information,
visit the company's web site at www.atreus-systems.com or
call (800) 764-5514 (North America).
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