Amdocs Announces Support for Service Providers Seeking to Offer and Monetize Cloud-Based Services

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Mon Oct 5, 2009 6:29am EDT

Amdocs Announces Support for Service Providers Seeking to Offer and Monetize
Cloud-Based Services
Service providers can evolve their corporate business models to bill
enterprise and corporate customers for cloud-based services





GENEVA, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- At ITU TELECOM WORLD 2009, Amdocs
(NYSE: DOX), the leading provider of customer experience systems, today
announced it is providing support for service providers that are delivering
cloud-based services to their corporate and enterprise customers.


Corporate customers are turning to both service providers and others companies
that provide cloud-based offerings such as software-as-a-service (SaaS),
infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that allow
them to source infrastructure and support for different  IT applications --
such as e-mail, web conferencing, system security, system backup, disk space,
and enterprise resource planning (ERP). According to an IDC report*:
"Worldwide Telecom Cloud Billing 2009-2013 Forecast", revenues from Telecom
cloud billing are expected to more than double by 2013, reaching more than
$350 million.  


Both service providers and SaaS providers can now use the Amdocs Convergent
Billing solution to provide cloud-based services for these customers. Amdocs'
solution for cloud-based services incorporates Amdocs CES products, including
billing, charging and mediation. The solutions are packaged with pre-defined
business processes, and are offered out-of-the-box for a quick and easy
deployment.


In addition to supporting service providers' cloud-based services, Amdocs
Convergent Billing solution enables service providers to offer and bill for
advanced corporate services that are not delivered via a hosted business
model, such as shared allowances, group-level offerings, and flexible discount
mechanisms. Using Amdocs "Turbo Charging" technology, service providers can
offer corporate customers real-time postpaid services such as notifications
and usage information about their services consumption. As a result, service
providers can offer a complete suite of corporate services to their customers,
supported by one Amdocs solution.


* IDC, Worldwide Telecom Cloud Billing 2009-2013 Forecast, Doc # 217313, May
2009


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 approximately
17,000 employees and serves customers in more than 50 countries around the
world. For more information, visit Amdocs at www.amdocs.com.


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,
May 12, and August 10, 2009. 




SOURCE  Amdocs

Garland Harwood of Weber Shandwick, +1-212-445-8373,
gharwood@webershandwick.com, for Amdocs
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