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Ceon, Highdeal and Visionael Launch Joint End-to-End B/OSS Solution that Seamlessly Supports New Product Delivery

Enables convergent service providers to introduce new quadruple play services faster and at lower cost, maximizing revenue

TeleManagement World Nice 2007
Booth 65

Nice, France - May 21, 2007 -- At TeleManagement World 2007, Ceon, the leading provider of product lifecycle management software; Highdeal, the world leader in pricing and rating solutions; and Visionael, the leading provider of next generation IP service automation and delivery management software and services, today announced a joint end-to-end B/OSS solution. The combined solution enables convergent service providers to seamlessly and cost-effectively launch and manage new innovative and combinational multi-play offerings on a regular basis. This enables them to maximize revenue and monetize investments for their next generation network infrastructures.

Today, carriers need to deliver new and integrated services, both quickly and cost-effectively. They face significant challenges when implementing service bundles that might include video content, mobile transactions on top of the data and voice services. These include high customer expectations for service quality, and the need to manually make wholesale changes every time a new offering is introduced.

The new solution from Ceon, Highdeal and Visionael offers service providers a one-stop B/OSS solution that launches new services faster, while simultaneously reducing costs of delivery and change management. It combines each of their core software application capabilities to deliver an end-to-end solution to support "flow through" product introduction. The solution includes components for service and resource inventory, sophisticated pricing configuration, product lifecycle/catalog management, provisioning and rating/billing.

"Introducing new products quickly and efficiently will require operators to configure, manage and process technical and commercial product data more seamlessly across all the systems that support their key business operations," said Peter Burke, CEO of Ceon. "The combined solution from Visionael, Highdeal and Ceon eliminates inconsistencies and gaps in critical resource, pricing and product information, and provides all the key components to enable operators to rapidly deploy new offerings."

The new solution relies on Visionael's Systems Orchestrator and Network Resource Manager for product fulfillment, and modeling of physical and logical resources, plus supported technical services. It uses Highdeal's Transactive for defining innovative price plans in the rating application, and rating utilized services. Ceon's Product Control Center constructs the product offering and reflects the price plan and technical service building blocks. The combined solution also includes components for service and resource inventory, sophisticated pricing configuration, product lifecycle/catalog management, provisioning and rating/billing.

"Highdeal is extremely excited to be partnering with Visionael and Ceon. Our joint best-of-breed solution provides operators with the right toolset to react rapidly and efficiently to market demands for new and innovative services, products, and packages," said Eric Pillevesse, Co-founder and CEO of Highdeal.

"Our joint solution will enable operators to launch and manage product offerings of many variations much faster, retire products quickly, and match them to specific market segment needs and consumer lifestyles," said Craig Nichols, president and CEO of Visionael. "We continue to listen to our customers and the market and are excited to bring this joint offering to market".

Ceon, Highdeal and Visionael will be hosting a cocktail reception at TeleManagement World 2007 in Nice on Wednesday, May 23 at 12:30pm. Interested parties are welcome to attend. For more information or to arrange a meeting during the event call +33 (0)1 53 05 41 52 or email michele.landel@highdeal.com.

About Ceon
Ceon is a leading provider of product lifecycle management and fulfillment software for dynamic and bundled product offerings. Ceon's breakthrough Product Control Center (PCC) solution is the communication industry's first purpose-built and standards-based system focused on enabling service providers to construct, manage, and deploy a layered product catalog that includes the full technical and commercial definition of products. PCC supports extended attributes, complex business rules, constraint processing, multi-user collaboration, entity revision management, lifecycle state management, a SID-based data model, and online order configuration and price calculation support.

About Highdeal
Highdeal is the world's leading provider of Pricing & Rating solutions. By delivering unconstrained pricing and packaging flexibility coupled with real-time transaction management, Highdeal solves the billing problem in the multiservice world. The Yankee Group has named Highdeal the fastest growing billing and rating vendor defined in terms of announced customers. With over 170 implementations in more than 50 countries, broadband, mobile and on-demand service providers around the world rely on Highdeal. For more information, visit www.highdeal.com.

About Visionael
Visionael is a software and services company that enables customers to effectively plan for and respond to the ever-changing complexity associated with large computer networks. Enterprises, government organizations, network outsourcers, and telecommunications services providers rely on Visionael solutions and insights to reduce the time and risk of deploying new network technologies and services. The company has an extensive worldwide customer base, including Alpheus Communications, Comcast, Rogers, EDS, TDC Song, Kaiser Permanente, IBM Global Services, Sprint and Vodafone. System integrators and partners include Cognizant, Dimension Data, EDS, HP, IBM Global Services, Logica and Pride. Visionael is a privately held company, headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with major development facilities in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Gothenburg, Sweden; and Bangalore, India. Sales offices are located throughout North America and Europe.

For more information, please visit www.visionael.com, or call +1 650-470-8920.

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