Convergys Partners with Sigma Systems to Deliver Advanced OSS Solutions for Converged and Bundled Services
(Cincinnati; October 11, 2011) – Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG), a global leader in relationship management, announced today that it has entered a strategic, worldwide reseller agreement with Sigma Systems. Convergys will integrate Sigma Systems’ award-winning OSS software solutions into the Convergys Smart Revenue Solutions Suite. The joint solutions will provide communications and cable/broadband/satellite providers, in both residential and business markets, with advanced OSS and BSS software, for the design, delivery, and management of next generation communications and entertainment services.
With Sigma’s advanced IP service fulfillment solutions, purpose built for complex service bundling, global communications service providers can quickly, efficiently, and continually expand their portfolio of innovative and differentiated revenue-generating service offerings, delivered over any access technology and to any device.
Convergys Smart Revenue Solutions Suite paired with Sigma Systems solutions will enable marketing, customer care, and IT organizations to plan for, implement, and accelerate the speed of their transformation efforts, helping enable service providers’ evolution into next generation operators.
“This partnership brings together two global companies with proven expertise and deployments in business and service transformation,” said Morag Lucey, Convergys Senior Vice President of Marketing and Product Management. “With the advent of new video, entertainment, business, and cloud-enabled offerings, service providers have to address both business and service transformation at the same time to successfully expand their offerings and supporting operations systems. Integrated BSS/OSS solutions from Convergys and Sigma will help service providers effectively define, price, order, provision, and bill for services in a holistic manner.”
“With this joint offering, operators now have an integrated solution that will allow them to quickly bring new revenue-generating services to market, while ensuring a positive customer experience from ordering, to fulfillment, to billing,” said Preston Gilmer, vice president of marketing at Sigma Systems. “With the addition of Sigma’s offerings, including service catalog management, order management and provisioning/activation, Convergys can enable service providers to deliver complex service bundles while reducing their operational costs.”
Convergys Smart Revenue Solutions support convergent services and leverage real-time marketing innovation, helping to minimize risk, reduce operational costs, and generate revenue so our clients can focus on building valuable relationships with their customers. Convergys supports eight of FORTUNE’s top 10 communications companies.
About Sigma Systems
Sigma Systems is the proven global leader in delivering advanced IP service fulfillment solutions. Sigma Systems’ powerful solutions enable the world’s Next-Generation Operators (NGOs) to Deliver a Rich Consumer Experience through communications and entertainment services—over any access technology to any device. The company’s award-winning solutions include order management, provisioning and activation, and active mediation of residential and business VoIP, broadband, video, and triple-play and quad-play services. NGOs around the globe — including Bell Aliant, Cox, Rogers, TELUS, YouSee, NETServicos, Technology Networks, iTSCOM and ZON Multimedia — trust Sigma Systems for service transformation and innovative solutions with market-leading expertise for the delivery of today’s—and tomorrow’s—new services. For more information about Sigma Systems, visit http://www.sigma-systems.com and follow the company on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sigmasystems.
About Convergys:
Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG) is a global leader in relationship management. We provide solutions that drive more value from the relationships our clients have with their customers. Convergys turns these everyday interactions into a source of profit and strategic advantage for our clients.
For more than 30 years, our unique combination of domain expertise, operational excellence, and innovative technologies has delivered process improvement and actionable business insight to marquee clients all over the world.
Convergys has approximately 70,000 employees in 69 customer contact centers and other facilities in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, and our global headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio. For more information, visit www.convergys.com
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Jeff Hazel, Convergys Corporate Communications, +1 513 723 7153 or jeff.hazel@convergys.com
