Unitel Angola selects Tribold EPM for IT Transformation Program
London, UK: December 7, 2011 – Unitel S.A., the largest mobile operator in Angola, has selected Tribold, the world’s leading provider of Enterprise Product Management (EPM) software, for its IT Transformation program. Unitel intends to strengthen its position in the Angolan market through a qualitative leap in terms of improved customer service, increased operational efficiency and process, and strengthening the capacity and time to market for launch of innovative services.
“The rapid expansion of our customer base requires new capabilities and services,” said João Pedro Silva, CIO of Unitel SA, which has more than 7 million mobile subscribers. “Partnering with the market leader Tribold enables us to offer our users the best and most advanced services at the lowest unit cost and in the shortest possible time. We selected Tribold EPM for our program due to the product’s maturity and usability and the added benefit of the deep domain experience delivered by the Tribold team in rolling out Product Management solutions to the mobile sector”.
Simon Muderack, Tribold CEO added: “Working with Unitel Angola we see a drive from their IT leadership on cycle time reduction, costs of operations, and bringing innovative fast track products into the market. These goals are directly aligned with where Tribold EPM can bring real value to our customers. We look forward to working together with the Unitel Angola team delivering these tangible improvements to their entire product range”.
About Unitel, S.A.
Unitel is the largest telecommunications company and the leading mobile operator in Angola. With more than 7 million customers and coverage in all provinces in the country since 2002, Unitel, revolutionized the telecommunications market through quality and innovation of services which introduced, roaming and access to data on broadband (HSPA+).
About Tribold
Tribold is the world’s leading provider of Enterprise Product Management (EPM) software specifically developed for Communication Service Providers (CSPs). Tribold EPM™ is a single, integrated suite of Enterprise Product Management applications that empowers CSPs to put products at the heart of their business.
Tribold EPM™ is based on a Centralized Product & Service Catalog (CPC) and a Product & Service Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. Dramatic improvements in product management performance enable CSPs to drive increased profit by reducing time to market, decreased cost to market, increased quality of the product management process and increased ability to support product and service innovation.
Today, Tribold EPM manages over US$64b of products and services for our customers. Headquartered in London, and with offices in North America and Asia, Tribold was founded in 2003 and is privately held.
For more information visit www.tribold.com.
Press Contact: Ernest Margitta (marketing@tribold.com) +44 20 7665 4000.
