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Ottawa, Canada-March 13, 2003 - Eftia™, a leading provider of operational support systems (OSS) for wireless and wireline service providers, and Fulcrum TechnologiesTM, Inc. (Fulcrum), a telecommunications industry leader in network asset tracking solutions, today announced the initial release of the CATSTM Connector for Master.ScribeTM , the latest addition to the CATS Connector family. This release of the Connector, which integrates several key workflow processes, completes phase one of the integration between the network inventory management capabilities of Eftia's Master.Scribe and Fulcrum's CATS, a mobile computing-based asset tracking and network lifecycle management solution. Subsequent releases will focus on integrating additional workflow management processes.
"Integration with other leading products enables us to provide our clients with superior solutions, so we are pleased to be collaborating with Fulcrum in this way," says Eftia CEO and Chairman, Stephen T. Parker. "The unique solution that Master.Scribe and CATS provide will give our clients paperless inventory control and crucial workflow management automation, allowing them to substantially reduce their OSS cost structure while enabling the industry's leading ROI."
The Fulcrum/Eftia solution is ideal for carriers who want to increase the accuracy of their OSS network inventory data by enabling field users to remotely input updates using mobile computers and bar code technology. Fulcrum provides a mobile computing-based asset tracking and network lifecycle management solution, which provides carriers a single asset data repository containing consistent accurate network inventory data sharable across the enterprise including OSS and Finance. Users of Eftia's popular integrated suite of OSS solutions, Master.Scribe, will benefit from the tight OSS integration offered by Fulcrum.
"Our customers get incredible benefit from the accurate network inventory data they can maintain with our mobile computing solution," said Fulcrum CEO, Brent Bauer, "and we are always looking for ways to make the data in CATS even more valuable. Working with Eftia gives us the opportunity to focus the solution for the benefit of our shared customers." Fulcrum's specific focus on the telecommunications industry, and its experience working with dozens of telecom providers, has given them unique insight into the asset tracking and network lifecycle management requirements of the industry.
The Eftia/Fulcrum solution and CATS Connector for Master.Scribe were successfully demonstrated at Telestrategies OSS World 2003. Visit Fulcrum at CTIA Wireless 2003 in Booth 5932 for more information on their solutions for wireless and wireline service providers.
About Fulcrum Technologies, Inc.
Fulcrum is a Seattle-based company that provides asset
infrastructure solutions to the telecommunications industry. Founded in 1998,
the company provides the software, mobile computing hardware, and professional
services necessary to help telecommunications providers manage their network
assets. Fulcrum has installed its software for over thirty (30) wireless and
landline companies throughout the U.S. Visit Fulcrum Technologies on the web
at www.fulcrum.net.
Fulcrum and CATS are trademarks of Fulcrum Technologies, Inc.
About Eftia
Eftia is a leader in developing, deploying and managing OSS solutions designed to meet the service management and delivery needs of tier one, wireless and next-generation service providers.
Master.Scribe is an integrated suite of OSS solutions that enables Eftia customers to master their mission-critical business and operations processes, reduce the time to market of services, and lower overall operational costs. The suite provides comprehensive order provisioning and fulfillment; problem management; telecom circuit and asset inventory management; and Internet protocol (IP) address and telephone number management. Eftia also offers a configurable OSS interconnection gateway.
Eftia is a significant contributor to the New Generation Operations Systems and Software (NGOSS) led by the TeleManagement Forum, and is a focus member of the OSS through Java™ Initiative. Eftia is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Please visit www.eftia.com for more information.
Eftia and Master.Scribe are trademarks of Eftia OSS Solutions Inc.
For further information, please contact:
Tejpal Singh Kang
Eftia OSS Solutions Inc.
Marketing Communications
Phone: +91 22 25704504
Email: Tejpal Singh Kang