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Eftia OSS Solutions Inc. and CSC BRASIL Announce Reseller Agreement
Alliance delivers complete service management solution to Brazilian market
(August 12, 2002 Ottawa, Canada) Eftia, a leading provider of
operational support system (OSS) solutions for wireless and wireline
service providers, and CSC BRASIL, a leading software distributor in
Brazil, announced today a strategic reseller agreement to jointly
serve the Brazilian communications market. Together, the companies
will offer a fully integrated end-to-end OSS solution that improves
service providers' efficiency while increasing revenues.
CSC BRASIL has agreed to market and support the Eftia Master.Scribe
Suite of OSS products to telecom service providers in Brazil. "This
agreement, between market leaders, will yield benefits to both
companies, " said Stephen Parker, Chief Executive Officer at Eftia.
"CSC BRASIL will help its customers introduce new services faster and
more efficiently with Eftia's out-of-the-box applications, and Eftia
will benefit from CSC BRASIL's long-standing established base in the
Brazilian market as we further extend our global reach."
"CSC BRASIL wanted to partner with an OSS company offering the best
and most functional solution which affords a proven return on
investment, and Eftia was looking for a best-of-breed software
distributor to support its telecom solutions and base technology in
the Brazilian market," said, Mario Gajanigo Filho, General Manager
Business Unit Remedy/Eftia at CSC BRASIL. "We suited one another's
requirements perfectly and we're both excited about the resulting
opportunities opening up to our companies."
Eftia has recently upgraded its market-leading Master.Scribe Suite to
include multi-language support in addition to its existing capability
to handle international telephone number formats, international
address formats, and international facility types. CSC BRASIL is the
leading provider of Enterprise Management applications in Brazil, as
well as one of the most prominent systems management software
distributors in the country. The Eftia-CSC BRASIL partnership promises
to further both companies' goal of providing superior OSS solutions to
new markets.
About CSC BRASIL
CSC BRASIL was founded in 1986. The company initially worked with
productivity, performance management and capacity planning software
for IBM mainframes. Along with the evolution of Information
Technology, CSC BRASIL expanded its solutions for the corporate
environment, providing software for distributed systems management.
Guided by its philosophy of consistent growth its pioneering spirit,
CSC BRASIL was the first company in Brazil to launch help desk and
problem management products for UNIX and Windows platforms. CSC BRASIL
has consolidated its leadership position in the Brazilian market in
the automation and enterprise management areas.
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. For more information about
Eftia and its products please visit www.eftia.com
Eftia and Master.Scribe are trademarks of Eftia OSS Solutions Inc.
For more information, please contact:
Farrah Jinha
TechKnow Communications Inc.
Phone: (604) 980-2448
Email: farrah@techknowcommunications.com
Vanessa Simmons
Eftia OSS Solutions Inc.
Manager, Marketing Programs & Communications
Phone: (613) 368-3845
Email: vsimmons@eftia.com
Silvia Einsentein
Director Marketing
CSC Brasil
Telephone: 55 21 2544-4252
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