Telstra has awarded this multi-year, multi-million dollar contract to Amdocs and Cramer (Cramer is now a part of Amdocs). Amdocs’ software solutions, including the new and unique Amdocs Service Management Suite and Cramer6 OSS Suite, were chosen by Telstra to reduce complexity and costs associated with bringing new Internet Protocol (IP)-based services to its wireline, wireless and broadband customers.

“Telstra is transforming its business to deliver a “1-click, 1-touch, 1-button, 1-screen, 1-step solutions” environment for customers and employees. Amdoc’s vision is a simpler IT environment that involves partnering with world-class suppliers using proven off-the-shelf solutions. We are pleased to welcome Amdocs as one of our partners in the Operations Support Systems (OSS) transformation space,” Mr. John McInerney, Director, IT Transformation, Telstra Corporation said.

The Amdocs OSS Service Management Suite will be used to help Telstra improve the management and fulfillment of services to its customers through the integration of its operational and business support systems (BSS). At the heart of the Amdocs OSS Service Management Suite is the innovative Business and Operational Support System Manager product or B/OSS Manager — the only offering on the telecom OSS market that spans both BSS and OSS.

The Amdocs OSS Service Management Suite enables a unified service view, a capability that is new to the market and which links OSS and BSS processes, helping telecom service providers like Telstra have a complete view of the customer, the network, and the service. The Amdocs OSS Service Management Suite also incorporates the Order to Activation solution and the company’s Customer Centric Service Assurance solution.

“Competition and convergence continue to reshape customer demand, and Telstra is transforming itself to deliver a superior experience to its customers,” said Michael Matthews, chief marketing officer of Amdocs. “To do that successfully requires that networks and infrastructure are ready and able to cope with the growing call for next-generation services. It also requires integrating customer-facing and network-facing systems in order to deliver and manage next-generation IP services. Telstra recognizes this, and we are proud to be a strategic partner in this transformation.”

About Amdocs
Amdocs combines innovative software and services with deep business knowledge to accelerate implementation of integrated customer management by the world’s leading service providers. By delivering a comprehensive portfolio of software and services that spans the customer lifecycle, Amdocs enables service companies to deliver an intentional customer experience(TM), which results in stronger, more profitable customer relationships. Service providers also benefit from a rapid return on investment, lower total cost of ownership and improved operational efficiencies. A global company with revenue of $2.48 billion in fiscal 2006, Amdocs has over 16,000 employees and serves customers in more than 50 countries around the world. For more information, visit Amdocs at http://www.amdocs.com.

Cramer, Amdocs OSS Division, enables service providers to manage the transformation of their OSS and profit from the convergence of business support systems (BSS) and OSS systems. Service providers benefit from the automation of critical customer-centric processes — such as fulfillment and assurance — from the customer to the network, which allows them to accelerate revenues from new service offerings.

About Telstra
Telstra is Australia’s leading telecommunications and information services company, with one of the best known brands in the country. It offers a full range of services and competes in all telecommunications markets throughout Australia and certain overseas countries.

Telstra’s international business includes Hong Kong CSL Limited (CSL), one of Hong Kong’s leading mobile operators, TelstraClear Limited (TelstraClear), the second largest full service carrier in New Zealand and Reach Ltd (REACH), a provider of international voice and satellite services in Asia.

One of Telstra’s major strengths is its extensive geographical coverage through both its fixed and mobile network infrastructure. This network and systems infrastructure underpins the carriage and termination of the majority of Australia’s domestic and international voice and data telephony traffic.

The joint fulfillment solution will leverage the Cramer OSS Suite and Alcatel’s industry-leading equipment and integration expertise to automate the end-to-end fulfillment of services for Telekom Austria, including “triple play” bundles of voice, video and Internet services. Alcatel and Cramer will deliver complete process automation based on a single inventory core, which allows carriers to accelerate service introduction, to fulfill large volumes of customer orders more quickly and accurately, and to dramatically reduce the total cost of ownership for their operations support systems (OSS). Cramer6 OSS Suite is the only OSS solution able to support service provider transformation without creating further fragmentation of the OSS environment, and can manage both old and new technologies simultaneously from a single platform — from service down to physical inventory, including cable management.

Helmut Leopold, Managing Director of Product and Technology Management for Telekom Austria, said, “A key strategic goal for our wireline business is to optimize costs and investments in the area of infrastructure and technology. With the Alcatel and Amdocs Cramer joint solution, Telekom Austria will have the required OSS platform to achieve flexibility and process performance as we expand to offer next generation broadband services.”

“The acquisition by Amdocs strengthened Cramer’s solutions and made Amdocs unique in its ability to help service providers transform their OSS environments to meet demand for new services,” said Guy Dubois, president of Cramer, Amdocs OSS Division. “As providers move toward next generation networks and services, they view Amdocs as the essential, integrated platform to execute, accelerate and realize their strategies for market leadership.”

Stephane Terranova, President of Alcatel’s integration and services activities commented, “This contract is an important milestone for Alcatel. As telecom operators are looking to reinvent themselves transitioning towards value-added service providers, together with the new Amdocs we are well positioned to become their partner of choice. Amdocs and Alcatel offer integration services experience and a transformation management program.”

About Telekom Austria
With total revenues of roughly 4.4 EUR billion and approximately 15,600 employees at year-end 2005, Telekom Austria is Austria’s leading provider of telecommunications services. It was listed on the Vienna and New York stock exchanges in November 2000. The Group has two main business areas: the wireline segment encompasses fixed line telephony, data and IT, Internet, wholesale and security services as well as multimedia applications and accounts for roughly 3 million customers. The wireless segment covers mobile communications and services roughly 9 million customers. The Telekom Austria Group has international operations in the Czech Republic, Croatia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Liechtenstein. http://www.telekom.at

About Amdocs
Amdocs combines innovative software and services with deep business knowledge to accelerate implementation of integrated customer management by the world’s leading service providers. By delivering a comprehensive portfolio of software and services that spans the customer lifecycle, Amdocs enables service companies to deliver an intentional customer experience TM, which results in stronger, more profitable customer relationships. Service providers also benefit from a rapid return on investment, lower total cost of ownership and improved operational efficiencies. A global company with revenue of more than $2 billion in fiscal 2005, Amdocs has approximately 15,000 employees and serves customers in more than 50 countries around the world. For more information, visit Amdocs at www.amdocs.com.

Cramer, Amdocs OSS Division, enables service providers to manage the transformation of their OSS and profit from the convergence of business support systems (BSS) and OSS systems. Service providers benefit from the automation of critical customer-centric processes — such as fulfillment and assurance — from the customer to the network, which allows them to accelerate revenues from new service offerings.

About Alcatel
Alcatel provides communications solutions to telecommunication carriers, Internet service providers and enterprises for delivery of voice, data and video applications to their customers or employees. Alcatel brings its leading position in fixed and mobile broadband networks, applications and services, to help its partners and customers build a user-centric broadband world. With sales of EURO 13.1 billion and 58,000 employees in 2005, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. For more information, visit Alcatel on the Internet: http://www.alcatel.com

“Customer feedback to Amdocs and Cramer joining forces has been overwhelmingly positive,” said Dov Baharav, chief executive officer of Amdocs Management Limited. “Service providers recognize that the combined Amdocs- Cramer solution of modular products, tailored consulting services and industry expertise will support providers seeking to reduce time to market for new services and lower the total cost of ownership of their OSS infrastructure as they take advantage of next generation networks.”

The acquisition propels Amdocs into leadership in the growing OSS space. Amdocs is now unique in its ability to support OSS transformation, and can help lower the risks and costs associated with these large-scale projects. The combined Amdocs-Cramer solution is also unique in its combination of OSS and business support systems (BSS), delivering complete visibility of the customer, the network and the service. This will help service providers transition from legacy to next generation networks and systems, and rapidly launch new converged services that quickly turn network investment into service revenue.

Cramer will form a new division within Amdocs, which will be known as Cramer, Amdocs OSS Division. It will leverage and enhance Amdocs’ current assets in BSS and OSS and will focus on helping service providers manage the transformation of their OSS and profit from BSS/ OSS convergence.

Guy Dubois, formerly Cramer’s president and chief executive officer, will lead the new Division and has also been appointed to Amdocs management. Dubois has over 25 years of experience in helping large organizations derive value from IT. He joined Cramer in 2005 from PeopleSoft Corporation, where he was executive vice president since 2000, leading overall strategy, development and business execution for all company activities outside the U.S. and Canada. Prior to that, Dubois held senior positions with Vantive, Sybase and Digital Equipment Corporation.

“The Cramer management team and I personally are delighted to be joining Amdocs. Together, Amdocs and Cramer will be a power to be reckoned with for the competition, and a partner of choice for service providers,” said Guy Dubois, president of Cramer, Amdocs OSS Division. “The combined Amdocs-Cramer offering provides the visibility and process automation that enables service providers to deliver new services faster at a lower unit cost, whilst ensuring a superior customer experience from day one. When services expertise and deep industry knowledge are combined with these innovative software products, the result is a dramatic reduction in the cost of OSS and a major acceleration of transformation initiatives.”

Amdocs announced its agreement to acquire Cramer’s shares of capital stock on July 18, 2006. The transaction is expected to be approximately $0.04 dilutive to non-GAAP earnings per share in fiscal 2007 and then accretive thereafter. The impact on GAAP results is also expected to be dilutive, but it will not be known until after Amdocs completes the purchase price accounting for the acquisition. Amdocs may incur a one-time acquisition- related charge in this quarter to account for certain costs related to the acquisition.

About Amdocs
Amdocs combines innovative software and services with deep business knowledge to accelerate implementation of integrated customer management by the world’s leading service providers. By delivering a comprehensive portfolio of software and services that spans the customer lifecycle, Amdocs enables service companies to deliver an intentional customer experience TM, which results in stronger, more profitable customer relationships. Service providers also benefit from a rapid return on investment, lower total cost of ownership and improved operational efficiencies. A global company with revenue of more than $2 billion in fiscal 2005, Amdocs has over 14,000 employees and serves customers in more than 50 countries around the world. For more information, visit Amdocs at http://www.amdocs.com/.

“With a quality company like Cramer, Amdocs expects to be well positioned to capitalize on the growth opportunity that OSS represents,” said Dov Baharav, chief executive officer of Amdocs Management Limited. “Together, we intend to deliver a complete automated service fulfillment solution across all lines of business — for any service, on any network — linking order management at the customer layer with activation at the network layer.”

With the acquisition, Amdocs plans to expand its service management and OSS offerings and expects to become a leader in OSS, uniquely able to support large-scale OSS transformation projects. The OSS domain is typically defined as network-facing applications supporting key service fulfillment and service assurance business processes. Cramer has a proven and tested OSS product portfolio, which includes leading products in network resource management (NRM), activation and auto discovery.

As a result of the acquisition, Amdocs will be the only company to deliver an end-to-end solution spanning OSS and customer-facing business support systems (BSS), such as billing and customer relationship management (CRM). Service providers will be able to manage and optimize their entire services supply chain — from the demand side (customers) to the supply side (network), including the enabling business processes in between, such as introduction, fulfillment and assurance of services.

“It is difficult to overstate the importance of today’s announcement — put simply, we are redefining the OSS industry,” said Guy Dubois, Cramer’s president and chief executive officer. “Service providers are faced with the tripartite challenge of delivering more services at lower cost, managing network transformation and optimizing the customer experience,” Dubois continued. “Amdocs’ acquisition of Cramer creates a leading integrated BSS/OSS company, so that for the first time, service providers can get a complete view of the network, the service and the customer, all from one supplier.”

“We expect the strong synergy between Amdocs and Cramer to smooth integration so that customers can reap the benefits as quickly as possible,” added Baharav. “The cadre of Cramer professionals who are joining our ranks are undisputed experts in the OSS domain who have played a critical role in Cramer’s success over the past 10 years, consistently pioneering, challenging and innovating. Service providers will benefit from the combined industry knowledge of Amdocs and Cramer as well as an expanded product suite, combined with Amdocs’ global best practices, strong services expertise, robust solutions and impressive track record of delivery in large, complex projects.”

Cramer will form a new division in Amdocs, which will be the centerpiece of Amdocs’ OSS strategy and activities, and will leverage and enhance Amdocs’ current assets in BSS and OSS. Cramer’s current management will continue to lead the business. Under the terms of the agreement, Amdocs will acquire all of Cramer’s shares of capital stock for approximately $375 million in cash, net of cash on hand, subject to post-closing adjustments. Completion of the acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals and other closing conditions customary to such transactions and is expected to occur in the current fiscal quarter. The transaction is expected to be approximately $0.04 dilutive to non-GAAP earnings per share in fiscal 2007 and then accretive thereafter. The impact on GAAP results is also expected to be dilutive, but it will not be known until after Amdocs completes the purchase price accounting for the acquisition. Amdocs may incur a one-time acquisition-related charge in this quarter to account for certain costs related to the acquisition.

Amdocs will host a conference call on July 18, 2006 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time to discuss the Company’s acquisition of Cramer. The call will be carried live on the Internet via http://www.InvestorCalendar.com and the Amdocs website, http://www.amdocs.com.

About Amdocs
Amdocs combines innovative software and services with deep business knowledge to accelerate implementation of integrated customer management by the world’s leading service providers. By delivering a comprehensive portfolio of software and services that spans the customer lifecycle, Amdocs enables service companies to deliver an intentional customer experience(TM), which results in stronger, more profitable customer relationships. Service providers also benefit from a rapid return on investment, lower total cost of ownership and improved operational efficiencies. A global company with revenue of more than $2 billion in fiscal 2005, Amdocs has more than 14,000 employees and serves customers in more than 50 countries around the world. For more information, visit Amdocs at http://www.amdocs.com.

About Cramer
Cramer is the leading provider of operational support system (OSS) software that is changing the economics of telecom. Cramer offers the industry’s only complete, end-to-end service fulfillment solution, enabling providers to introduce and deliver new products and services quickly and cost effectively. Leading service providers continue to deploy Cramer’s solutions and include Bell Canada, KPN, TDC, Telefonica, TeliaSonera and Vodafone. Cramer has partnerships with industry leaders including Accenture, Alcatel, Amdocs, Ericsson, HP, IBM, Oracle and SAP. Customers can also take advantage of Cramer’s world class consulting, support and education capabilities delivered by Cramer Global Services.

As CMO for Cramer, Hurst will lead Cramer’s global marketing strategy and operations. He will be responsible for all aspects of marketing including corporate and product positioning, outbound customer, product and partner marketing programs, communications and branding, and field sales support. Cramer is headquartered in the United Kingdom with offices throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific.

Guy Dubois commented: “I am delighted to welcome Peter Hurst to Cramer. Peter comes to us with an outstanding track record of successfully leading the marketing efforts of global technology companies, making him the ideal choice to lead Cramer’s marketing organization. Cramer has ambitious goals for expansion and growth – Peter’s experience and expertise will be critical to our success.”

Hurst arrives at Cramer with more than twenty years of experience in global marketing at large IT organizations in the United States, Europe and the UK. He has held senior positions at Nortel, Clarify, and Amdocs.

About Cramer Systems
Cramer is the leading provider of operational support system (OSS) software that is changing the economics of telecom. Cramer offers the industry’s only complete, end-to-end service fulfillment solution, enabling providers to introduce and deliver new products and services quickly and cost effectively. Leading service providers continue to deploy Cramer’s solutions and include Bell Canada, BellSouth, KPN, TDC, Telefonica, TeliaSonera and Vodafone. Cramer has partnerships with industry leaders including Accenture, Alcatel, Amdocs, Ericsson, HP, IBM, Oracle and SAP. Customers can also take advantage of Cramer’s world class consulting, support and education capabilities delivered by Cramer Global Services. Cramer is headquartered in the United Kingdom with offices throughout Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. For more information, please go to www.cramer.com.

As part of the cooperation, the two companies plan to integrate the Cramer6 OSS Suite with the Amdocs ordering and service management solutions. The combined offering will deliver the crucial automated link between front-office customer management and back-office network and service management, unifying service ordering, provisioning, activation and assurance across all products and lines of business. By linking front- and back-office systems as well as service assurance and fulfillment processes, SPs are able to eliminate product and technology silos. The resulting single automated system fully manages the customer and product lifecycles and helps providers create a superior, intentional customer experience.

“Speed to market is essential in today’s competitive marketplace, and making the ordering and provisioning of next-generation services more automatic and standardized decreases the time to market substantially,” said Eli Gelman, executive vice president of Amdocs Management Limited. “By combining Cramer products with Amdocs’ modular, end-to-end solution, we help service providers gain the system agility and alignment required to rapidly deploy new, innovative products. The result is improved customer loyalty and greater customer spend — in short, stronger, more profitable customer relationships.”

“The success of next generation strategies depends on revenue maximisation,” said Guy Dubois, President and CEO, Cramer. “The relationship between Cramer and Amdocs creates a powerhouse in the market, as we ensure service providers implement the systems needed to maximize profitability.”

“We are on our transformation journey to stay ahead of the changing landscape of communications. With competition increasing, the converged, on-demand world requires us to change how we do business,” said Don Hallacy, BellSouth Chief Information Officer- Communications Group. “We are transitioning from our legacy systems to solutions that are flexible enough to support rapid change and reliable enough to reduce operating expenditures and revenue leakage. Cramer delivers on both counts.”

The first domain targeted for migration to Cramer is BellSouth’s IP Domain, which today provides IP-VPN and direct Internet access services to enterprise customers. Cramer will replace a series of legacy systems and databases, maximizing data accuracy between the inventory and the network. When the Cramer solution becomes operational, BellSouth will have an automated solution to order, design and assign, and fulfil a range of IP services – quickly and accurately. The first phase of deployment is on schedule for Spring 2006.

“Controlled migration to a next-generation OSS is an important first step toward next-generation network transformation,” said Guy Dubois, President and CEO, Cramer. “Cramer’s functionality, agility, and scalability will enable BellSouth to manage the complexity associated with next-generation service portfolios, while reducing the time-to-market for innovative new services.”

About BellSouth Corporation
BellSouth Corporation is a Fortune 100 communications company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. BellSouth has joint control and 40 percent ownership of Cingular Wireless, the nation’s largest wireless voice and data provider with 54.1 million customers.

Backed by award-winning customer service, BellSouth offers the most comprehensive and innovative package of voice and data services available in the market. Through BellSouth Answers(R), residential and small business customers can bundle their local and long distance service with dial-up and high-speed DSL Internet access, satellite television and Cingular(R) Wireless service. For businesses, BellSouth provides secure, reliable local and long distance voice and data networking solutions. BellSouth also offers print and online directory advertising through The Real Yellow Pages(R) and YELLOWPAGES.COM(TM) from BellSouth.

BellSouth believes that diversity and fostering an inclusive environment are critical in maintaining a competitive advantage in today’s global marketplace. More information about BellSouth can be found at http://www.bellsouth.com.

About Cramer
Cramer is the leading provider of operational support system (OSS) software that is changing the economics of telecom. Cramer offers the industry’s only complete, end-to-end service fulfillment solution, enabling providers to introduce and deliver new products and services quickly and cost effectively. Leading service providers continue to deploy Cramer’s solutions and include BellSouth, Bell Canada, KPN, TDC, Telefonica, TeliaSonera and Vodafone. Cramer has partnerships with industry leaders including Accenture, Alcatel, Ericsson, HP, IBM, Oracle and SAP. Customers can also take advantage of Cramer’s world class consulting, support and education capabilities delivered by Cramer Global Services.

Cramer is headquartered in the United Kingdom with offices throughout Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. For more information, please go to www.cramer.com.

TDC is Denmark’s incumbent telecoms operator and the second-largest provider in Switzerland, offering a range of fixed line, mobile, Internet, cable TV and wholesale services. When fully deployed, Cramer’s solutions will support more than 3,000 TDC users responsible for management of a Pan-European network.

“TDC’s goal is to lead the market in the development and delivery of exciting next generation services,” said Kim Frimer, CEO of TDC Solutions. “Cramer’s solutions help set us on a fast track to building the operations platform that serves this vision today and has the flexibility to grow with us and to enable us to adapt in line with changes in technology and market demand.”

Improved Operational Efficiency
In early 2005, TDC launched an initiative to reduce costs, targeting increased operational efficiency as a strategic objective. At the operational core, Cramer’s solution will replace TDC’s more than 20-year-old legacy OSS systems, and serve as the new centralized platform to support the core access and transmission networks. Cramer’s solution will help manage TDC’s core network for SDH, DWDH, Ethernet, physical ATM/Frame Relay, IP backbone and the copper access network from the Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) to the local exchange. As a result, TDC can improve efficiencies with automation that enables flow-through fulfillment, reducing the cost of manual re-work and errors.

Condensing the Implementation Timescale
TDC will accelerate these benefits by using Cramer Global Services, Cramer’s consulting, education and training division, to implement the solution. TDC can leverage the best practices approach that is engineered into Cramer’s product.

“Like all Tier 1 operators, TDC recognizes the strategic importance of a single integrated OSS solution that supports all networks and technologies across international boundaries,” said Guy Dubois, President and CEO, Cramer. “Cramer has met this need consistently, delivering our industry-leading solution to telcos around the world. The combined power of our solution and our experience in implementation means that operators now can benefit from the world’s leading OSS solution in record-setting timescales.”

About TDC
TDC is the leading provider of communications solutions in Denmark, the second-largest telecoms provider in the Swiss market and is represented by a significant presence in the Pan-Nordic market and in selected markets in Central Europe. By the end of 2005, the TDC Group had more than 15m customers in Europe.

About Cramer
Cramer is the leading provider of operational support system (OSS) software that is changing the economics of telecom. Cramer offers the industry’s only complete, end-to-end service fulfillment solution, enabling providers to introduce and deliver new products and services quickly and cost effectively. Leading service providers continue to deploy Cramer’s solutions and include Bell Canada, KPN, TDC, Telefonica, TeliaSonera and Vodafone. Cramer has partnerships with industry leaders including Accenture, Alcatel, Ericsson, HP, IBM, Oracle and SAP. Customers can also take advantage of Cramer’s world class consulting, support and education capabilities delivered by Cramer Global Services.

Cramer is headquartered in the United Kingdom with offices throughout Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. For more information, please go to www.cramer.com.

Cramer6 OSS Suite marks a major change in the way OSS solutions are delivered. Designed to address the requirements of carriers moving to next-generation network (NGN) and service environments, the new suite delivers complete process automation based on a single inventory core. Cramer6 OSS Suite will allow carriers to accelerate rapid service introduction, to fulfill large volumes of customer orders more quickly and accurately, and to dramatically reduce the total cost of ownership for the OSS.

“New services like triple- and quadruple-play demand a new approach to OSS,” said Frederic Rose, President of Alcatel’s integration and services activities. “Cramer’s new OSS suite tackles head-on the issue of delivering multiple, content-based services over any technology.”

Automated Fulfillment from the Order to the Network
Cramer6 OSS Suite is the first OSS solution to provide an effective two-way interface between the Business Support Systems (BSS) and the OSS. By encapsulating network complexity for presentation to the sales and marketing organization, Cramer6 OSS Suite allows product managers to accelerate the creation of new services. Further, by automating feasibility checking and technology selection, it accelerates service fulfillment.

Cramer6 OSS Suite also embodies a unique inventory-centric approach to service fulfillment and activation. Driven by the need for more sophisticated activation for NGN environments, particularly Triple Play, Cramer6 OSS Suite applies the existing rich functionality of Cramer inventory and process automation to the challenging task of high-volume, flow-through activation. Inventory-centric activation enables complex service changes without service disruption, increases fulfillment accuracy and reduces the order-to-bill cycle.

A Complete Model
Cramer6 OSS Suite is a truly multi-service OSS, which supports both legacy and next-generation services on any technology, all on a single platform. New content-based services mean more complexity, and the management and delivery of multiple media-based services poses a significant challenge to service providers. New services from video to gambling to ring tones require new IT infrastructures and the OSS must support these new components.

Cramer6 OSS Suite is intrinsically ready to support new media-based services and associated content. By providing an abstract view of services and resources at all levels, including network, IT and content components, and by providing a capacity view of these resources, Cramer6 OSS Suite enables automation of critical business processes across the converged network.

As network consumption continues to increase with the advent of new, bandwidth-hungry services like video-on-demand and IPTV, service providers face the challenge of maintaining high quality service levels while managing network capital expenditure. Cramer6 OSS Suite uniquely manages the class of service assigned to services, allowing carriers to manage the policies that control the delivery of IP-based services.

Low Cost NGN Transformation
Cramer6 OSS Suite has been designed to address the critical carrier challenge of controlled, low cost migration to NGN. Because it is a multi-service OSS, legacy and next-generation services can co-exist on the same platform. This allows carriers to converge all services to a single OSS over time while rapidly adding new services to the portfolio and maintaining accuracy across systems during migration. In addition, Cramer6 OSS Suite reduces integration costs and with its “thin activation” capability enables rapid NGN build outs with lower complexity by eliminating costly duplication of data and functionality.

“Next generation and content-based services place a fundamentally new set of requirements on OSSs,” said Dr. Lorien Pratt, Program Manager, OSS Competitive Strategies, Stratecast partners. “In response to these changes, service providers are changing their strategic plans in all OSS areas in a number of systematic ways. Cramer6 OSS Suite embodies four such patterns: agility to support rapid service fulfillment; reduction of integration costs through a larger set of pre-integrated functionality; support for maintaining data integrity; and converged OSS platforms to support convergent services and to reduce operational expenditures.”

“Cramer6 OSS Suite is a direct response to operators’ NGN OSS requirements,” said Guy Dubois, President and CEO, Cramer. “The OSS of the future must support the cornerstones of next-generation service delivery. It must support multiple content-based services, and existing and evolving technologies. It must increase process velocity and reduce operational costs. It must be accurate and reliable at all times. It must scale to meet the demands of next-generation volumes. That’s what we have delivered – today.”

About Cramer
Cramer is the leading provider of operational support system (OSS) software that is changing the economics of telecom. Cramer offers the industry’s only complete, end-to-end service fulfillment solution, enabling providers to introduce and deliver new products and services quickly and cost effectively. Leading service providers continue to deploy Cramer’s solutions and include Bell Canada, KPN, TDC, Telefonica, TeliaSonera and Vodafone. Cramer has partnerships with industry leaders including Accenture, Alcatel, Ericsson, HP, IBM, Oracle and SAP. Customers can also take advantage of Cramer’s world class consulting, support and education capabilities delivered by Cramer Global Services.

Cramer is headquartered in the United Kingdom with offices throughout Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. For more information, please go to www.cramer.com .

A Carrier-Class Joint Solution
SAP and Cramer are working together to deliver a carrier-class joint solution to enable next generation transformation. The companies have developed detailed process models and use-case definitions–from planning through network build and from service capture to fulfillment. By linking supply chain management, network planning and service fulfillment applications, operators can move towards a highly optimized value chain across their entire enterprise to greatly increase user productivity.

Planned Support for SAP NetWeaver
Cramer plans to migrate its Cramer6 OSS Suite to SAP NetWeaver. By supporting the SAP NetWeaver platform, Cramer will accelerate deployment of the joint solution, reduce integration costs and enhance process automation and efficiency.

“Cramer and SAP provide the industry’s leading solution for next-generation network lifecycle management,” said Guy Dubois, President and CEO, Cramer. “The integration of proven OSS and enterprise supply chain capabilities on the NetWeaver platform will improve agility and significantly reduce total cost of ownership.”

About Cramer
Cramer is the leading provider of operational support system (OSS) software that is changing the economics of telecom. Cramer offers the industry’s only fully automated, end-to-end service fulfillment solution, enabling providers to introduce and deliver new products and services quickly and cost effectively. Leading service providers continue to deploy Cramer’s solutions and include Bell Canada, KPN, TDC, Telefonica, TeliaSonera and Vodafone. Cramer has partnerships with industry leaders including Accenture, Alcatel, Ericsson, HP, IBM, Oracle and SAP. Customers can also take advantage of Cramer’s world class consulting, support and education capabilities delivered by Cramer Global Services.

Cramer is headquartered in the United Kingdom with offices throughout Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. For more information, please go to www.cramer.com .