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ReferenceUSA Expands Database to Include Social Media Information
OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 11, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ReferenceUSA, a SaaS research service by Infogroup, announces today the expansion of its platform to include the social media information of businesses in its database.
ReferenceUSA users can now access nearly 10 million unique social accounts within its business database, including Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn. Users are able to search for companies by their individual social media accounts. The portal's database selections and real-time access to more than 24 million businesses and 262 million consumers, in addition to its regularly updated information on new businesses and homeowners in the U.S., gives users a powerful tool to find the information they're searching for.
"Social media is a critical tool in today's world for understanding consumers and businesses more closely, so we knew it was imperative to integrate it into our offerings," said Michael Iaccarino, Chairman and CEO of Infogroup. "At Infogroup, we pride ourselves on offering unique and up-to-date sets of business and residential data, and with ReferenceUSA our users have access to a leading online research and reference tool."
ReferenceUSA is a premier reference and research database for business professionals, job seekers, students, and others, that helps users create marketing plans, conduct competitive analysis, raise funds, and locate people. A recommended resource for libraries, users can use the database for market research, to locate and research companies they want to work for, as well as find schools, childcare, churches, doctors and other services. Additionally, using historical business information dating back to 2003, users can identify business trends over time and understand the current landscape of prospects and competitors.
In addition to valuable company information like company address and employee size, ReferenceUSA's database includes unique details such as geo-codes for mapping, website addresses, franchise and brand information, headline news, liens, judgments and bankruptcies, email addresses and more.
ReferenceUSA is continuing to expand the social data coverage through its compilation efforts.
"The ability for ReferenceUSA to serve communities at large with unique business insights in this way is an incredible asset to the Infogroup suite of marketing services and analytics solutions," Iaccarino furthers. "This new set of social media information will continue to improve our users' ability to use the platform effectively."
For more information about ReferenceUSA, call 800.808.1113 or visit www.referenceusa.com.
About Infogroup
Infogroup is a marketing services and analytics provider that delivers best-in-class data-driven and customer-centric technology solutions. Our data and software-as-a-service (DaaS and SaaS) offerings help clients of all sizes—from small companies to FORTUNE 100TM enterprises—increase their sales and customer loyalty. Infogroup provides both digital and traditional marketing channel expertise enhanced by access to our proprietary data on 235 million individuals and 24 million businesses, which is distributed in real-time to our clients. For more information on Infogroup's marketing and data solutions, visit www.infogroup.com.
CONTACT: Malti Shukla 402.836.5541 corporate.communications@infogroup.com
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ReferenceUSA Expands Database to Include Social Media Information
OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 11, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ReferenceUSA, a SaaS research service by Infogroup, announces today the expansion of its platform to include the social media information of businesses in its database.
ReferenceUSA users can now access nearly 10 million unique social accounts within its business database, including Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn. Users are able to search for companies by their individual social media accounts. The portal's database selections and real-time access to more than 24 million businesses and 262 million consumers, in addition to its regularly updated information on new businesses and homeowners in the U.S., gives users a powerful tool to find the information they're searching for.
"Social media is a critical tool in today's world for understanding consumers and businesses more closely, so we knew it was imperative to integrate it into our offerings," said Michael Iaccarino, Chairman and CEO of Infogroup. "At Infogroup, we pride ourselves on offering unique and up-to-date sets of business and residential data, and with ReferenceUSA our users have access to a leading online research and reference tool."
ReferenceUSA is a premier reference and research database for business professionals, job seekers, students, and others, that helps users create marketing plans, conduct competitive analysis, raise funds, and locate people. A recommended resource for libraries, users can use the database for market research, to locate and research companies they want to work for, as well as find schools, childcare, churches, doctors and other services. Additionally, using historical business information dating back to 2003, users can identify business trends over time and understand the current landscape of prospects and competitors.
In addition to valuable company information like company address and employee size, ReferenceUSA's database includes unique details such as geo-codes for mapping, website addresses, franchise and brand information, headline news, liens, judgments and bankruptcies, email addresses and more.
ReferenceUSA is continuing to expand the social data coverage through its compilation efforts.
"The ability for ReferenceUSA to serve communities at large with unique business insights in this way is an incredible asset to the Infogroup suite of marketing services and analytics solutions," Iaccarino furthers. "This new set of social media information will continue to improve our users' ability to use the platform effectively."
For more information about ReferenceUSA, call 800.808.1113 or visit www.referenceusa.com.
About Infogroup
Infogroup is a marketing services and analytics provider that delivers best-in-class data-driven and customer-centric technology solutions. Our data and software-as-a-service (DaaS and SaaS) offerings help clients of all sizes—from small companies to FORTUNE 100TM enterprises—increase their sales and customer loyalty. Infogroup provides both digital and traditional marketing channel expertise enhanced by access to our proprietary data on 235 million individuals and 24 million businesses, which is distributed in real-time to our clients. For more information on Infogroup's marketing and data solutions, visit www.infogroup.com.
CONTACT: Malti Shukla 402.836.5541 corporate.communications@infogroup.com
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Global Future City Holding Inc. Announces Strategic Partner Great Coin, Inc.'s Filing of Registration Statement for Digital Securities
IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 11, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Global Future City Holding Inc. (OTCQB:FTCY) (the "Company") confirmed today that its strategic partner, Great Coin, Inc., has filed a registration statement for the registration of "G-Coins", a digital security to be utilized by the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, GX-Life Global, Inc., in its multi-level marketing and retail business operations.
Great Coin filed a Form 1-A Registration Statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the new Regulation A of the Securities Act of 1933 known commonly as "Regulation A+" (the "Registration Statement") on November 10, 2015 for the initial registration of up to 20,000,000 G-Coins. GX-Life Global serves as a selling securityholder under the Registration Statement for the resale of 5,000,000 G-Coins it acquired from Great Coin pursuant to a private placement. The initial offering price of the G-Coins will be between a range of $0.50 and $2.50 per coin to be determined by Great Coin's Board of Directors following the effectiveness of the Registration Statement.
The G-Coin is an open source digital security that functions as a store of value and a medium of exchange. G-Coins will be created with secure, 256-bit encryption and will be freely tradable on an online trading platform. The price of a G-Coin, once on the trading platform, will be determined by market forces through trading activity. As a digital security, G-Coin will be offered as an uncertificated security, the ownership and transfer of which are recorded on an encrypted, secured distributed ledger system using technology similar to the distributed ledger technology used for trading digital currencies.
GX-Life Global intends to distribute the G-Coins it acquired to members of the GX-Life Global community as loyalty points for the members' participation in the GX-Life Global community. Members of GX-Life Global will be able to redeem their status points, reward points, and status reward points for G-Coin at 100 percent of their points' dollar value. Each member of GX-Life Global will be issued a GX-Life Global-branded debit card that holds both redeemed cash and G-Coin. Holders of G-Coin will be able to use their G-Coins to purchase products offered by GX-Life Global or sell them on the online trading platform for cash.
Ning Liu, CEO and President of the Company commented, "We feel that the integration of the G-Coin digital security into GX-Life's membership compensation plan will set us apart from other multi-level marketing businesses. The added incentive of a digital security freely-tradable on an online exchange with state of the art verification and clearance technology coupled with the quality of products sold by GX-Life Global all reaching a worldwide audience presents a compelling snapshot of our future business plans."
The Registration Statement relating to the registration of the G-Coins has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission but has not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the effectiveness of the Registration Statement. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification of these securities under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
About Great Coin, Inc.
Great Coin, Inc., a Nevada corporation, is a technology company in the process of developing "Great Coin" or "G-Coin" which is an open source digital security that functions as a store of value and a medium of exchange. G-Coins will be freely tradable on an online trading platform, and the price of a G-Coin once on the trading platform will be determined by market forces through trading activity. Great Coin plans to freely sell the G-Coins directly and via GX-Life Global pursuant to a registration statement as a "digital security." As a digital security, G-Coin will be offered as an uncertificated security, the ownership and transfer of which are recorded on an encrypted, secured distributed ledger system using technology similar to the distributed ledger technology used for trading digital currencies.
About GX-Life Global, Inc.
GX-Life Global is in the process of developing a robust, scalable platform to support multi-level marketing ("MLM") opportunities throughout the world. The state of the art platform is intended to replace the Company's previous interest in EGD. GX-Life Global plans to replace EGD with "G-Coins" which are an open source digital security that functions as a store of value and a medium of exchange. These coins are being registered by Great Coin, Inc., a Nevada corporation. GX-Life Global plans to deploy the G-Coins it acquires from Great Coin by distributing them to members of their MLM program community as loyalty points for the members' participation in the MLM program. Members of GX-Life Global will be able to redeem their status points, reward points, and status reward points for G-Coin at 100% of their points' dollar value. Each member of the MLM program will be issued a GX-Life Global-branded debit card and a separate wallet that holds G-Coins. Additionally, holders of G-Coin will be able to use their G-Coins to purchase products offered by GX-Life Global.
About Global Future City Holding Inc.
Global Future City Holding Inc. is a holding company focused on implementing an EB-5 immigrant investor program for foreign investors who are interested in acquiring lawful permanent residence in the United States, and the marketing and deployment of its MLM loyalty-based retail program. The Company plans to focus its initial efforts on acquiring qualified investment projects that are aligned with the recently acquired EB-5 Regional Center and launching the digital security-based MLM program. Additional information on the Company may be viewed at http://www.gf.city.
Information about Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains "forward-looking statements" that include information relating to future events and future financial and operating performance. The words "may," "would," "will," "expect," "estimate," "can," "believe," "potential" and similar expressions and variations thereof are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements should not be read as a guarantee of future performance or results, and will not necessarily be accurate indications of the times at, or by, which that performance or those results will be achieved. Forward-looking statements are based on information available at the time they are made and/or management's good faith belief as of that time with respect to future events, and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual performance or results to differ materially from those expressed in or suggested by the forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause these differences include, but are not limited to: the Company pursuing digital currency, which could have fluctuations in demand and pricing, the introduction and impact of new competitive products or digital currency, the Company's ability to acquire and maintain customer strategic business relationships in the MLM space, growth in targeted markets, and other information that may be detailed from time-to-time in the Company's filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. For a more detailed description of the risk factors and uncertainties affecting the Company, please refer to the Company's recent Securities and Exchange Commission filings, which are available at www.sec.gov . The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
CONTACT: Global Future City Holding, Inc. Michael R. Dunn CFO/COO Office: (949) 769-3550 Email: miked@gf.city
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SingleHop Introduces AI; New Saas Tool Provides Unprecedented Control and Management Over Hybrid Server and OS Environments including AWS and Azure
CHICAGO, Nov. 11, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SingleHop today announced AI, a first-of-its-kind, free, SaaS platform for remotely monitoring, managing, and patching servers and operating systems no matter where they are hosted - any cloud and any provider. Using advanced automation and predictive intelligence technologies, AI aggregates data from disparate server environments into one, simple-to-use, unified portal and suggests next steps, enabling IT staff to take immediate action across their entire server ecosystem. This dramatically reduces time spent on routine and repetitive tasks and speeds completion of critical actions. Account registration is now open at http://try.ai.
AI overview video: https://youtu.be/ZcWpmmj6orI
With the execution of one line of code, SingleHop makes what is often a multi-month process of specifying and deploying expensive monitoring and management systems a less than 60-second process. The free solution is managing tens of thousands of servers at initial rollout and is designed to scale exponentially.
A Radically Different Approach
Forrester Research reports that only 27% of US enterprise IT tech spending in 2015 will go to new projects, while almost twice that (48%) will go to ongoing operations and maintenance (1). AI addresses this imbalance at both SMB and enterprise levels, allowing IT staff to increase efficiency without headcount and empowering them to move beyond operations to innovation.
"SingleHop's AI is a great equalizer for organizations that don't have the resources to conduct day-to-day operations and to innovate simultaneously," said Phil Shih, managing director, Structure Research. "Its ability to securely manage services unilaterally across server and cloud environments adds real business value, taking into account the exponential growth of hybrid IT and cloud strategies while addressing an area of the market that is currently underserved."
With AI, IT staff have a simple, secure, streamlined way to monitor, manage, respond, schedule, delegate, or take immediate action on alerts, triggers or routine maintenance across all their servers with less effort and before issues escalate.
The task of patching 100 servers by hand, for example, is automated and replaced by a few clicks of a mouse. The comprehensive system view provided through AI's unified portal and its path to immediate action improve systems operations and decrease time drain for IT staff.
Automation that Delivers Actionable Intelligence
AI constantly monitors and assesses the health of the servers and their applications. It uses a predictive intelligence engine to evaluate and recommend actions and next steps through an "Action Items" tab that incorporates data from across the entire server ecosystem, in contrast to monitoring systems that provide alerts but no recommended fix or ability to address an issue.
Real-time, business intelligence consolidated in a single dashboard gives IT administrators comprehensive oversight of their servers at all times. Historical performance metrics at OS and application levels allow users to both fine tune their environments by creating threshold triggers on specific metrics and to identify where configuration optimizations are necessary.
"AI is game changing," said Jordan Jacobs, VP of products SingleHop. "All of the research we've seen supports that the vast majority of IT time and budget is allocated to keeping the lights on. With one tool, we can break that cycle. Imagine the productivity gains and reduced downtime achieved by IT professionals who have actionable intelligence at their fingertips across their entire server ecosystem through a single portal. It's an incredible leap forward in efficiency and economics."
Beginning today IT professionals who register at http://try.ai will have early access to the AI beta. The beta will help SingleHop rapidly collect feedback, make fixes, extend features and improve the user experience for the powerful tool.
Any Cloud. Any Provider.
Through SingleHop's patent-pending technologies, AI works securely on any server running Windows or Linux (CentOS/Red Hat) including:
- servers within AWS, Azure, and other public clouds
- bare metal servers hosted at third-party providers in addition to SingleHop
- virtual machines inside of on-premise deployments running OpenStack, Hyper-V or VMware
- colocated servers in any facility worldwide
Sample Use Case
An IT admin is responsible for managing 90 VMs spread across two public cloud providers. He also has a number of on-premise, physical servers, as well as a private cloud hosted in a colocation facility. He learns that a new zero-day exploit threatens an application running in several of his servers at multiple locations.
Before AI, in order to determine if servers were affected, the admin would have faced the labor-intensive task of individually logging into every server and assessing its vulnerability. Once the affected servers were identified, he would then need to manually install the requisite security patch one-by-one.
With AI's automation engine, however, the tedium and repetition is eliminated. The admin instantly sees a patch notification in his Action Item list that identifies the affected servers. With one click, he can simultaneously apply the patch system-wide, schedule it for later, assign the task to a team member or to one of SingleHop's certified engineers.
About SingleHop
SingleHop, a leading global provider of hosted IT infrastructure and cloud computing, brings together a unique combination of enterprise-class technologies from industry-leading vendors, and a proprietary automation engine, to deliver a customized cloud infrastructure experience for enterprises of all sizes. The company's powerful portal and award-winning automation platform make it simple to design and support the optimal cloud environment. Their service includes full life-cycle, white-glove support, instantly-scalable solutions, and comprehensive integrated security. SingleHop serves more than 5,500 customers in more than 124 countries with data centers across the United States and Europe.
(1) Forrester Research, "Forrester's Data Can Help CIOs Defend And Improve Tech Budgets," by Andrew Bartels with Peter Burris, Amanda LeClair, January 23, 2015, Updated February 10, 2015
A photo accompanying this release is available at: http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=37519
CONTACT: Anastasia Bullinger Director of Communications, SingleHop +1 312-386-6224 (office) +1 312-780-9051 (mobile)
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SingleHop Introduces AI; New Saas Tool Provides Unprecedented Control and Management Over Hybrid Server and OS Environments including AWS and Azure
CHICAGO, Nov. 11, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SingleHop today announced AI, a first-of-its-kind, free, SaaS platform for remotely monitoring, managing, and patching servers and operating systems no matter where they are hosted - any cloud and any provider. Using advanced automation and predictive intelligence technologies, AI aggregates data from disparate server environments into one, simple-to-use, unified portal and suggests next steps, enabling IT staff to take immediate action across their entire server ecosystem. This dramatically reduces time spent on routine and repetitive tasks and speeds completion of critical actions. Account registration is now open at http://try.ai.
AI overview video: https://youtu.be/ZcWpmmj6orI
With the execution of one line of code, SingleHop makes what is often a multi-month process of specifying and deploying expensive monitoring and management systems a less than 60-second process. The free solution is managing tens of thousands of servers at initial rollout and is designed to scale exponentially.
A Radically Different Approach
Forrester Research reports that only 27% of US enterprise IT tech spending in 2015 will go to new projects, while almost twice that (48%) will go to ongoing operations and maintenance (1). AI addresses this imbalance at both SMB and enterprise levels, allowing IT staff to increase efficiency without headcount and empowering them to move beyond operations to innovation.
"SingleHop's AI is a great equalizer for organizations that don't have the resources to conduct day-to-day operations and to innovate simultaneously," said Phil Shih, managing director, Structure Research. "Its ability to securely manage services unilaterally across server and cloud environments adds real business value, taking into account the exponential growth of hybrid IT and cloud strategies while addressing an area of the market that is currently underserved."
With AI, IT staff have a simple, secure, streamlined way to monitor, manage, respond, schedule, delegate, or take immediate action on alerts, triggers or routine maintenance across all their servers with less effort and before issues escalate.
The task of patching 100 servers by hand, for example, is automated and replaced by a few clicks of a mouse. The comprehensive system view provided through AI's unified portal and its path to immediate action improve systems operations and decrease time drain for IT staff.
Automation that Delivers Actionable Intelligence
AI constantly monitors and assesses the health of the servers and their applications. It uses a predictive intelligence engine to evaluate and recommend actions and next steps through an "Action Items" tab that incorporates data from across the entire server ecosystem, in contrast to monitoring systems that provide alerts but no recommended fix or ability to address an issue.
Real-time, business intelligence consolidated in a single dashboard gives IT administrators comprehensive oversight of their servers at all times. Historical performance metrics at OS and application levels allow users to both fine tune their environments by creating threshold triggers on specific metrics and to identify where configuration optimizations are necessary.
"AI is game changing," said Jordan Jacobs, VP of products SingleHop. "All of the research we've seen supports that the vast majority of IT time and budget is allocated to keeping the lights on. With one tool, we can break that cycle. Imagine the productivity gains and reduced downtime achieved by IT professionals who have actionable intelligence at their fingertips across their entire server ecosystem through a single portal. It's an incredible leap forward in efficiency and economics."
Beginning today IT professionals who register at http://try.ai will have early access to the AI beta. The beta will help SingleHop rapidly collect feedback, make fixes, extend features and improve the user experience for the powerful tool.
Any Cloud. Any Provider.
Through SingleHop's patent-pending technologies, AI works securely on any server running Windows or Linux (CentOS/Red Hat) including:
- servers within AWS, Azure, and other public clouds
- bare metal servers hosted at third-party providers in addition to SingleHop
- virtual machines inside of on-premise deployments running OpenStack, Hyper-V or VMware
- colocated servers in any facility worldwide
Sample Use Case
An IT admin is responsible for managing 90 VMs spread across two public cloud providers. He also has a number of on-premise, physical servers, as well as a private cloud hosted in a colocation facility. He learns that a new zero-day exploit threatens an application running in several of his servers at multiple locations.
Before AI, in order to determine if servers were affected, the admin would have faced the labor-intensive task of individually logging into every server and assessing its vulnerability. Once the affected servers were identified, he would then need to manually install the requisite security patch one-by-one.
With AI's automation engine, however, the tedium and repetition is eliminated. The admin instantly sees a patch notification in his Action Item list that identifies the affected servers. With one click, he can simultaneously apply the patch system-wide, schedule it for later, assign the task to a team member or to one of SingleHop's certified engineers.
About SingleHop
SingleHop, a leading global provider of hosted IT infrastructure and cloud computing, brings together a unique combination of enterprise-class technologies from industry-leading vendors, and a proprietary automation engine, to deliver a customized cloud infrastructure experience for enterprises of all sizes. The company's powerful portal and award-winning automation platform make it simple to design and support the optimal cloud environment. Their service includes full life-cycle, white-glove support, instantly-scalable solutions, and comprehensive integrated security. SingleHop serves more than 5,500 customers in more than 124 countries with data centers across the United States and Europe.
(1) Forrester Research, "Forrester's Data Can Help CIOs Defend And Improve Tech Budgets," by Andrew Bartels with Peter Burris, Amanda LeClair, January 23, 2015, Updated February 10, 2015
A photo accompanying this release is available at: http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=37519
CONTACT: Anastasia Bullinger Director of Communications, SingleHop +1 312-386-6224 (office) +1 312-780-9051 (mobile)
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Telefonica Argentina Selects an Amdocs Big Data Solution to Optimize Data Management and Speed Decision-Making
Telefónica expands relationship with Amdocs in data management domain; operational data store provides actionable business insights to proactively manage and offer a better customer experience
ST. LOUIS , Nov. 10, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Amdocs (NASDAQ:DOX), the leading provider of customer experience solutions, today announced that Telefónica, one of the world's leading service providers with more than 329 million customers across Latin America and Europe, has selected the Amdocs operational data store solution for its operations in Argentina in order to collect, store and gain actionable business insights from their data assets. Today's announcement illustrates the widening cooperation between Telefónica and Amdocs in the data management domain, following the previous announcement of Telefónica's decision to deploy an Amdocs operational data store at its operations in Chile and Peru.
Amdocs will implement an operational data store for Telefónica Argentina that aggregates data from numerous multi-vendor operational sources including billing, ordering, customer management, enterprise product catalog, as well as inventory management, workforce management and network trouble ticketing. Using the communications-specific Amdocs Logical Data Model (aLDM), the data store simplifies the costly and complex task of mapping the source data in Telefónica's operational systems, to provide one holistic view of the customer across Telefónica Argentina's wireless and wireline lines of business, as well as a common data dictionary and integration with Telefónica's enterprise data warehouse through a single gateway.
The data store gives Telefónica the ability to produce on-demand a range of operational reports and dashboards, including a range of prepackaged designs for communications-specific best practice reports, to drive faster and more informed decision-making.
"By ensuring our business has access to critical reports and dashboards from day one of the new systems going live, this data initiative with Amdocs will allow us to proactively manage and offer a better customer experience," said Luciana Barrera, CIO of Telefónica Argentina. "This project supports our current transformation initiative in Argentina and is a key element to differentiate Telefónica by ensuring a consistent and personalized omni-channel and digital customer experience."
"This operational data store, pulling in data from a broad range of operational sources, will accelerate business value for Telefónica Argentina by enabling it to rapidly extract, aggregate and process data, thus gaining deep insight into its customers and their experience," said Manuel Zepeda, division president for the Caribbean and Latin America region at Amdocs. "In The New World of Customer Experience – today's era defined by rising customer expectations, rapid technology advancements and intensified competition – service providers understand that they must evolve to become even more data-driven in order to deliver a differentiating customer experience that is based on personalized and contextualized customer interactions."
Today's announcement follows the previously announced transformation to modernize Telefónica's business support systems in Argentina and enable a differentiated omni-channel and digital customer experience by allowing its wireline subscribers to move seamlessly between all customer interaction channels, whether self-service or agent assisted, via the Web, call center or at the retail store.
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About Telefónica
Telefónica is one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world in terms of market capitalization and number of customers. With its best in class mobile, fixed and broadband networks, and innovative portfolio of digital solutions, Telefónica is transforming itself into a 'Digital Telco', a company that will be even better placed to meet the needs of its customers and capture new revenue growth. More information is available at www.telefonica.com.
About Amdocs
Amdocs is the market leader in customer experience software solutions and services for the world's largest communications, entertainment and media service providers. Its portfolio powers The New World of Customer Experience™, where a wide array of innovative and personalized services are delivered seamlessly to end users, regardless of device or network. For more than 30 years, Amdocs solutions, which include BSS, OSS, network control and optimization, coupled with professional and managed services, have accelerated business value for its customers by streamlining complex operating environments, reducing costs and speeding time to market for new products and services. Amdocs and its more than 24,000 employees serve customers in over 90 countries. Listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, Amdocs had revenue of $3.6 billion in fiscal 2015.
Amdocs: Embrace Challenge, Experience Success.
For more information, visit Amdocs at www.amdocs.com.
Amdocs' Forward-Looking Statement
This press release includes information that constitutes forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about Amdocs' growth and business results in future quarters. Although we believe the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be obtained or that any deviations will not be material. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause future results to differ from those anticipated. These risks include, but are not limited to, the effects of general economic conditions, Amdocs' ability to grow in the business markets that it serves, Amdocs' ability to successfully integrate acquired businesses, adverse effects of market competition, rapid technological shifts that may render the Company's products and services obsolete, potential loss of a major customer, our ability to develop long-term relationships with our customers, and risks associated with operating businesses in the international market. Amdocs may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future; however, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These and other risks are discussed at greater length in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2014 filed on December 8, 2014 and our quarterly 6-K form furnished on February 9, May 11 and August 10, 2015.
CONTACT: Media Contact: Sara Preto Fusion PR for Amdocs Tel: +1-212-651-4214 E-Mail: sara.preto@fusionpr.com
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M1 Singapore Deploys an Amdocs Convergent Billing Solution to Provide Enhanced Customer Experience
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 10, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Amdocs (NASDAQ:DOX), the leading provider of customer experience solutions, today announced that M1 Limited has successfully deployed a convergent billing solution based on the Comverse technology acquired by Amdocs, which will now support M1 as a new Amdocs customer.
The solution, now in service, provides M1's postpaid billing with a wide range of capabilities, including improved flexibility in tariff, contract configuration and batch payment processing. At the same time, the solution has seen a twofold improvement1 in M1's rating and billing cycle time, a key metric that translates into faster, more efficient operations.
"We are seeing improved call rating and billing performance as a result of our new system, and that means increased productivity," said Alan Goh, chief information officer at M1.
"Amdocs has worked closely with M1 to roll out the solution smoothly and we welcome M1 as a new Amdocs customer, along with the opportunity to work with them to deliver exciting new services while accelerating business value," said Eric Updyke, group president of Systems Integration and Operations at Amdocs.
1Performance results provided by M1 Singapore.
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About M1
M1 is Singapore's most vibrant and dynamic communications company, providing mobile and fixed services to over 2 million customers. Since the launch of commercial services in 1997, M1 has achieved many firsts, including the first operator to offer nationwide 4G service, as well as ultra high-speed fixed broadband, fixed voice and other services on the Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network (NGNBN). With a continual focus on network quality, customer service, value and innovation, M1 links anyone and anything; anytime, anywhere. For more information, visit www.m1.com.sg.About Amdocs
Amdocs is the market leader in customer experience software solutions and services for the world's largest communications, entertainment and media service providers. Its portfolio powers The New World of Customer Experience™, where a wide array of innovative and personalized services are delivered seamlessly to end users, regardless of device or network. For more than 30 years, Amdocs solutions, which include BSS, OSS, network control and optimization, coupled with professional and managed services, have accelerated business value for its customers by streamlining complex operating environments, reducing costs and speeding time to market for new products and services. Amdocs and its more than 24,000 employees serve customers in over 90 countries. Listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, Amdocs had revenue of $3.6 billion in fiscal 2015.
Amdocs: Embrace Challenge, Experience Success.
For more information, visit Amdocs at www.amdocs.com.
Amdocs' Forward-Looking Statement
This press release includes information that constitutes forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about Amdocs' growth and business results in future quarters. Although we believe the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be obtained or that any deviations will not be material. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause future results to differ from those anticipated. These risks include, but are not limited to, the effects of general economic conditions, Amdocs' ability to grow in the business markets that it serves, Amdocs' ability to successfully integrate acquired businesses, adverse effects of market competition, rapid technological shifts that may render the Company's products and services obsolete, potential loss of a major customer, our ability to develop long-term relationships with our customers, and risks associated with operating businesses in the international market. Amdocs may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future; however, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These and other risks are discussed at greater length in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2014 filed on December 8, 2014 and our quarterly 6-K form furnished on February 9, May 11 and August 10, 2015.
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Brazil's Oi Upgrades Its Amdocs Business Support Solution, Based on Comverse, to Deliver New Services and Support Growth
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 10, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Amdocs (NASDAQ:DOX), the leading provider of customer experience solutions, today announced that Oi, a leading Brazilian service provider with 73 million customers across multiple lines of business has upgraded its Amdocs business support system (BSS), based on Comverse Kenan technology, to deliver new services, reduce costs and support its growing customer base. Amdocs recently announced the acquisition of a substantial majority of Comverse's BSS assets and with the acquisition complete, Amdocs will now assume responsibility for all aspects of Oi's BSS systems.
Oi offers landline telephony, mobile telephony, broadband Internet access, pay TV and the country's largest Wi-Fi network for its consumer and corporate customers. Oi relies on its BSS to support its growth strategies by enabling the company to offer any combination of communications services, media content, data services and new lines of business with customer care, order fulfillment and billing – delivering exciting new services in a personalized, contextualized manner, while achieving accelerated business value through optimized processes and reduced costs.
Oi benefits from a modern, future-proofed BSS environment that helps the company reduce costs, while focusing on quality improvements to support its growing business. The latest Kenan advancements are streamlined, efficient and designed specifically to deliver valuable performance increases in key areas including billing cycle, rating and more. Comverse's expert services team worked closely with Oi's teams to perform all aspects of the upgrade and drive project success ahead of schedule and committed expectations.
"As one of Brazil's leading communications service providers, Oi sought a modernized BSS solution that would support the company in the future and enable it to lead in The New World of Customer Experience – today's era defined by rising customer expectations, rapid technology advancements and intensified competition," said Manuel Zepeda, president for the Caribbean and Latin America region at Amdocs. "Building on the successful partnership between Oi and Comverse, Amdocs looks forward to strengthening and expanding our relationship with Oi to help them continue to sharpen their competitive edge by delivering an unparalleled customer experience in the Brazilian marketplace."
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About Oi
Oi, a convergent service pioneer in Brazil, offers local and long-distance landline telephony, mobile telephony, broadband internet access, pay TV and the country's largest wi-fi network. Oi has a nationwide presence and the greatest network penetration, reaching even the most remote regions of the country. In June 2015, the company had 73 million revenue generating units (RGUs), 48 million of which in the Personal Mobility segment, 17 million in the Residential segment and 7.8 million in the SME/Corporate segment. Oi was included in the Exchange's Carbon Efficient Index (ICO2) for the fifth consecutive year and has been part of the Dow Jones Sustainability Emerging Markets Index since 2013. Through its social responsibility institute Oi Futuro, Oi supports projects in the educational, sustainability, sporting and cultural areas through incentive laws, with the aim of democratizing access to knowledge in order to promote and accelerate human development. Oi is one of Brazil's leading cultural sponsors and creates opportunities for projects in all regions of the country. For further information, please go to: www.oi.com.br, www.oi.com.br/ri and www.oifuturo.org.br.
About Amdocs
Amdocs is the market leader in customer experience software solutions and services for the world's largest communications, entertainment and media service providers. Its portfolio powers The New World of Customer Experience™, where a wide array of innovative and personalized services are delivered seamlessly to end users, regardless of device or network. For more than 30 years, Amdocs solutions, which include BSS, OSS, network control and optimization, coupled with professional and managed services, have accelerated business value for its customers by streamlining complex operating environments, reducing costs and speeding time to market for new products and services. Amdocs and its more than 24,000 employees serve customers in over 90 countries. Listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, Amdocs had revenue of $3.6 billion in fiscal 2015.
Amdocs: Embrace Challenge, Experience Success.
For more information, visit Amdocs at www.amdocs.com.
Amdocs' Forward-Looking Statement
This press release includes information that constitutes forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about Amdocs' growth and business results in future quarters. Although we believe the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be obtained or that any deviations will not be material. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause future results to differ from those anticipated. These risks include, but are not limited to, the effects of general economic conditions, Amdocs' ability to grow in the business markets that it serves, Amdocs' ability to successfully integrate acquired businesses, adverse effects of market competition, rapid technological shifts that may render the Company's products and services obsolete, potential loss of a major customer, our ability to develop long-term relationships with our customers, and risks associated with operating businesses in the international market. Amdocs may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future; however, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These and other risks are discussed at greater length in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2014 filed on December 8, 2014 and our quarterly 6-K form furnished on February 9, May 11 and August 10, 2015.
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Amdocs Opens New Development and Operations Center in Guadalajara, Mexico
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 10, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Amdocs (NASDAQ:DOX), the leading provider of customer experience solutions, today announced a new development and operations center in Guadalajara, Mexico to support its growing business and customers in Mexico and across Latin and North America.
The Amdocs Guadalajara center offers a full range of services in a managed services model, including systems integration, application development, operation and maintenance, testing and training. The facility joins Amdocs' other development centers in South America, such as in Sao Carlos, Brazil, and will create new jobs in the area.
"Opening this new center underscores Amdocs' commitment to Mexico and Latin America, where we see new opportunities as service providers respond to the demand for new communications services while ensuring an optimal customer experience," said Manuel Zepeda, division president for the Caribbean and Latin America region at Amdocs. "We selected the Guadalajara location for several reasons: a high-quality educational system with a highly trained workforce, an established ecosystem of technology companies that ensures we'll have all the support and services we need, and easy travel accessibility from Latin America and the U.S."
Amdocs maintains a global network of development and operations centers, providing its service provider customers around the world with comprehensive 24x7 support all year long to ensure their more than 650 million subscribers receive the best customer experience available. Amdocs offers new employees multiple career opportunities and the opportunity to use the most advanced methodologies, as part of a global company at the forefront of industry innovation that offers the most comprehensive set of customer experience solutions in the communications space, spanning business and operational support systems and network optimization products and services.
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About Amdocs
Amdocs is the market leader in customer experience software solutions and services for the world's largest communications, entertainment and media service providers. Its portfolio powers The New World of Customer Experience™, where a wide array of innovative and personalized services are delivered seamlessly to end users, regardless of device or network. For more than 30 years, Amdocs solutions, which include BSS, OSS, network control and optimization, coupled with professional and managed services, have accelerated business value for its customers by streamlining complex operating environments, reducing costs and speeding time to market for new products and services. Amdocs and its more than 24,000 employees serve customers in over 90 countries. Listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, Amdocs had revenue of $3.6 billion in fiscal 2015.
Amdocs: Embrace Challenge, Experience Success.
For more information, visit Amdocs at www.amdocs.com.
Amdocs' Forward-Looking Statement
This press release includes information that constitutes forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about Amdocs' growth and business results in future quarters. Although we believe the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be obtained or that any deviations will not be material. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause future results to differ from those anticipated. These risks include, but are not limited to, the effects of general economic conditions, Amdocs' ability to grow in the business markets that it serves, Amdocs' ability to successfully integrate acquired businesses, adverse effects of market competition, rapid technological shifts that may render the Company's products and services obsolete, potential loss of a major customer, our ability to develop long-term relationships with our customers, and risks associated with operating businesses in the international market. Amdocs may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future; however, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These and other risks are discussed at greater length in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2014 filed on December 8, 2014 and our quarterly 6-K form furnished on February 9, May 11 and August 10, 2015.
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Amdocs Extends Relationship With Bell Canada for Additional Five Years Through 2022
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 10, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Amdocs (NASDAQ:DOX), the leading provider of customer experience solutions, today announced it will extend its managed services and related professional services relationship with Bell Canada to deliver, enhance and maintain its business support systems across the organization for an additional five years through 2022.
"Amdocs has provided high-quality billing solutions and world-class operational support to Bell over the years. We look forward to building on our longstanding relationship to further enhance Bell's efficient delivery of the best customer experience possible," said Mike Cole, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Bell Canada.
"The extension of the managed services and professional services arrangement reinforces the long-standing excellence in operations and service delivery that is the cornerstone of our relationship with Bell Canada," said Helen Wilde, president for the North American region at Amdocs. "Today's agreement further validates Amdocs' unique business model, which combines products, services and industry expertise to help our customers embrace the challenges and experience success in The New World of Customer Experience, an era defined by rising customer expectations, rapid technology advancements and intensified competition."
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About Amdocs
Amdocs is the market leader in customer experience software solutions and services for the world's largest communications, entertainment and media service providers. Its portfolio powers The New World of Customer Experience™, where a wide array of innovative and personalized services are delivered seamlessly to end users, regardless of device or network. For more than 30 years, Amdocs solutions, which include BSS, OSS, network control and optimization, coupled with professional and managed services, have accelerated business value for its customers by streamlining complex operating environments, reducing costs and speeding time to market for new products and services. Amdocs and its more than 24,000 employees serve customers in over 90 countries. Listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, Amdocs had revenue of $3.6 billion in fiscal 2015.
Amdocs: Embrace Challenge, Experience Success.
For more information, visit Amdocs at www.amdocs.com.
Amdocs' Forward-Looking Statement
This press release includes information that constitutes forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about Amdocs' growth and business results in future quarters. Although we believe the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be obtained or that any deviations will not be material. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause future results to differ from those anticipated. These risks include, but are not limited to, the effects of general economic conditions, Amdocs' ability to grow in the business markets that it serves, Amdocs' ability to successfully integrate acquired businesses, adverse effects of market competition, rapid technological shifts that may render the Company's products and services obsolete, potential loss of a major customer, our ability to develop long-term relationships with our customers, and risks associated with operating businesses in the international market. Amdocs may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future; however, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These and other risks are discussed at greater length in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2014 filed on December 8, 2014 and our quarterly 6-K form furnished on February 9, May 11 and August 10, 2015.
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