Communications carriers: landline and wireless alike are in a continuous struggle to retain existing customers and draw new ones that is made more urgent with the difficult economy and new and morphing competition including from cable firms and VoIP services like Skype (News - Alert). That puts pressure on them developing attractive and optimized pricing plans and cost control.

 

To create effective strategies and responses and to enable sound management requires analyzing considerable amounts of data. So it is timely that Aperio CI, which supplies telecoms data management solutions has partnered with data warehousing/enterprise analytics provider Teradata Corporation. Aperio CI will offer its Pricing Genie and Visual Bill Manager solutions on the Teradata (News - Alert) database platform. These solutions are designed to address what Aperio CI says are “the data challenges facing large telecommunications companies today while providing the scalability necessary to meet future requirements.”

 

The first in a suite of solutions from Aperio CI (News - Alert) is Pricing Genie; a "powerful" visual tool for modeling, testing and launching new plans and managing them in one central location. It equips carriers with valuable and precise information to verify the impact of internal and competitive pricing structures within the marketplace.

 

The second solution is Aperio CI’s Visual Bill Manager, a Web-based reporting solution that enables users to monitor and manage their company’s spend on services, and produce usage analysis reports from multiple platforms through one web portal. It enables the comparison of usage and costs between individual users, departments, accounts, and divisions for a specific service or set of services.

 

Aperio will be showcasing its telecommunications data management solutions at Teradata’s 2009 Partners User Group Conference and Expo this week in Washington, D.C. More information about this event can be found at http://partnersconnect.teradata.com

 

“The power of Teradata’s platform is the perfect complement to our Genie suite of Business Intelligence tools for telecommunications operators,” says Duffy Mich, chief executive officer of Aperio CI.

 

The Teradata partnership is the latest in Aperio CI’s outreach to data warehousing solutions providers. In September it announced that its software will be available, beginning with Pricing Genie, on the Netezza TwinFin data warehouse appliance. Netezza’s (News - Alert) TwinFin appliance consists of Netezza software running on a configuration of commercially available, industry standard blade servers.

 

“Aperio CI’s suite of solutions coupled with the Netezza TwinFin appliance allows telecommunication providers and operators to further reduce SLA times, increase actionable information from larger data sets and speed customer deployments and ROI,” said John Gillespie, vice president and general manager, global telecommunications at Netezza.