Kabira® Demonstrates Service Aware Platform, Provisioning, Charging, and Mobile Payments at GSMA’s Mobile World Congress 2008
Service Aware Capabilities Enable New, Profitable, and Personalized Telecom Services
Barcelona, Spain — February 5, 2008 - Kabira Technologies Inc., a leader in extreme transaction processing software for global enterprises, will be demonstrating its Service Aware Platform at GSMA’s Mobile World Congress (11th to 14th February 08, Fira de Barcelona, Spain). Kabira’s Service Aware Platform is telecom-proven software that accelerates the interaction between operational support systems and networks. Now new, network-based real-time services can be cost-effectively created and delivered across a provider’s entire customer base. This platform encourages service provider innovation and differentiation by enabling highly personalized services based on capabilities such as:
- Online/offline convergent charging
- Mobile payments
- Provisioning across multi-service convergent networks
- Highly reliable, real-time balance management
“With a service aware platform, we believe that providers can incorporate customer profile, location, service usage, QoS, service plan and other information to more rapidly deliver highly differentiated real-time services,” remarked Paul Sutton, president and chief executive officer for Kabira. “We are excited for this opportunity to demonstrate the competitive advantages that service awareness provides, at an event where so many leaders in telecommunications services convene.”
Products supporting the delivery of Kabira Service Aware Platform capabilities include Kabira Provisioning and Service Activation™ (KPSA), Kabira Charging™, Kabira Payments™ and Kabira Transaction Processing™ (KTP).
Live demonstrations at the Kabira Technologies Booth, (Hall 1 — 1F33) will show how Kabira’s products respond to major challenges faced by telecom service providers today.
DEMO: Mobile Payments This demonstration shows how mobile money transfers initiated from a handset can be authorized by a bank in real-time. Included is an overview of Kabira’s payment product features, including negative file look-up, velocity fraud check, stand-in processing (STIP), bank switching and routing profile management, and web-to-ISO8583 message integration.
DEMO: KPSA - Provisioning and Activation Functionality As one of the world’s most widely deployed provisioning and activation products, KPSA provides unique flexibility and ease of use. In this demonstration, advanced KPSA capabilities, including mobile activation, rules management, service order queuing and GPRS data migration are explained.
DEMO: Kabira Charging — Online Functionality This demonstration displays the power and flexibility that Kabira provides for on-line charging systems. This includes the ability to support multiple services and disparate protocols.
DEMO: Kabira Charging — Offline Functionality Kabira offline functionality greatly facilitates how charging rules are created and work-flows are assembled and modified. This demonstration also shows how failover is handled within a highly available charging environment.
DEMO: Highly Available Subscriber and Balance Management Kabira offers unique, highly available functionality that ensures transactions are completed and subscriber and balance management integrity is maintained, even in the event of system failure. This demonstration describes how account and payment balance information is protected in real-time.
For more information, visit www.kabira.com.
EMEAR Press Contact for Kabira
Véronique Marquet
Kabira Technologies
+33 6 72 81 27 15
veronique.marquet@kabira.fr
