Tribold Announces Enterprise Product Management in the Cloud with Windows Azure

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Tribold announces Enterprise Product Management in the Cloud with Windows Azure

Industry leading Enterprise Product Management solution deployed as Cloud Service on Microsoft Cloud Platform

Dublin, Ireland & London, UK - May 22, 2012: Today, at TM Forum Management World, Tribold, a leading provider of Enterprise Product Management (EPM) software specifically developed for Communication Service Providers (CSPs), announcedTribold EPM interoperability with Windows Azure as part of its overall cloud strategy to deliver on-premise, private and public cloud based Enterprise Product management.

Tribold EPM in the Cloud with Windows Azure will allow Marketing and IT users of the Tribold EPM application to engage immediately with their products reducing time to market for products and cost of delivery for new services. Cloud based EPM will also provide a wider reach into the CSP organisation supporting marketing and IT collaboration around the single point of truth for across the product lifecycle.

Simon Muderack, Tribold’s CEO, commented: “We are thrilled to announce Tribold EPM in the Cloud with Windows Azure. Speed of deployment and rollout, together with performance and scalability, are increasingly critical factors for CSP when deploying BSS solutions. Our joint solution with Microsoft delivers on these requirements and provides the added agility and flexibility traditionally associated with cloud solutions.”

Walid Abu-Hadba, corporate vice president, developer and platform evangelism at Microsoft commented: “We are delighted to see Tribold expanding their cloud offering for communication service providers, with Windows Azure at its core. Microsoft’s cloud platform delivers greater business agility to service providers, while significantly reducing capital expenditure so that they can focus on their core business. Tribold’s long term commitment to Microsoft platforms has helped them focus exclusively on delivering an agile and transformational approach to product management. Tribold’s adoption of Windows Azure highlights the scalability, reliability and performance of the Microsoft cloud platform. Together we are ready to meet the most demanding product management needs of communication service providers around the world.”

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Tribold is the world’s leading provider of Enterprise Product Management (EPM) software specifically developed for Communication Service Providers (CSPs). Tribold EPM™ is a single, integrated suite of Enterprise Product Management applications that empowers CSPs to put products at the heart of their business.

Tribold EPM™ is based on a Centralized Product & Service Catalog (CPC) and a Product & Service Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. Dramatic improvements in product management performance enable CSPs to drive increased profit by reducing time to market, decreased cost to market, increased quality of the product management process and increased ability to support product and service innovation.

Today, Tribold EPM manages over US$64b of products and services for our customers. Headquartered in London, and with offices in North America and Asia, Tribold was founded in 2003 and is privately held.

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