Telefonica de Espana (TEF), the leading wireline operator in Spain, and Amdocs (NYSE:DOX) announced today that it had successfully completed the deployment of the Amdocs billing platform to support all of its wireline operations.
In addition to supplying the Amdocs billing software, Amdocs also provided Telefonica de Espana with system integration services to support the rollout. As a result, Telefonica de Espana is now able to rapidly introduce innovative offerings, including new broadband ADSL services, while the company's operational and maintenance costs are significantly reduced.
Savings in maintenance costs alone during 2005 are projected to reach around 60%. The Amdocs platform will also enable Telefonica de Espana to shorten the billing cycle by more than 30%.
The deployment was a successful collaboration between Amdocs and Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrallo (Telefonica's R&D unit). Several disparate legacy billing systems were consolidated, and more than 12 million residential and commercial wireline customers were migrated simultaneously onto the single, comprehensive Amdocs platform in what's known as a "flash- cut" conversion.
Telefonica de Espana chief information officer Horacio Perez Perdigo, said, "The successful, flash-cut move to the single Amdocs solution is a remarkable achievement for such a large scale, complex project, and the Amdocs selection was key to help Telefonica in this challenge and to ensure a cost-efficient, high quality delivery."
The rollout was completed in stages. With the acquisition and formatting, and error management modules previously deployed, the rollout was now completed for the rating, billing and price plans functionalities of the Amdocs billing system.
Telefonica de Espana is part of the Telefonica Group, one of the world's leading telecommunications companies.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes.co.il - on Wednesday, January 12, 2005