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COMPTELPLUS | Monday, April 13, 2015 Beka Publishing, 14
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Profitec Billing Services Inc., aWallingford,
Conn.-based billing and OSS/BSS service
bureau, announces the release of ValuBill
TEM to the solution provider marketplace.
ValuBill is a powerful telecom expense manage-
ment (TEM) product many enterprise businesses use
to manage, administer and control their communi-
cations expenses.
“Profitec has been providing billing services to the
service provider marketplace for almost 30 years but
has actually been providing TEM products directly
to the enterprise market for far longer. Our billing
services product line was actually an outgrowth of our
TEM activities,” said Randy Minervino, vice president
of Profitec’s Sales and Marketing.
“My father originally started a communica-
tions consulting company and had the vision to
automate his efforts by pioneering data processing
applications which helped provide telecom expense
management services to his consulting clients,”
Minervino continued. “These programs were
focused on providing traffic engineering, cost allo-
cation and budgeting tools.
“Starting in the advertising and brokerage indus-
tries, the company gradually made inroads into the
larger enterprise space. As we worked with dozens of
Fortune 500 companies, and other large enterprise
accounts to help them manage a huge operational
expense, the industry was changing due to the avail-
ability of SDN, VNET and other large carrier dedicated
corporate offerings,” he said.
“We augmented our TEM products with tools
that could help large companies study the feasibility
of the individual carrier offerings and help guide
decision making,” Minervino explained. “As we
began working with the billing data coming from the
carriers we could see the usefulness of the billing
data was limited at that time. Therefore, we created
corporate billing tools as TEM offerings. When indi-
vidual entrepreneurs began leveraging these large
networks and started their own communications
companies, we were ready with in-place billing
options to serve their needs.”
ValuBill TEM is a powerful tool that facilitates
management of a large operational expense.
The product consolidates, analyzes and enables
payment approval of every corporate communica-
tions invoice for all locations.
Trends are analyzed and anomalies explored.
Invoices are evaluated for cost and usage increases
as well as invoice item content. Every invoice is
uploaded to a corporate database, which allows
management to get a clear look at the overall
telecom and data expense for the entire corporation,
as well as each individual location.
Management has a clear look into all services
and expenses for each location improving ease of
oversight and invoices get approved for payment
quickly, eliminating service interruptions due to
payment issues caused by accounting backlogs. All
invoice content is correlated with cost-allocation
information, which is designed to feed directly
into the corporate general ledger and associated
accounting applications.
ValuBill TEM also supports a mobility manage-
ment option that reduces business mobility device
monthly expenses.
Profitec has helped numerous enterprise clients
modify their mobile structure and policies to make
more effective use of telecom budgets. Companies
that previously allowed executive and management
mobility decisions and offered expense reimburse-
ment, have moved to corporate wide mobility deci-
sion making and purchasing using pools of shared
minutes or data allowances. These clients use the
Valubill reports and output to manage and allocate
the expense down to the using unit level reducing
monthly expenses and allowing mobility expenses
to flow naturally into the corporate database
and ValuBill system with the rest of the telecom
expense information.
“‘Profitec has long been supporting our clients
with critical OSS components and other associ-
ated product offerings that allow service providers
to better serve their end user clients,” Minervino
said. “As the service provider community has fully
embraced many different offerings to address both
telecom and IT services, it seems the time is right to
introduce ValuBill TEM to our clients as well as other
service providers seeking additional revenue opportu-
nities and desiring to improve the value proposition
they bring to their clients.
“Valubill is just one more way we endeavor to
show the telecom community we understand their
business and offer real and valuable solutions,” Miner-
vino added. ❏
For more information, visit booth 613 or go to www.
Profitec Makes ValuBill TEM Product Available
TeleSphere Software Inc., has enhanced its
Advantage Circuit Management (ACM)
platform with an email notification
feature. Leveraging the ability to identify
customers at the circuit, shelf, equipment and port
levels, this automated feature enables end users
to notify special circuit customers of an upcoming
network maintenance window and/or in the
instance of an outage.
The ACM database architecture creates and
stores relationships between circuits and customers,
including email addresses. When a maintenance
window is required, end users employ a notification
graphical user interface and an email template to
complete the notification process.
Launched during the first quarter of 2014, ACM
is an innovative OSS platform optimized for the
management of special circuits. Courtesy of a
formal workflow process, key performance indica-
tors are developed and the timing associated with
revenue realization is improved.
A variety of tools provide greater network
visibility, including inside plant equipment and the
association of special circuits, customers and service
level agreements. Unnecessary costs associated
with off-net circuits can be avoided via contract
management reports. Maintenance and outage
notifications can be completed expeditiously using
recently released email notification functionality.
TeleSphere’s Vice President of Sales Todd Twete
said, “Many LECs and middle-mile providers dedi-
cate substantial internal resources to manage main-
tenance and outage notifications. With ACM’s email
notification feature these same organizations can
gain operational efficiencies and enhance customer
satisfaction and retention.”
TeleSphere, a wholly owned subsidiary of Black-
foot Telecommunications Group, based in Missoula,
Mont., is a nationwide telecommunications soft-
ware and professional services provider offering
carrier access billing services, billing mediation,
wholesale billing and circuit management solutions
to the ILEC, CLEC tandem, and cable telephony
communities. ❏
For more information, visit booth 618 or go to
or .
TeleSphere Releases Email
Notification Enhancement