BillSoft® and MetraTech Partner to
Provide Integrated Taxation and Real-Time Billing
Joint Solution Provides Timely, Accurate Billing and Taxation
Compliance for Telecommunications Services Providers
MIAMI, BILLING WORLD, Booth #823, June 25, 2003: BillSoft, Inc.,
the premier telecom taxation software company, and Metratech, a leading web
services-based pricing, billing and revenue charing software provider, today
announced an alliance to provide joint customers with an integrated, real-time
billing and taxation solution that enables service providers to offer timely and
accurate billing and taxation for existing and new services.
Provisioning for and calculating telecommunications taxes is an incredibly
complex task. Depending on geography, service providers are required to bill and
remit up to 200,000 different taxes across the country. With the integrated
solution from MetraTech and BillSoft, customers can quickly alter billing rules
as taxation laws fluctuate in different markets to ensure all taxes collected
are current and accurately calculated. The joint solution combines BillSoft’s
EZTax® functionality with MetraTech's MetraNet® Web services-based billing
solution to capture, label, group and provision customer call data for billing
in real-time according to federal, state, county and local tax rules.
“Tax reconciliation and compliance is exceedingly difficult for today’s
operators to handle,” said Vicki Klein, president of BillSoft. “The powerful
combination of MetraNet and EZTax provides customers with a highly flexible and
automated processes, resulting in systems that offer improved accuracy and
proper billing and revenue collection. This also offers better control over the
systems for a quick and easy roll out of new product offerings, said
Klein.”
The fully integrated solution enables joint customers like
Who’s Calling, the worldwide industry leader in Customer Capture solutions, to
grow rapidly while ensuring their billing and tax calculations stay accurate
(see related Who’s Calling customer-win announcement). MetraNet quickly and
easily configures tax logic for Who’s Calling and then transfers the information
to EZTax to calculate applicable taxes for accurate billing. The combined
offering provides telecommunications companies with a choice of delivery models,
making the solution one of the most flexible in the industry. Customers can
purchase the solution either as a licensed software or as a hosted offering, for
customers looking to reduce capital expenditures.
“We are extremely pleased to partner with BillSoft to provide the telecommunications industry’s
first flexible, real-time billing, tax calculation and compliance solution,”
said Scott Swartz, president and CEO, MetraTech. “By providing accurate
intelligence to call records, and having the ability to quickly integrate with
existing systems both up and down the network architecture, MetraTech and
BillSoft effectively remove the tax burden from operators so that they can
provide the very best services possible, while realizing a fast ROI on their
billing investments.”
About BillSoft, Inc.
BillSoft specializes in
enhancing billing systems and service bureau products by providing taxation,
address scrubbing, and jurisdiction assignment solutions. BillSoft’s Total Tax
Solution consists of EZTax, EZDataTM,
EZFileTM, BillSoft Online, EZGeoTM, EZTax Viewer, tax compliance filing, and tax consulting
services. BillSoft’s flagship product, EZTax, is the most comprehensive
telecommunications tax package available. Taxing in excess of 1.8 billion
transactions per hour, EZTax is by far the highest performance system on the
market. With the availability of taxation for products and services in 76
countries, EZTax provides the most comprehensive telecom tax system and the best
overall value. EZTax is supported on a wide array of platforms including the IBM
S/390, IBM AS/400, Hewlett Packard’s HPUX (32 and 62 bit), Data General’s DGUX,
Intel Linux, Sun Solaris (32 and 64 bit), IBM RS/6000 AIX, Bull Escala AIX and
Windows NT/2000/2003 environments. In addition, BillSoft is partnered with
billing and OSS providers, providing communications companies with a one-stop
approach and seamless billing/taxation system.
About MetraTech
MetraTech Corp. is a leading provider
of Web services-based pricing, billing, and revenue sharing software for
established and emerging communications service providers. The
MetraNet® XML-based billing platform easily
integrates with existing infrastructure and third-party applications and enables
customers to Turbocharge their IT assets to extend their capabilities and
achieve a competitive advantage. With MetraNet, companies can dynamically offer
new services as well as package their existing services in new ways through
licensing or a fully outsourced solution. Only MetraTech provides pricing,
revenue sharing and billing capabilities using XML and plug-and-play Web
services. MetraTech is based in Waltham, Mass., with offices in Oxford, England.
For more information, please visit www.metratech.com or call 781-839-8300.
MetraTech and MetraNet are registered trademarks, and the MetraTech logo is a
trademark of MetraTech Corp. All rights reserved.
BillSoft® and EZTax®
are registered trademarks of BillSoft, Incorporated. All other
trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
Copyright © 2004 BillSoft, Inc., 8220 Marshall Drive,
Lenexa, KS 66214. All Rights Reserved.
For more information, please contact:
Heidi Winters, BillSoft, 800-525-8175, sales@billsoft.com
Karen Nichols, MetraTech Corp., 781-839-8303, karen.nichols@metratech.com
Joel Richman, PAN Communications, 978-474-1900, metratech@pancomm.com
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