Swisscom selects Celona Evolve application data migration platform for major Next Generation convergent billing programme
London, UK, 31st March, 2009: Celona Technologies, the leader in business-centric application data migration solutions, today announced that it has been chosen by Swisscom, Switzerland’s leading Telecoms provider, to provide its zero-downtime application data migration platform for a major converged billing programme. Celona will provide its solution and best in class deployment method to enable Swisscom with a low risk and cost effective migration from legacy to newly upgraded billing application infrastructure based on Oracle BRM(tm).
Charles Andrews, CEO of Celona commented: “We are delighted to have been chosen by Swisscom, who have recognised the importance of application data migration to ensuring the successful implementation of applications in the OSS/BSS environment. Application data migration is arguably the highest risk factor in any application deployment or Telecoms transformation programme and at Celona we are focused on purpose built solutions that provide assured application data migration across key applications areas such as Billing, CRM, Order Management, Provisioning and Network Inventory with minimal business disruption.”
Joost Eringfeld, Head of Billing domain of Swisscom commented: “Application data migration is key to the successful deployment of applications in the new convergent OSS/BSS environment. We have chosen Celona for their purpose built software and expertise in Telecoms application data migration, which provides us with a clear business driven approach to what can be a complex and disruptive process”.