MetraTech Corp., a provider for innovative charging, billing, settlement and customer care product, reportedly announced that its product, MetraNet, has been deployed by Microsoft as the billing and partner settlement solution for Microsoft (News - Alert) Online Services, Microsoft’s new cloud computing services.

 

Microsoft Online Services takes care of initiatives and lowers the load of managing and maintaining business systems of IT departments.

 

MetraNet is designed to model business processes and financial models following a 20-week implementation. The solution is said to improve the customer’s purchasing experience and streamlines conversion into a new model. MetraNet is seamlessly integrated with Microsoft’s commerce system and the order entry and service activation processes.

Richard Koh, director at Microsoft, said, “Microsoft Online Services are a critical component of Microsoft’s software plus services strategy. MetraTech (News - Alert) has been an extremely important contributor to the successful launch of Microsoft Online Services, keeping pace with our aggressive delivery schedule throughout.”

Norbert Scholz, Research Vice President, Gartner (News - Alert), Inc. said that online services usher in a new era for SaaS in the form of a substantial new offering for buying and consuming collaboration software.

 

“Gartner expects online services to mature rapidly with mainstream adoption in 2010 and 20 percent of enterprise e-mail seats to use SaaS (News - Alert) in general by 2012,” Scholz said.

 

Scott Swartz, founder and Chief Executive Officer, MetraTech Corp., said that the company is “extremely proud” that Microsoft has implemented MetraNet to help monetize Microsoft Online Services.

 

“As an agile global leader they provide an ideal showcase for our Dynamic Business Modeling capabilities and the aggressive, on-time implementation underlines MetraTech as the leading enabler of business model transformation in the billing and settlement market,” Swartz said.

 

MetraTech Corp.’s MetraNet, automates business processes and business models that address rapidly changing and complex business strategies for an unlimited number of services. MetraTech is headquartered in Boston and has offices in San Francisco, Frankfurt, Paris, Singapore, Rio de Janeiro and London.

 

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