Cloud computing services are evolving to accommodate the growing demands from customers. Corporate customers are increasingly turning to cloud service providers that offer different services such as software-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service that allow them to source infrastructure and support for different IT applications.

 

A recent IDC (News - Alert) report titled “Worldwide Telecom Cloud Billing 2009-2013 Forecast” predicts that revenues from telecom cloud billing are expected to more than double by 2013, reaching more than $350 million.

 

Eying this opportunity lying in the cloud, Amdocs, which provides customer experience systems products and solutions, announced it is offering support for service providers that are delivering cloud-based services to their corporate and enterprise customers.

 

Amdocs’ offer for cloud-based services incorporates Amdocs CES (News - Alert) products, including billing, charging and mediation solutions. They provide both service providers and SaaS providers with the opportunity to use these solutions to offer cloud-based services for these customers.

 

These products come packaged with pre-defined business processes, and are offered out-of-the-box for a quick and easy deployment. They help service providers evolve their corporate business models to bill enterprise and corporate customers for cloud-based services.

 

The Convergent Billing solution allows service providers to offer and bill for advanced corporate services that are not delivered via a hosted business model, such as shared allowances, group-level offerings, and flexible discount mechanisms.

 

Amdocs (News - Alert) offers its “Turbo Charging” technology to service providers to offer corporate customers real-time postpaid services such as notifications and usage information about their services consumption.

 

Turbo Charging is developed for real-time, complex event processing and improved charging performance, company officials said. It helps service providers support massive subscriber growth without substantial hardware investment, leading to significantly reduced hardware costs and lower total cost of systems ownership, company officials said in a news report.

 

These solutions enable service providers to offer a complete suite of corporate services to their customers, supported by one Amdocs solution.

 

Recently at 4G World 2009, Amdocs announced a four-phase framework to help service providers successfully evolve to 4G.  Amdocs four-phase framework outlines the activities required for the rapid, efficient and profitable evolution to 4G.

 

As part of the Amdocs CES product portfolio, Amdocs offers 4G-ready products and solutions to support service providers through each of the four phases, including packaged solutions for automating network deployments, scalable real-time charging, and an applications store.

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