CGI-AMS LAUNCHES TAPESTRY 7.0®
Newest release provides extensive enhancements for both wholesale and retail markets and expands real-time rating functions
CGI-AMS Inc., the wholly-owned U.S. operating subsidiary of CGI Group Inc. (TSX:
GIB.SV.A; NYSE: GIB), today announced the release of Tapestry® 7.0, an upgrade
of its modular rating, billing, and order management solution. Tapestry provides
the answers to the issues facing today’s telecom service providers, whether they
be wholesale or retail, traditional providers or providers capitalizing on the
rapidly converging market of telecom and IP services. With its full suite of
convergent rating, billing, and order management solutions, CGI’s solutions help
providers fend off intense competition and eroding profit margins by providing
the agility and responsiveness necessary to be competitive with IP, content, and
value-added services.
Tapestry 7.0 builds on Tapestry’s expansive
wholesale and retail capabilities with enhancements increasing wholesale
functionality, expanding real-time rating capabilities, and further improving
usability.
The over 20 enhancements in Release 7.0 include:
•Flexible calculation capabilities – An enhanced rating mechanism for
leveraging calculations defined external to the core solution. This mechanism
enables an implementation pricing expert to combine custom calculations with
system defined calculations for ultimate rating flexibility.
•
Specialized rate maintenance web-GUI – Provides sophisticated support for the
entry of wholesale rates at the contract or authority level; the rate
maintenance web GUI allows a set of rate changes to be grouped together for
validations, approvals and auditing purposes and is specifically designed to
simplify high volume rate definition and maintenance. The keystone of this
enhancement is the rate selection table, a virtual, rules-based rating paradigm
for recurring and one-time charges. This allows the rate determinates and
results to be used for a charge to be selected and managed through the rate
maintenance web GUI, providing full user control.
• Web-based training –
Increases system usability and decreases training costs by providing
out-of-the-box, web-based training for service manager including sandbox data
and documentation.
• Simplified release upgrade – Decreases upgrade
timelines and costs by streamlining the upgrade process between Tapestry
releases, even when interim releases were not adopted.
About
Tapestry
Tapestry is a state-of-the-art rating, billing, and order
management solution suite to support convergent solutions and enterprise order
management. Installed and proven in Europe and North America, Tapestry meets the
evolving demands of a dynamic communications market. Tapestry has been IPDR
certified since 2002. Tapestry is a registered trademark and is covered by the
following U.S. patents: 6,456,986, 6,415,259, 6,240,422, 6,410,098, 6,463,439
and 6,415,298. For more information on Tapestry, please visit the
telecommunications section of www.cgi.com under “Industries”.
About
CGI-AMS
CGI-AMS Inc. is the wholly-owned U.S. operating subsidiary of CGI
Group Inc. Founded in 1976, CGI Group Inc. is one of the largest independent
information technology (IT) and business process services firms in the world.
CGI and its affiliated companies employ approximately 25,000 professionals. CGI
provides end-to-end IT and business process services to clients worldwide from
offices in Canada, the U.S., Europe and Asia Pacific as well as from centers of
excellence in Canada and the U.S., Europe and India. CGI's annualized revenue
run rate is currently $3.5 billion (US$3.1 billion) and at June 30, 2006, CGI's
order backlog was $13.3 billion (US$11.9 billion). CGI's shares are listed on
the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB) and are included in the S&P/TSX Composite
Index as well as the S&P/TSX Capped Information Technology and MidCap
Indices. Website: www.cgi.com .
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For more information:
Business
development
Keith Pigue
Executive consultant
(205)
403-8426
keith.pigue@cgi-ams.com
Media relations
Kirsten
Paragona
Director, Corporate Communications
(978)
946-3124
kirsten.paragona@cgi.com









