MONITORING, MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF ENTERPRISE TELECOMMUNICATION COSTS ENHANCED BY NEW VERSION OF NEC PHILIPS’ MAS 9 EXPENSE CONTROL SUITE
Enterprises Enterprises typically can save 6 to 15% on telecom expenses by just detecting billing errors
Hilversum, The Netherlands – October 11 2007 – With the introduction of an improved version of its MAS 9 Expense Control Suite for iS3000, 2000 IPS and UNIVERGE SV7000 enterprise communication platforms, NEC Philips Unified Solutions (NEC Philips) significantly enhances monitoring, management and control of enterprise telecom costs.
This new release 9.5 interacts closely with NEC Philips’ MA4000 Management and Administration solution and provides a powerful tool for effectively managing IT operations and services in terms of efficiency and cost validation.
The Expense Control Suite is a comprehensive web-based, fully scalable solution, which particularly benefits organisations that span multiple sites and have high traffic volumes. It is these organisations that are also vulnerable to abuse and fraud, and the suite is ideally suited for tracking these conditions, while at the same time assuring the privacy of all parties.
Significant cost savings
Enterprises have typically saved between 6 to 15 % of their telecommunication expenses by detecting billing errors. Besides improving efficiency, performance, and accountability of telecommunications use, the suite helps organisations to verify telecommunications invoices and match these against actual costs.
Organisations are increasingly dynamic in size and structure and as a result change their infrastructures constantly. More than ever management needs to be in a position to assess traffic loads accurately, in order to determine the appropriate and most efficient network capacity. Communications grow along with organisations, and regular traffic monitoring is required to ensure the right quality of service is maintained. The Expense Control Suite provides pro-active and policy-based solutions ranging from customer care to billing. Classic call accounting is available for all voice calls including voice over Internet (VoIP) calls. Budgets can be set up for individuals, departments as well as project teams, with automatically generated warnings when these are almost exceeded, and automatically restricted service class if a budget is exceeded.
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About NEC Philips Unified Solutions
NEC Philips Unified Solutions is a leading provider of comprehensive communications solutions to organisations of all types and sizes. NEC Philips offers advanced IP-based solutions that unify products, applications and services, enabling organisations to communicate and collaborate more effectively, efficiently and reliably. The company is a joint venture of NEC Corporation and Royal Philips Electronics and draws on more than 50 years experience in providing communication systems and services to a diverse and global base of customers. NEC Philips Unified Solutions is headquartered in Hilversum, the Netherlands, and serves its customers through a global network of sales organisations and business partners. For more information www.nec-philips.com.
About NEC Corporation
NEC Corporation (NASDAQ: NIPNY) is one of the world's leading providers of internet, broadband network and enterprise business solutions dedicated to meeting the specialized needs of its diverse and global base of customers. NEC delivers tailored solutions in the key fields of computer, networking and electron devices, by integrating its technical strengths in IT and Networks, and by providing advanced semiconductor solutions through NEC Electronics Corporation. The NEC Group employs more than 150,000 people worldwide. For additional information, please visit the NEC home page at: http://www.nec.com. Newsroom: http://www.nec.co.jp/press/en/.
About Royal Philips Electronics
Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) is a global leader in healthcare, lifestyle and technology, delivering products, services and solutions through the brand promise of “sense and simplicity”. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Philips employs approximately 125,800 employees in more than 60 countries worldwide. With sales of EUR 27 billion in 2006, the company is a market leader in medical diagnostic imaging and patient monitoring systems, energy efficient lighting solutions, personal care and home appliances, as well as consumer electronics. News from Philips is located at www.philips.com/newscenter.
For more information, please contact:
| Robert van Amerongen NEC Philips Unified Solutions Tel: +31 35 689 1521 Email: robert.van.amerongen@nec-philips.com |
Forward-looking statements
This release may contain certain forward-looking statements with respect to the financial condition, results of operations and business of NEC and Philips and certain plans and objectives of both companies with respect to these items. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future and there are many factors that could cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.
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