Inc. All rights reserved. Under the agreement, both Andersen Consulting and Portal Software will dedicate staff for technical and sales training to ensure rapid deployment and capability by both organizations.
Internet providers are under intense pressure to deploy new services at an aggressive pace.
If ISPs focus strictly on transmission, it will be difficult to survive. A real need exists to have in place a strong IP architecture to yield expanding value-added services an aggressive ISP should be delivering. The alliance combines Andersen Consulting's business integration capabilities and Portal's Infranet , a UNIX and NT-based customer management and billing software solution that unifies the management of core business operations of any Internet service business. Infranet is designed to let Internet service businesses integrate value-added services that can be centrally managed by the product's core customer management and billing capabilities, thus allowing providers of Internet services to differentiate their Internet offerings. Andersen Consulting's strong global presence and sizable team of staff who have already built expertise on Portal's Infranet solution will enable us to more rapidly penetrate the fast-growing market of Internet customer management and billing solutions.