Santa Clara, Calif., June 2, 2009 -- OpSource™, the leader in Web operations, today announced that it has been named as a finalist in SoftwareCEO’s Software Innovation Award, with OpSource Billing CLM™ —a self-service, flexible and secure solution for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Web customer on-boarding, subscription management and payment processing—honored in the “most innovative software for the software industry” category.
New in 2008, this innovative customer life cycle and billing web service offers a secure, flexible and easy to use solution for customer on-boarding, automated billing and collections, and full self-service account management. As a web service, OpSource Billing CLM can be implemented by SaaS and Web companies in weeks rather than months, without requiring consulting help. OpSource Billing CLM is available as a stand-alone offering or as a part of the award-winning OpSource On-Demand™ Web operations solution.
“As the SaaS marketplace continues to grow rapidly, OpSource is committed to bringing our customers the solutions they need today to build the businesses of tomorrow,” said Richard Dym, CMO, OpSource. “OpSource Billing CLM was created to bring the ease, performance and flexibility of SaaS computing to companies’ mission-critical billing needs. We are pleased that both our customers and our industry have recognized the importance of this solution, and we look forward to building even more such products in the years to come.”
“The companies honored with SoftwareCEO Software Innovation Awards are at the forefront of innovation,” said Mark Fogle, publisher of SoftwareCEO. “On behalf of the worldwide membership of CompTIA and SoftwareCEO, I am pleased to recognize their achievements.”
The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), the leading trade association for the world's information technology (IT) industry, runs The SoftwareCEO Software Innovation Awards to recognize innovative software products and new business models. The 2009 winners will be announced at an online awards ceremony on June 18. For a full list of finalists, please visit http://www.softwareceo.com/leadership/2009/awards_finalists.aspx.
About OpSource On-Demand
A comprehensive, award-winning Web operations solution, OpSource On-Demand enables Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Web companies to quickly and securely deliver their applications and services over the Web to consumers and businesses alike. Going far beyond full-featured managed hosting, it includes the application management, compliance and business services that are necessary for on-demand business success.
OpSource On-Demand includes:
Technical Operations
• Best-in-class, scalable software, hardware and network infrastructure
• World-class data center facilities
• Redundant carrier class load balancing architecture
• In-depth 24x7 monitoring, security, and management procedures backed by SAS-70 Type II audits
• Built-in high availability solutions from simple clustering to wide-area disaster recovery
Application Operations
• Data management
• Performance management, including multipoint user-experience monitoring
• Application roll out and change management
• Application optimization
• Compliant infrastructure, processes and procedures including: SAS 70 Type II audited, HIPAA and PCI DSS compliance and salesforce.com and WebEx certifications
Business Operations
• OpSource Billing CLM™ - An end-to-end subscription management, metering and payment stand-alone solution, or as part of OpSource On-Demand
• OpSource Connect™ - A Web services infrastructure and integration toolset, for application integration in the "Cloud" and behind the corporate fire-wall
• OpSource End-User Support™ - 24x7 customer branded end-user support
• OpSource Analytics™ - A real-time application and customer usage information, and health of business analysis and reporting tool
About OpSource Billing CLM
OpSource Billing CLM enables sales and marketing departments of SaaS and Web companies to increase their revenues by quickly and easily changing trials, promotions and pricing, all without requiring IT help. Integrated customer analytics identify purchasing trends, enabling rapid pricing and promotion responses to changing customer behavior. And, self-service rapid response translates into increased revenues. Delivered as a Web service, OpSource Billing CLM is easy to integrate into on-demand applications, taking days rather than months. Additionally, with the integration of OpSource Billing CLM and leading SaaS applications, companies can now pass data directly and securely to third-party systems including Salesforce.com. OpSource Billing CLM is available immediately as a standalone Web service, or as part of OpSource On-Demand.
About OpSource
OpSource™ delivers Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Web applications for on-demand companies, with hundreds of applications, millions of users and billions of transactions supported daily. OpSource On-Demand™, the leading Web operations solution, is defining how Web-based software is delivered. By choosing OpSource as their Web application delivery partner, companies are freed from investing in and managing the complex and costly infrastructure and services necessary to deliver applications over the Web. They can instead focus their resources on developing, marketing and selling their applications and services. Further, by using OpSource Connect™ companies can leverage Web services such as OpSource Billing CLM™, OpSource Analytics™ and OpSource End User Support™ and integrate their applications with other SaaS applications over the Internet as well as with enterprise applications behind the corporate firewall. OpSource On-Demand is suitable for companies at any stage of growth, with any type of on-demand application.
Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., OpSource has Web application delivery centers in Virginia, London and Bangalore. For more information about OpSource, visit opsource.net.
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For additional information, please contact:
Eileen Conway
OpSource, Inc.
650-245-9015