Swisscom chooses Celona for business-centric application data migration

Swisscom selects Celona Evolve application data migration platform for major Next Generation convergent billing programme

London, UK, 31st March, 2009: Celona Technologies, the leader in business-centric application data migration solutions, today announced that it has been chosen by Swisscom, Switzerland’s leading Telecoms provider, to provide its zero-downtime application data migration platform for a major converged billing programme. Celona will provide its solution and best in class deployment method to enable Swisscom with a low risk and cost effective migration from legacy to newly upgraded billing application infrastructure based on Oracle BRM(tm).

Charles Andrews, CEO of Celona commented: “We are delighted to have been chosen by Swisscom, who have recognised the importance of application data migration to ensuring the successful implementation of applications in the OSS/BSS environment. Application data migration is arguably the highest risk factor in any application deployment or Telecoms transformation programme and at Celona we are focused on purpose built solutions that provide assured application data migration across key applications areas such as Billing, CRM, Order Management, Provisioning and Network Inventory with minimal business disruption.”

Joost Eringfeld, Head of Billing domain of Swisscom commented: “Application data migration is key to the successful deployment of applications in the new convergent OSS/BSS environment. We have chosen Celona for their purpose built software and expertise in Telecoms application data migration, which provides us with a clear business driven approach to what can be a complex and disruptive process”.

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About Celona

Celona is the leading provider of Application Data Migration software specifically developed for organisations who are managing business change or who are upgrading their legacy systems and applications to optimise efficiency, customer focus and costs. Celona Evolve is the software platform of choice for organisations that require a business-centric application migration approach which delivers zero downtime and lower risk, enabling business evolution and transformation at the lowest cost and in the shortest timeframes.

Headquartered in London, and with offices in mainland Europe and Asia-Pacific, Celona was founded in 2005 and is privately held. For more information visit www.celona.com.

About Swisscom

Swisscom is Switzerland’s leading telecoms provider, with 5,4 million mobile customers and around 1.8 million broadband connections. In 2008, the company’s 19,943 employees (full time equivalents) generated revenues of CHF 12,2 billion. Almost 830 young people complete an apprenticeship at Swisscom in the fields of IT, telematics, mediamatics, retailing and commerce.

Swisscom has a presence throughout Switzerland and offers a full range of products and services for mobile, landline and IP-based voice and data communication. Massive investments in network infrastructure ensure that this will remain the case in the future. Since the launch of Bluewin TV, customers too have become increasingly aware of the trend towards multimedia. Swisscom is active in one of the most attractive broadband markets in Europe via the Italian provider Fastweb. Swisscom also offers services for IT infrastructure outsourcing as well as the management of communications infrastructures.

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