Tribold CTO leading a packed TM Forum Management World 2009

London, UK, 22nd April 2009 – In what is shaping up to be a busy few days’ for Tribold at TM Forum Management World 2009 in Nice, France, both the company’s Chief Technical Officer, Catherine Michel, and its Director of Product Marketing, Ernest Margitta, will be speaking within a number of key sessions, highlighting the benefits of Enterprise Product Management (EPM) to attendees. In addition to the speeches, Tribold will also be demonstrating the capabilities of TRIBOLD 3 on its booth, presenting as part of the TM Forum Catalyst Program showcase and participating in the Content Encounter in Forumville. TM Forum Management World 2009 takes place between the 4th and 8th May 2009.

Catherine Michel will be speaking alongside Ari Banerjee, Yankee Group vice president, on the subject of Managing the Economics of a Growing Product Portfolio in an Increasingly Competitive Market within the Charging & Revenue Management Summit, in addition to chairing a Revenue Value Chain session. Ernest Margitta will share the stage with Mikael Åhman, Director at TeliaSonera to present: Optimizing the Move to Next Gen (OMnG) within the Business Transformation Summit.

Catherine Michel will also be participating in a roundtable debating why EPM is at the top of the priority list for BSS/OSS executives and which will be chaired by Keith Willetts, chairman of the TM Forum, and involve other senior executives in the industry. Finally, as part of Tribold’s involvement in the TM Forum’s Catalyst Program and Content Encounter, the company will participate in demonstrations alongside Microsoft, TeliaSonera, Comptel, Vitria, Subex & Telcordia at Forumville.

Catherine Michel, Tribold’s CTO, commented: “For sure we have a packed agenda at TM Forum Management World 2009 but it’s a great opportunity for us to meet and talk to many people from the industry. We’ll be doing a lot of speaking about the value that EPM can deliver, but we’ll also be listening intently to what executives in the BSS/OSS industry want and need in order to best shape our solutions in the future.”

About Tribold
Tribold is the world’s leading provider of Product Management enterprise software specifically developed for Communication Service Providers (CSPs). The Tribold Product Portfolio Manager™ (Tribold PPM) is a single, integrated suite of enterprise product management applications that empower CSPs to put products at the heart of their business. Tribold PPM is based on a Centralized Product Catalog (CPC) and includes Product Data Management (PDM), Product Data Integration (PDI), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Product Business Intelligence (PBI), and Product Channel Management (PCM) applications.

Dramatic improvements in product management performance enable CSPs to drive increased profit by reducing time to market, decreased cost to market, increased quality of the product management process and increased ability to support product and service innovation.

Headquartered in London, and with offices in North America and Asia, Tribold was founded in 2003 and is privately held. For more information visit www.tribold.com

Contact: Nick Gregory (nick.gregory {at} tribold(.)com) +44 7966 841688