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Tribold evaluated in Product and Service Catalog Management Solutions report for the Communications Industry

London, UK - October 5, 2010: Tribold, the world’s leading provider of Enterprise Product Management (EPM) software specifically developed for Communication Service Providers (CSPs), has been evaluated in the much anticipated Gartner September 2010 report: ‘Competitive Landscape: Evolution of Integrated Product Catalog and Service Catalog Management Solutions, Worldwide’ - a comprehensive analysis of leading vendors and the business drivers for carrier adoption.

The report examines seven vendors, including Tribold, offering due diligence guidance for carriers sourcing decisions. The report articulates the problems carriers face today around product and service catalog adoption and outlines the business and technical drivers and benefits of adoption for Enterprise Product & Service Management.

Three main reasons are identified for driving product catalog adoption:
- Competitive pressure for carriers to deliver new services to new markets quicker, often in partnerships or syndication schemas.
- Complex product life cycle management, especially for the mobile domain, with diverse products delivered to diverse customer segments, complex discounts schemas — that all call for centralized product life cycle management closely related to the actual network capabilities and the service configurations representing them.
- Cost Reduction and revenue enhancement - with the continuing pressure to lower operational expenditure and increase revenues CSP's must instigate the adoption of more lithe, innovative operational product and service creation tools

Catherine Michel, Tribold’s CTO, commented: "Gartner recognises the maturing nature of this segment and this report is a valuable resource for CSPs considering an investment in Product/Service Management.”  Michel continued: "It is great to see the validation of the Tribold team’s industry leading expertise and our determined focus on rapid delivery and TCO reduction.” Michel: concluded: “I’m personally very proud to see the Tribold EPM product recognized as THE best of breed vendor in the market".

The report is available at: http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?id=1439328&ref=g_fromdoc

To learn more about Tribold’s solution for Product & Service Catalog visit www.tribold.com

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About Tribold
Tribold is the world’s leading provider of Enterprise Product Management (EPM) software specifically developed for Communication Service Providers (CSPs). Tribold EPM™ is a single, integrated suite of Enterprise Product Management applications that empowers CSPs to put products at the heart of their business.  Tribold EPM™ is based on a Centralized Product & Service Catalog (CPC) and a Product & Service Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution.

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.

Today, Tribold EPM manages over US$35b of products and services for our customers.

Headquartered in London, and with offices in North America and Asia, Tribold was founded in 2003 and is privately held.  Tribold is the Microsoft Communications Sector Partner of the Year 2010. For more information visit www.tribold.com.

Press Contact: Ernest Margitta (marketing@tribold.com) +44 20 7665 4000.