Transverse Launches Industry's First Commercially Supported Open Source BSS Solution, blee(p) Enterprise Edition

Provides Carrier-grade BSS Solution at a Fraction of the Cost of Current Alternatives

Transverse’s Business Logic Execution Environment and Platform, or blee(p) takes advantage of technology innovations and the most advanced open source projects to deliver a comprehensive telecom back office solution that is flexible and adaptable to the rapidly changing needs of service providers. It is designed as a fully integrated set of business management services for back office systems.

blee(p) Enterprise Edition is a production ready distribution of blee(p) which provides several advantages to telecom service providers above and beyond the inherent benefits of the open source-based platform. These benefits include:

• Service-level agreements
• On-site or virtual training and continuing education services on blee(p)
• Production and developer support staffed by experts 24x7
• Integrated third-party software
• Indemnification on existing blee(p) code
• GPL exclusions for integrated applications

“With this announcement, Transverse has paved the way for service providers to enjoy the benefits of an open source-based BSS solution together with the critical support provided by a commercially backed solution,” said Chris Couch, chief operations officer at Transverse. “The result is a high quality, fully supported, carrier-grade BSS solution at a fraction of the price of competitive offerings.”

In addition to being open source, blee(p) is a web-based, real-time, telecom back office support system. blee(p) is constructed as a service-oriented architecture (SOA) based product and provides over 2100 individual telecom related business management services. Utilizing SOA, and the blee(p) configuration framework, end-to-end telecom business solutions can be assembled in days, instead of weeks or months.

Capabilities of blee(p) include:

• Multi-service billing and customer care
• Order and service management
• Real-time billing
• Service delivery
• On-device portal
• Point of sale
• Inventory management

“Until now, service providers have had to face significant CAPEX and OPEX costs in order to radically change and upgrade their back office architecture to support new business models,” said Jim Messer, chief executive officer of Transverse. “By leveraging open source and technologies that help end vendor lock-in and drastically reduce the total cost of ownership of back-office systems, service providers can proactively move toward new service offerings. These new service offerings, together with the adoption of new business models, give them the competitive edge they need to succeed with significantly reduced financial risk.”

blee(p) Enterprise Edition is accessed by obtaining an Enterprise Edition subscription from Transverse. Pricing is based on the number of subscriber lines per number of installed systems it is used to manage. .

About  Transverse
Based in Austin, TX, Transverse is a leader in providing high-quality, low-cost, carrier-grade business support solutions. Unlike traditional solutions providers, Transverse’s flexible and adaptable end-to-end BSS solution leverages cutting-edge technologies and the most advanced open source software enabling service providers to efficiently deploy and support new revenue streams or business models.

Founded in 2007 and privately funded, Transverse’s solution fundamentally reduces the high CAPEX and OPEX risks that are associated with making changes to the telecom back office, ends vendor lock-in and drastically reduces TCO by delivering a high-quality BSS solution at a fraction of the price of competitive offerings. For more information visit, www.gotransverse.com.