Redknee , a provider of business-critical billing and charging software and solutions for communications service providers, has entered into a global partnership with Tech Mahindra, a global systems integrator and business transformation consulting organisation focused on the communications industry, to jointly deliver software and services to the communications service providers market.
This partnership brings to the market a combination of Microsoft expertise to communication service providers pairing Redknee, the solutions provider to successfully integrate its real-time billing capabilities with Microsoft Dynamics CRM, and Tech Mahindra.
“We are excited by this announcement by Redknee and Tech Mahindra. As a matter of practice, we actively encourage Microsoft partners to collaborate to ensure the strongest depth of expertise and breadth of solutions are delivered to our customers. The reputation and capabilities of Redknee and Tech Mahindra in the Telecommunications industry make this agreement a shining example of how our partner ecosystem enables synergies and creates mutual value for our partners and our customers,” said Jim Dietrich, Managing Director, Worldwide Telecommunications at Microsoft.
Tech Mahindra will integrate Redknee’s Turnkey Converged Billing and Customer Care solution, which is based on Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, into its existing portfolio of OSS/BSS solutions. By pre-integrating Redknee’s solutions into its offering, Tech Mahindra can deliver extended BSS capabilities with a faster deployment speed for service providers. The partnership will also immediately widen the scope of business opportunities that Redknee can address among service providers, through the additional range of services delivered through Tech Mahindra.
“We are very excited to partner with Tech Mahindra, one of the premier global telecom system integrators, to deliver our next generation converged billing platform to more customers around the world. We see a growing opportunity to address requirements for real-time monetisation solutions for wireless, multi-service and cloud service providers across the world and we feel that our partner strategy is critical to fulfilling this opportunity,” said Lucas Skoczkowski, CEO of Redknee.
“We are delighted to be partnering with Redknee. The combination of Tech Mahindra’s niche domain expertise in the telecommunications industry and Redknee’s acclaimed reputation of superior software quality will certainly bring value to the partnership and the end customers. This partnership assures to deliver benefits for both the entities through a wider scope of business opportunities and greater depth of solutions delivered for service providers globally,” said Pritam Parvatkar, Director, Global Alliances, Tech Mahindra.