Leading Industry Analyst Firm names Cycle30 to 2011 Cool Vendors List

Hosted billing newcomer earns honors based on evaluation of order-to-cash service model

Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) June 16, 2011 – Cycle30, provider of hosted order-to-cash billing services, today announced it has been named to the Gartner, Inc. 2011 Cool Vendors list. Cycle30 appears in the category of "Cool Vendors in Communication Service Provider Operational and Business Delivery."

The report focuses on vendors that offer new delivery models and help communication service providers (CSPs) improve customer interactions. It was written by Norbert Scholz, Kamlesh Bhatia, and Martina Kurth. The Cool Vendors list and associated reports are published annually by Gartner, Inc.

"Cycle30's approach is unique in the BSS/OSS industry," said James Dunlap, president and general manager of Cycle30. "Cycle30's operator-side heritage can especially aid operators that want a partner with real-world experience running an order-to-cash platform. It's an honor to have this model recognized by an organization as prestigious as Gartner."

The Gartner 2011 Cool Vendors list and associated reports are available at the following link: http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/cool-vendors/.

Cycle30 will be exhibiting at the NCTA Cable Show June 14-16 in Chicago in booth 1404, and at Billing & OSS World's B/OSS Live! June 15-17 in Washington, D.C. in booth 223.

About Cycle30

Cycle30 provides order-to-cash and meter-to-cash billing services, hosted in the cloud, for cable, telecommunication, utility and machine-to-machine (M2M) service operators. The Cycle30 platform includes customer management, service fulfillment, billing and revenue management, service assurance, integrations, and business intelligence. Learn more at http://www.cycle30.com.

About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process

Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

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