Quintessent joins hands with Infosys for enhanced telecom B2B e-commerce

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALORE, MAY 15. Infosys Technologies, the leading information technology consulting firm, today announced an agreement with QuintessentTM Communications, Inc., a leader in the telecommunication industry's integrated services revolution, to provide collaborative development and testing of components within Quintessent's Tele.Commerce TM suite of business-to- business e-commerce software solutions. The products enable competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) to conduct electronic service ordering with incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) and other trading partners.

Under the terms of agreement, the two companies will work together to develop and test selected applications that automate data exchange between telecommunications carriers. Infosys will provide Quintessent with an offshore lab and its global delivery model, creating a virtual 24-hour workday. It will also deploy its time-boxing model, a methodology for delivering rapid functionality in the timeframes Quintessent specifies. This collaborative relationship will help accelerate the addition of new applications and capabilities within the Tele.Commerce carrier interconnection suite.

``Infosys is a global company with high-quality processes and a delivery model that reduces our time to market with business applications that carriers need in order to be competitive players,'' said Mr. Gary Scroggs, Senior Vice-President, Product Development and Services, Quintessent. ``Infosy's intellectual capital and industry knowledge will support our development effort through scalable processes and reusable methodologies.''``We are pleased to be part of the team building e-commerce applications that are critical to being successful within the competitive carrier landscape,'' stated Mr. Hari Murthy, Associate Vice-President and Head of Business Development, Communications and Product Services Practice (CAPS) for Infosys. ``By deploying our unique combination of communications expertise and the global delivery model, Infosys can help meet the needs of the communications industry.''

``We are excited about an opportunity to work on such leading- edge applications. It really motivates our team,'' concluded Mr. Babuji Srinivasan, Head of Development for Infosys' Communications and Product Services Practice in Pune, India.

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