Industry leading Enterprise Product Management solution deployed as Cloud Service on Microsoft Cloud Platform

Dublin, Ireland & London, UK - May 22, 2012: Today, at TM Forum Management World, Tribold, a leading provider of Enterprise Product Management (EPM) software specifically developed for Communication Service Providers (CSPs), announced Tribold EPM interoperability with Windows Azure as part of its overall cloud strategy to deliver on-premise, private and public cloud based Enterprise Product management.

Tribold EPM in the Cloud with Windows Azure will allow Marketing and IT users of the Tribold EPM application to engage immediately with their products reducing time to market for products and cost of delivery for new services. Cloud based EPM will also provide a wider reach into the CSP organisation supporting marketing and IT collaboration around the single point of truth for across the product lifecycle.

Simon Muderack, Tribold’s CEO, commented: “We are thrilled to announce Tribold EPM in the Cloud with Windows Azure. Speed of deployment and rollout, together with performance and scalability, are increasingly critical factors for CSP when deploying BSS solutions. Our joint solution with Microsoft delivers on these requirements and provides the added agility and flexibility traditionally associated with cloud solutions.”

Walid Abu-Hadba, corporate vice president, developer and platform evangelism at Microsoft commented: “We are delighted to see Tribold expanding their cloud offering for communication service providers, with Windows Azure at its core. Microsoft’s cloud platform delivers greater business agility to service providers, while significantly reducing capital expenditure so that they can focus on their core business. Tribold’s long term commitment to Microsoft platforms has helped them focus exclusively on delivering an agile and transformational approach to product management. Tribold’s adoption of Windows Azure highlights the scalability, reliability and performance of the Microsoft cloud platform. Together we are ready to meet the most demanding product management needs of communication service providers around the world.”