Enhancements support the Evolving Business Assurance Needs of Communications Providers
OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Feb. 28, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TMNG Global (Nasdaq:TMNG), a leading provider of management consulting and software solutions to the global communications, media and entertainment industries, today announced significant enhancements to its Ascertain® Business Assurance Software Suite.
Consolidation and integration of communications industry business and operational processes and related support systems for major operators is now more critical than ever. To address the evolving business assurance needs of communications providers, TMNG Global is enhancing its Ascertain® Business Assurance Suite and perfecting its consulting methodologies and toolsets to manage these large-scale operator business environments.
The newly-released Ascertain® Business Assurance 6.0 delivers a more agile user experience, including usability and operations enhancements such as 'Task Based' end-user interaction for configuration and business logic changes; Drag and Drop Dashboards; enhanced Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) functionality to ease and speed data loading; and new features such as 'favorites', navigation panels, enhanced case management; and alert and alarm capabilities. With these new features, users are quickly able to configure complex business rules to assure operational and FINANCIAL integrity through targeted notifications and rapid visualization.
"TMNG Global's commitment to the support of business assurance in the communications industry has been renowned for the last twenty years. Having actively participated in the consolidation of systems and processes within the global communications industry for more than two decades, we have an unrivaled understanding of the challenges faced by the world's largest operators," said Rich Nespola, TMNG's Chairman and CEO. "Leveraging a single, functionally rich business assurance toolset supported by an unmatched set of professional services from one consultancy provides significant benefits to our communications provider customers."
Widely deployed by fixed line, wireless, and cable operators globally, TMNG Global's Ascertain® software has been designed specifically to help them manage multi-layered service offerings with the broadest set of capabilities in revenue, cost, cash, service, and risk management.
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About TMNG Global
TMNG Global (Nasdaq:TMNG) is a leading provider of professional services to the converging communications industry. TMNG Global and its companies CSMG and Cartesian and its base of more than 600 consultants, have provided strategy, management and technical consulting, products and services to more than 1200 communications clients worldwide. The company's clients represent all areas of the communications industry including wireless and wireline service providers; entertainment, media and technology companies; and the supporting capital formation firms that support the industry. The company is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, with offices in Beijing, Boston, London, New Jersey, New York, China and Washington, D.C. For more information about TMNG Global, visit www.tmng.com.
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