AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 24, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Shango®, an industry leading Integration-as-a-Service platform provider, today announced that it has signed a 5-year agreement with IIS Group that will simplify service orchestration across the various platforms IIS deploys to its fast growing, retail VoIP customer base.
Shango, the company formerly known as Starview Solutions, had previously sold its retail base of VoIP customers to the IIS Group. As with so many of the mergers taking place in the industry, the combination left IIS with multiple VoIP platforms in its network including Broadworks, NetSapiens and Free Switch. After an exhaustive search, the company selected the Shango solution to streamline how it activates and manages customer telephone numbers across all of the VoIP platforms.
"We chose Shango as our Operations Systems Support (OSS) platform because it's truly different from other competing platforms that we researched and tested. Shango allows us to not only activate and manage our different systems as one platform, it also allows us to multi-tenant all of our systems down through to our VARS and agents," said Anthony Jett, President of IIS Group. "We needed a fast-to-market solution that solved the daily challenge of managing customer telephone numbers across our disparate platforms. Shango met all of our requirements and will save IIS valuable back-end resource time and money --- not to mention solidify our customer support."
"We're witnessing a time of great consolidation in the hosted VoIP and related market segments as companies seek economies of scale and new market share. But often combining disparate back-ends can drag down the short and long term value of these deals, as no two set of systems, interfaces or process are ever the same," said David Walsh, CEO and founder of Shango. "Shango was designed to eliminate integration pains and standardize management so that combining companies can stay focused on the revenue gains and customer benefits intended by their merger strategies."
About Shango
Shango is an Integration-as-a-Service platform provider that standardizes the way telecom operators access, manage and deploy their ever-expanding number of legacy and next-gen 3rd party technologies. Shango customers leverage its translational API and web-based management interfaces to activate legacy network services, onboard and orchestrate next-generation cloud services, and empower customers their own channels toward self-sufficiency. Based in Austin, TX, Shango's 400+ customers include many Tier 1 global telcos, cable MSO's, VoIP and mobile carriers, hosted UCaaS providers, CLECs, and applications service providers. For more information, visit www.shango.com.
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About IIS Group, LLC
The service offerings at IIS encompass data and voice networking and virtual network infrastructure, designed with one goal: to reduce costs and increase overall productivity for its users. IIS provides a range of hosted software and network applications, making those solutions available to the employees of its clients from their office desktop as well as cellular locations. IIS Group traditionally offers a complete suite of voice services, including SIP trunking, Hosted VoIP and IP PBX. IIS Group's VoIP services allow for provisioning and hosted communication packages that reduce a client's need for prohibitive capital expenditure by offering essential solutions on a hosted basis. For more information, visit www.iisgroupllc.com.