ComArch Claims OSS/BSS Success

KRAKOW, Poland -- Comarch, a leading Central and Eastern European provider of software and IT solutions is continuing fast growth. In Q1 2005 faced 20% increase on the revenues with new billing and network management contracts in Middle East, Latin America and Europe. With other customer wins such as O2 Germany and Bouygues Telecom or regular contracts with Nokia, Comarch is becoming more and more noticeable market player.

Comarch is offering its flagship billing and customer care platform TYTAN, and new generation network management system InsightNet. These products have been chosen by over 40 telecom operators all over the world making Comarch a leading provider of OSS/BSS systems in the world.

Leading industry analysts have noticed Comarch potential with several positive recommendations:

‘As the Eastern European market and broader European market continues to foster growth of OSS/BSS vendors, Comarch is perhaps the strongest example of a new OSS/BSS player from the area’.Comarch OSS/BSS vendor profile, Elizabeth Rainge, IDC, October 2004.

'Comarch represents a new breed of technology vendor that may pose a real threat to other billing and OSS software providers, driven in particular by value for the price'. Comarch is a new breed of BOSS supplier. Jason Briggs, Yankee group, 04 January 2005

‘Comarch advantages lie in the relatively new generation of technologies supported by the products. Especially for InsightNet, the architectural underpinnings of the product leverage the experiences of more mature products and advances in software and networking tools’.Comarch OSS/BSS Vendor Profile, Elizabeth Rainge, IDC, October 2004

In 2004 Comarch reported high growth which exceeded forecast plans with revenues reaching 329 mln PLN which constitutes 28% increase against 2003 results. Comarch also noted very high 60% net income dynamics in 2004 which amounted to 14 mln PLN. Comarch export sales surged by 85% to 65 mln PLN.

- We are very satisfied with the achieved financial results for the last year. It is our strategic aim to maintain 20% pace of development, to increase export sales and make it constitute a growing part of Comarch revenues – says Professor Janusz Filipiak, the CEO and founder of Comarch. - We are enthusiastic about company’s growing revenues and financial indicators but also about our stronger and stronger reputation of one of the most successful IT companies from Central and Eastern Europe that develops business on the international markets.

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