LONDON -- IIR Billing Systems 2003, Booth #B5 -- Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), the world’s leading provider of billing and CRM, announced today the availability of version 5.0 of its Amdocs Enabler product.

Key features of Amdocs Enabler 5.0 include:

“Amdocs Enabler 5.0 is a key milestone along the Amdocs Enabler product roadmap, reflecting a strong market vision and an appreciation of the changing needs of the industry’s leading operators,” said Paul Hughes, Director of Billing and Payment Application Strategies, Yankee Group. “The advanced functionality inherent in Amdocs Enabler 5.0 will allow operators to generate new revenues and retain valuable customers, while reducing implementation costs and risk.”

Amdocs Enabler 5.0 drives increased profitability and customer loyalty by building on its flexible charging functionality and unique support for voice, data, content and commerce services. Charging functionality advancements within version 5.0 include advanced balance management capabilities, enhanced support for micro-payments, and support of leading industry standards for advice of charge. Combined with the Amdocs Enabler proven ability to support prepaid-postpaid service bundling, these advanced charging capabilities can facilitate the innovative services that operators are planning to drive increased profitability and improved customer loyalty.

Amdocs Enabler 5.0 minimizes cost of ownership with its inherent carrier grade characteristics and extensibility. Version 5.0 includes architecture modifications that extend the Amdocs Enabler market leading scalability, performance and parallel processing. The extensibility of Amdocs Enabler is achieved via pre-integration with the complete product suite from Amdocs, providing strategic options for customers to extend their platforms seamlessly, reducing cost and risk, while leveraging investments along the way. Version 5.0 also provides lifetime out-of-the-box integration with the Amdocs ClarifyCRM product suite – more than simple point-in-time integration, this means that service providers enjoy lower cost of ownership via a common vision and coordinated roadmap across billing and CRM products over their lifetime. The underlying architectural approach that facilitates this also strengthens the ability of Amdocs Enabler to effectively integrate with other CRM products. In addition, Amdocs Enabler 5.0 also reduces cost of ownership by supporting multi-market or multinational operations including multiple currencies, virtual operators and multiple lines of business – including wireline, wireless, IP and broadband – features uniquely suited for global operators.

“Amdocs Enabler 5.0 is an extensible, carrier grade product which addresses the emerging needs of leading, innovative operators. We are proud to see both existing and new customers embrace it as their billing system of choice,” said Michael Matthews, Chief Marketing Officer at Amdocs. “Amdocs Enabler ensures market leaders retain a competitive edge while generating significant cost efficiencies at minimum risk.”

Amdocs Ltd.