Critical Path Picks Digiquant's IMS

ATLANTA -- Digiquant, a global provider of software infrastructure for communications providers, announced today that Critical Path, a global leader in digital communications software and services, has selected Digiquant’s Internet Management System (IMS) as the billing, provisioning, and reporting (BPR) system for its new managed messaging service.Critical Path will integrate Digiquant’s powerful BPR system into its messaging service to ensure that its billing, provisioning and reporting capabilities offer the performance and scalability necessary to meet increasing demand. Critical Path’s next generation hosted messaging service, with an anticipated launch in the first quarter of 2003, offers a suite of integrated applications that will include email, wireless access, group scheduling, personal address book, and anti-spam & anti-virus protection. Critical Path will offer carrier-class messaging applications with a quality of service that is expected to surpass what organizations can do today – at a fraction of the cost.Tracy Currie, executive vice president, operations and general manager, hosted services said, “Digiquant’s focus on IP services has resulted in a comprehensive, robust product that can be integrated tightly into our communications platform. IMS provides the enhanced functionality and operator-grade scalability Critical Path needs in a BPR system, and will enable us to meet the demand for world-class managed messaging services.”Critical Path Inc.Digiquant A/S