London, UK, 7th November 2007: Tribold today announces the latest version of its leading Product Management enterprise application software, specifically built for Communication Service Providers (CSPs). Tribold Product Portfolio Manager (Tribold PPM) version 2.5 builds on the existing capabilities of the application to deliver a wide range of functional enhancements and new features designed to improve time-to-market and increase profitability for CSPs.
 
Set against the five pillars of effective product management: Product Data Management (PDM), Product Data Integration (PDI), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Product Business Intelligence (PBI) and Product Channel Management (PCM), and in alignment with TeleManagement Forum’s Shared Information / Data Model (SID), Tribold PPM v2.5 features a number of key enhancements specifically to elevate role-based portfolio management and promotion launch within the CSP.
 
CSPs will now be able to assign permissions to specific types of users such as product management, product marketing and service specification. They will also have the ability to control the users actions according to their position in the company, the department they work for and the access or visibility levels granted by the administrator, thus ensuring an overall tiered view of the product.
 
Role-based portfolio management also extends the product catalog access rights to trusted channel partners and suppliers. This capability enables external users and third parties to create, update, view and reuse products and attributes directly in the catalog and allows for faster development in the product-shaping process.
 
Coupled with the enhanced flexibility in defining and launching seasonal and competitive promotional offers, CSPs adopting the Tribold technology will now more than ever be at the forefront of product time-to-market and cost-to-market.
 
Catherine Michel, Chief Technical Officer at Tribold, said: “Real-time collaborative product development is a major step forward for CSPs, and allows for more efficient communication across the business critical PLM process. The benefits of this include reduced time-to-market and cost-to-market, and as CSPs handle an ever-increasing amount of products the need to get Product Management right is paramount.
 
“Tribold PPM v2.5 has built on the success of its predecessor and offers CSPs the best product in the market in which to handle product portfolios from inception to delivery. Effective product management is rapidly becoming the best practice within the industry, and our aim is to take this to the next level with Tribold PPM v2.5.”
 
Tribold Product Portfolio Manager version 2.5 is now generally available. For further information on Tribold Portfolio Manager v2.5 and a demonstration, visit www.tribold.com.
 
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About Tribold
Tribold is the world's leading provider of Product Management enterprise software specifically developed for Communication Service Providers (CSPs).  The Tribold Product Portfolio Manager™ (TPPM) is a single, integrated suite of enterprise product management applications that empower CSPs to put products at the heart of their business.  Tribold PPM is based on a Unified Product Catalog and includes Product Data Management (PDM), Product Data Integration (PDI), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Product Business Intelligence (PBI), and Product Channel Management (PCM) applications.
 
Dramatic improvements in product management performance enable CSPs to drive increased profit by taking products and services to market faster, improving customer service through self-selection and enhancing operational efficiency.
 
Headquartered in London, and with offices in North America and Asia, Tribold was founded in 2003 and is privately held. For more information visit www.tribold.com.
 
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