Frost & Sullivan, a Growth Partnership Company, announced DigitalRoute as the recipient of the 2011 Stratecast Global CSP (News - Alert) Billing Mediation Competitive Strategy Innovation Award. The award recognizes DigitalRoute’s focus on the mediation space since its inception in 2000 and was presented based on the Stratecast analysis of the communications service provider (CSP) billing mediation market.

Frost & Sullivan (News - Alert) presents this award to businesses that chart strategic strategies capable of capturing attention of the competition, which quickly adjusts to protecting and solidifying their own market position.  

Stratecast, in its new report “OSSCS 12-11 Global CSP Billing Part 3: Mediation Market Forecast and Supplier Assessment,” analyzed 49 suppliers of billing mediation functionality and, while most of them offer solutions for rating and charging, balance management, interconnect, partner management and customer support along with mediation, DigitalRoute kept its focus exclusively on its core business.

According to DigitalRoute, its MediationZone platform incorporates advanced unified Usage Management capabilities to count usage and trigger events towards external systems. For communications service providers, the ability to manage usage data is becoming increasingly important to enforce usage policies, maximize their revenues, as well as meet customer expectations of accurate and timely information about their data consumption. With DigitalRoute’s solution, service providers can serve any business process while enabling a smooth transition towards a new revenue management environment optimized for personalized tiered bundles rather than rating of individual events.

Frost & Sullivan asserted that DigitalRoute stands apart from many of its competitors with its partner management strategy and flexible real-time solution. The company’s market focus has allowed it to be one of the few companies in the end-to-end billing space to use an OEM-partner strategy. It offers its MediationZone platform through OEM agreements with partners and select system integrators, enabling it to cater to some of the largest CSPs in the world, despite its size.