Celona announces AlTion as a new certified partner as market adoption of its application data migration software continues to grow.

Clarity Integration, Computaris, AlTion and MphasiS commit to business-centric application data migration with Celona.

London, 29^th March 2010: Celona, leaders in business-centric application data migration software today announced a set of new certified alliances with leading data management industry integrators and consultants. The alliances combine the Celona Evolve application data migration software platform with the proven consulting and integration skills that enable enterprises to significantly reduce the transitional business risk associated with their application data migration programmes including for Mergers and acquisitions, break-ups, transformations, Legacy application consolidation into new strategic environments and application upgrades.

Data migration has been a long standing problem area for enterprises spanning Telecoms, Financial Services, Utilities, Manufacturing and Public Sector, with over 60% of migrations overrunning in time and cost*, many programs of which result in failure across business sectors. The rise of business process-centric applications such as CRM and ERP and new application architectures has increased the complexity and issues of data migration. Therefore the need for both competence in the IT and business environments and purpose built software tools for application data migration that can be successfully utilised at a business control level to de-risk and remove enterprise migration costs, has never been so high.

The emergence of business process-centric applications has created a clear requirement for new generation software and professional services data migration offerings that can provide the technical and business level enablement to meet today’s needs for agility in the changing enterprise landscape.

The new partnerships include:

• Clarity Integration - who provides consulting, delivery and software services for Information management solutions that enable Improved operational efficiency, Monitor performance and change processes, maintain competitive advantage in their market and Introduce a greater Insight within their organisation
• Computaris - who specialize in consultancy, system integration and software development for the mobile telecoms industry in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The provide the highest level of expertise in the domain of Mobile OSS/BSS: pre-paid, post-paid and convergent billing, adjunct rating
• MphasiS - who deliver global Infrastructure Technology Outsourcing, Applications Services Outsourcing and Business Process Outsourcing services through a combination of technology know-how, domain and process expertise. MphasiS brings to their clients a credible and experienced global leadership team driving service delivery through the next generation global delivery model
• Altion – who deliver network support system software products and services to telecommunications network providers. Founded in 1992 AlTion has developed in-depth technical expertise in the development and deployment of service provisioning, service activation and network inventory solutions. AlTion have successfully delivered Network Inventory solutions for Fixed Line, Mobile and Satellite operators.

Charles Andrews, CEO of Celona, commented, “We are delighted that Clarity Integration, Altion, Computaris and MphasiS have recognised that Celona Evolve software offers their clients a new generation and business-centric approach to application data migration. Celona Evolve software removes application data migration from the critical path by removing the transitional risk of application migrations, with less cost, earlier results and by creating business agility“.

* Source: Bloor Research

About Celona

Celona is the leading provider of Application Data Migration software specifically developed for organisations who are managing complex application migrations driven by transformation, or who are upgrading their legacy systems and applications to optimise efficiency, customer focus and costs. Celona Evolve is the software platform of choice for organisations who want to remove data migration from the critical path, that require a business-centric application data migration approach which delivers zero downtime, lowers risks and costs with compliance, in the shortest timeframes. Headquartered in London and with a worldwide customer base, Celona was founded in 2005 and is privately held. For more information visit. www.celona.com.

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