Quester supports Celona with $1.7m investment

Guy
01 August 2005

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Quester has invested an additional $1.7m in Celona Technologies, the established market leader in product portfolio management. This funding will be used to support the continued expansion of Celona's commercial team. Celona Technologies's key offering is Celona, a software product delivering carrier-grade Product Portfolio Management for telecoms operators. Product Portfolio Management enables operators to use their existing OSS and BSS infrastructures more efficiently by providing a single, federated view of product and resource data across the organisation. This provides operators with a simple way to advance convergence of their services and to rationalise their product set. In addition to this, the implementation of Celona supports operators in delivering complex customer satisfaction capabilities such as self-service provisioning.

Leading light of the Telecoms industry, Michael Berman has also invested in Celona Technologies alongside Quester and has joined the Celona board. He has worked with Quester before and sat with Simon Acland on the board of Aethos Communication Systems, the pioneer of pre-paid solutions for GSM operators, which was successfully sold to Logica in 1998.

Berman took control of Metrica in 1993 and, in three years, built the company's product into the industry standard mobile network performance monitoring solution. When Metrica was acquired by US equipment vendor ADC Telecoms in 1996, he remained as CEO for a further year. In 1999 he became chairman of Across Wireless, which was acquired by Sonera in 2000. He was chairman of wireless performance engineering specialists Actix from 2001 until early 2005.