Dublin, Ireland & London, UK - May 21, 2012: Today, at TM Forum Management World, Tribold, the world's leading provider of Enterprise Product Management (EPM) software specifically developed for Communication Service Providers (CSPs), announced Alcatel Lucent has signed a global OEM Agreement for Tribold EPM as their Enterprise Product Management solution after a rigorous competitive selection process.

The agreement enables Alcatel Lucent to OEM Tribold EPM in either stand-alone, as part of wider end-to-end BSS, or in managed network and operations solutions to the market. Significantly, the agreement will put Tribold EPM at the heart of the Alcatel BSS suite that includes Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Progress Order Management and Tribold EPM.

Ernest Margitta, Tribold's VP Marketing & Partners, commented: "We are delighted to enter into this exciting partnership and look forward to working with Alcatel Lucent. Tribold EPM standalone or as part of the Alcatel BSS suite will provide Alcatel Lucent customers outstanding product management capability."

Jean-Francois Boyer at Alcatel Lucent commented: "During the selection process we clearly recognized Tribold EPM as the market leader offering the highest levels of functionality for the lowest total cost of ownership." Boyer concluded: "We are already seeing strong demand across our customer base and look forward to many joint successes in the future."

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Press Contact: Ernest Margitta (marketing@tribold.com) +44 20 7665 4000.
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