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Hansen CCB Enables a New Era of Digital Agility and Automation for Germany’s wilhelm.tel

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August 17th, 2021 – Hansen Technologies (ASX:HSN) is pleased to announce today that it has signed a new agreement with wilhelm.tel GmbH, a multi-service provider of telecommunications services in Germany. Under the terms of this agreement, Hansen will upgrade wilhelm.tel’s existing version of Hansen CCB – NavibillingCX to the latest version and replace their existing CRM system. As a result of this upgrade, wilhelm.tel will receive enhanced customer care, billing and product management capabilities, as well as improved accounting and provisioning processes.

Jens Seedorff, General Manager, wilhelm.tel, commented: “Our partnership with Hansen has a strong track record of operational efficiency. It was based on this that we decided that Hansen were the ideal vendor to help further enable the next chapter of our digital transformation initiative – as we confront not only changing customer expectations, but a telecommunications industry undergoing a major degree of transition as well.”

Scott Weir, Regional President, EMEA, Hansen Technologies, commented: “wilhelm.tel is a longstanding customer of Hansen, supporting their customers for over twenty years with our NavibillingCX product. We are excited to have been selected to not only upgrade wilhelm.tel to our new version of NavibillingCX–based on Microsoft Business Central – but also introduce significant new functionality that improves the customer experience, while accelerating time-to-market. wilhelm.tel’s commitment to Hansen and our product demonstrates the strength of our relationship and provides a strong foundation to future-proof their business for many years to come.”

Hansen CCB, part of the Create-Deliver-Engage Suite of software, provides flexible rating, billing and customer care for communications and pay-TV service providers. Part of the Hansen CCB product family, NavibillingCX is a tailor-made unified solution for fixed and mobile telephony, as well as broadband, IP services, cable TV and interconnect billing. It provides end-to-end customer lifecycle management, and also delivers full ERP capabilities including financial controls, reporting and analytics via Microsoft integration.

For further information about Hansen Technologies, please visit www.hansencx.com.

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About Hansen Technologies
Hansen Technologies (ASX: HSN) is a leading global provider of software and services to the energy, water and communications industries. With its award-winning software portfolio, Hansen serves 580+ customers in over 80 countries, helping them to create, sell, and deliver new products and services, manage and analyze customer data, and control critical revenue management and customer support processes.
For more information, visit www.hansencx.com

About wilhelm.tel
Founded in 1999 as a completely owned subsidiary of Stadtwerke Norderstedt, wilhelm.tel GmbH is a nationwide pioneer among operators of high-performance fiber optic networks. From the very beginning, the company has consistently followed a Fiber-to-the-Building strategy, directly connecting every building to its fiber optic network. Since 2020, wilhelm.tel has been increasingly laying fiber optics right up to apartment buildings, thus guaranteeing maximum bandwidth to the customer.
The fiber-optic network, which currently comprises around 2,500 kilometers, has long since crossed the city limits of its home market in Norderstedt and is growing steadily in the direction of Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Lower Saxony. wilhelm.tel regularly sets new standards nationwide with pioneering technology and products and services that are precisely tailored to customer needs. With a resulting market share of up to 90 per cent, wilhelm.tel is considered the most sought-after provider in the Hamburg metropolitan region.
In 2019, wilhelm.tel GmbH, with 130 employees, generated an annual turnover of 73 million euros.
For more information on Wilhelm.tel, visit https://www.wilhelm-tel.de/

Contacts:
Adnan Bashir
Senior Manager, Global Corporate Communications
Hansen Technologies
+1 647-204-0999

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“Modernise with precision” describes a low-risk, targeted approach to BSS/OSS modernisation where operators upgrade only the parts of their digital stack that create the greatest impact. Instead of embarking on high-risk, multi-year full-stack replacements, Tier-1 telcos selectively introduce cloud-native BSS/OSS, API-driven telecom architecture, AI-ready data layers, and TMF-compliant BSS components.
This modular strategy reduces cost and disruption, allowing operators to strengthen areas such as product agility, order orchestration, customer experience, and operational efficiency while maintaining stability in core environments. It aligns directly with TM Forum’s Open Digital Architecture (ODA), which encourages a composable, interoperable, future-proof approach to telco transformation.

2. Why is time-to-market so important for telecom monetisation today?

Telecom monetisation increasingly depends on the ability to respond quickly to new commercial opportunities – from enterprise IoT solutions and digital services to 5G monetisation, wholesale partnerships, and B2B vertical offerings. In this environment, operators that can design, package, and activate new services in days rather than months gain a clear revenue advantage.
Legacy catalogues, rigid product hierarchies, and tightly coupled BSS architectures make rapid innovation difficult. Modern operators therefore prioritise catalog-driven architecture, agile/composable BSS, and cloud-native BSS capabilities to give business teams control over offer creation without relying on long IT delivery cycles. Faster launch cycles = faster monetisation.

 

3. What is slowing down product launch cycles for many telcos?

The primary obstacles are deeply entrenched in legacy architecture: hard-coded product models, outdated catalogues, nonstandard integrations, and heavy IT dependencies. These constraints slow down even minor product changes, creating friction between commercial teams and IT.
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Improving accuracy requires strengthening the underlying architecture – through modern CPQ for telecom, clean data models, cloud-native BSS/OSS, and robust API-driven telecom architecture. When quoting, ordering, provisioning, and billing are accurate, customer satisfaction increases naturally.

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8. How is Hansen involved in TM Forum and ODA?

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This approach reduces risk, accelerates value, and aligns with ODA’s principles of composability and openness. Operators can modernise at their own pace while still maintaining service continuity.

10. How does modular modernisation reduce risk?

Modular transformation focuses on improving specific parts of the architecture – such as product agility, order accuracy, unified data, or 5G monetisation – without changing everything at once. Each module is integrated, tested, and scaled independently, which reduces disruption and improves predictability.
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A unified, AI-ready data model brings real-time visibility across commercial and operational processes, enabling faster decision-making and more reliable service execution. It also allows operators to detect issues earlier, automate root cause analysis, and reduce order fallout.
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13. How do Hansen’s solutions fit into a Tier-1 telco transformation strategy?

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This flexibility supports transformation at the operator’s own pace, aligned to business priorities, regulatory requirements, and commercial objectives.

14. What benefits can operators expect from a layered or hybrid modernisation approach?

A layered or hybrid approach allows operators to combine existing systems with cloud-native components, enabling transformation without disruption. Key benefits include:
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15. How do industry standards such as ODA accelerate telecom digital transformation?

Industry standards like TM Forum ODA and TMF Open APIs reduce integration complexity, promote interoperability, and give operators a trusted blueprint for modernisation. They ensure that new BSS/OSS components can plug into existing environments without custom engineering.
By reducing dependence on bespoke integrations and enabling modular deployment, standards significantly lower long-term cost and accelerate transformation across the business. They also future proof the architecture for new technologies, including AI, automation, and 5G service innovation.


 
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