Protiviti announced that it is Partnering with Zain,the leading mobile telecommunication operator in the Middle East and Africa with a commercial presence in 23 countries,to partner and participate in the TM Forum Catalyst Program 2010.
TM Forum,one of the largest communications and media industry associations in the world representing more than 700 companies and 185 countries. The Catalyst program is the TM Forums innovative approach to rapidly launching and creating leading-edge solutions.
Based on Service Providers most pressing requirements,teams of system integrators and suppliers collaborate on a solution that culminates in a series of live demonstrations.
Protiviti has also collaborated with Connectiva a leading provider of revenue and risk management solutions,Dataupia,a leader in highly scalable,cost-effective,MPP data warehouse appliances,to help establish and demonstrate best practices for m-Commerce management. Entitled Developing a scalable m-Commerce model, the Catalyst project is based on Zains pioneering m-Commerce platform that has been successfully implemented in 7 African countries and has more than 12+ million subscribers.
Protiviti has developed the Process and Governance Framework which defines a common standard for integration of different Mobile commerce models. The framework will be a significant milestone in telecom history which will decisively transform the way the world will conduct business. Protivitis Scalable M-Commerce Model offers flexible solutions on the standards,protocols and platforms that operators can possibly adopt and make the above changes possible. said Sanjeev Agarwal Managing Director Protiviti Member Firm (Middle East). Our GSMA award winning Mobile Commerce service ZAP empowers customer with full access to financial services on their mobile phones.
In collaboration with industry leaders Connectiva,Protiviti and Dataupia,we will showcase a solution that provides actionable business insight and analytics for enabling campaign management. We will also propose integration standards for Mobile Commerce providers, said George Held,Marketing Director,Products and Innovation,Zain Group.


