Amdocs Acquires Actix ($120M) to Provide Geo-located Network Information

Amdocs announced "..it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Actix for approximately $120 million in cash .. This acquisition expands Amdocs’ customer experience portfolio further into the network domain to manage customer experience across both networks and IT .. Amdocs will be expanding its CES (Customer Experience Systems) portfolio with geo-located network data that will drive a variety of optimization use cases.

Source: Actix 

Geo-located network information provided by Actix’s solutions, combined with customer data and capabilities from Amdocs’ market-leading policy management, BSS and OSS systems, will allow service providers to support sophisticated customer experience use cases and take proactive action based on network performance to modify and improve the experience of a specific customer or group of customers. As a result, service providers will be able to differentiate the customer experience and achieve cost-efficiencies with improved automation and optimization of their existing networks, as well as when rolling out new network technologies, such as LTE and small cells".

See "Amdocs Has Signed a Definitive Agreement to Acquire Actix, the Leading Independent Provider of Software for Mobile Network Optimization" - here.