Malena has more than 20 years experience in the finance field and joins from Stronghold Invest AB after five years as CFO. At Stronghold Invest she had strategic company-wide responsibility for financial matters, including active participation both in the parent company’s management team and the group management team.

Telepo CEO Lars Wahlström said: “This partnership with Oracle enables us to move quicker to the market and by making our solution run on OCCAS we help operators standardize their service delivery environments and stream line their operations. Our solution speedily provide them with function rich services which increase ARPU, reduce churn and improve bottom line performance.”

Telepo is an Oracle Gold Partner and will be attending the Oracle Open World event in San Francisco on October 2-6. To book a meeting please email info@telepo.com

We are excited because we are recognized as a sample vendor of mobile UC. Mobile UC is singled out in the report as the only transformational technology within the next five years. In Gartner’s terminology, mobile UC has passed the peak in the Hype Cycle and is moving towards ‘The Plateau of Productivity’. As mobile UC reaches early mainstream adoption in two to five years, it will have a transformational impact (that is, the potential to dramatically transform business operations and bring major benefits to enterprises).

Specifically, Gartner describes mobile UC as having: “Enormous potential to change the way companies plan and support communications systems... Mobile UC can transform how vendors support communications for mobile users in the enterprise.”

Telepo CEO Lars Wahlström said: “This is great news for us as Gartner is one of the world’s top analyst houses and its opinion carries great weight with our customers – telecom operators and other service providers. The mobile element of our Business Communication Solution is something we are very proud of and we are pleased to see its potential recognised. This report confirms what we have experienced as telecom operators worldwide intensify their efforts to position themselves as leaders in this new growth market.”

The full report is available here to Gartner subscribers

The report, available for purchase from Wainhouse Research, authored by Wainhouse senior research analyst Brent Kelly, highlights the strengths and competitive differentiators of the Telepo solution.

“As Wainhouse specialises in researching the collaboration, conferencing and unified communication market, it’s great that it has seen what we are doing and written a brand new vendor profile. It is a confirmation that we are heading in the right direction.” says Telepo CEO Lars Wahlstrom.

Telepo will also be speaking at Wainhouse’s CSP Summit on 23-24 May in Belgium – for more information see the event page and we hope to see you there.

Actel’s team of highly qualified industry experts along with technology and strategy consultants will help Telepo enter the Asia Pacific market place and secure new customers in the region.

“This is a very dynamic and exciting region for us, with an expanding interest in Cloud-based services and Unified Communication. Operators in the Asia Pacific market are adopting the latest technologies and Telepo is a great fit for their requirements” says Telepo VP Sales Andrew Doyle. “In order to establish our brand in the market quickly, we decided to work with Actel Consulting who are well established in the region with excellent knowledge and skills and strong relationships amongst the regions Communication Service Providers. We are already seeing the benefits of working with Actel Consulting and currently have a number of trials underway with leading Service Providers.”

Actel Consulting’s Managing Director Claude Achcar said: “We are very happy that Telepo chose to use our knowledge and services as it entered this market. Since 2002, we have offered detailed and focused consulting services to organisations ranging from technology start-ups to large multinationals. We look forward to working with Telepo.”

Telepo and Actel Consulting will be attending the Cloud Asia event, 30 May to 2 June 2011 in Singapore, where Claude Achcar will be one of the contributors. Cloud Asia 2011 will focus on enterprise cloud applications and telecom cloud services. If you would like to arrange a meeting at the show or for more information, please contact us.

Mr Giacoletto-Roggio has more than 30 years senior level experience in the IT and telecommunications industry. He is currently an Operating Partner with Advent International, a non-executive director at Colt, the senior independent director at Logica and a non-executive director at CSR.

Between 2000 and 2008 he was an Oracle Corporation Company Officer and Executive Vice President for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Prior to joining Oracle in 1997, he was President, Value Added Services, for Europe at AT&T.

His deep experience from across the industry along with his contacts, knowledge and enthusiasm will be priceless as Telepo continues to build its business, delivering leading solutions for Cloud deployments.

New Telepo Chairman Sergio Giacoletto-Roggio said: “I’m excited by the opportunity to work with Telepo. The company has a great team and a leading solution that enables telecom operators and service providers to quickly deploy business communication services to respond to growing market opportunities.”

Telepo CEO Lars Wahlström said: “The appointment of such a well respected and influential individual as Sergio shows the massive progress Telepo has made in a short space of time. His experience and knowledge will be invaluable aids as we continue our expansion.

“I believe we now have one of the strongest boardrooms in our industry with Sergio, Mikael Johnsson from Investor Growth Capital and Martin Gibson of Accel Partners.”

Please contact press@telepo.com to schedule briefings, interviews and for further information.

The 3.5 version brings new communication clients, improved user experience and functionality in multiple areas as well as further enhancements in performance and operational aspects to the already leading solution.

Telepo BCS 3.5 has full Mac support through native clients for iPhone, iPAD and OS/X. In addition to this, Telepo is releasing a new native Android mobile client to meet the increased market demand for this platform.

Telepo CTO Jörgen Björkner said: “The release of BCS 3.5 is an evolutionary step to further increase Telepo’s lead over competing cloud enabled solutions. We continue to be focused on delivering a superior user experience across all platforms and devices and with our complete solution help Service Providers stay ahead.“

In addition to the enhanced mobile platform support, considerable efforts have been spent on functionality to further increase the operational excellence of Service Providers when deploying the service as well as interoperability with IMS core networks.

Please contact press@telepo.com to schedule briefings, interviews and for additional information.

The annual Telepo Sales Awards recognize the Telepo Service Providers that have excelled in sales and marketing as well as growing the number of end users on the Telepo solution in their market. Winners were selected in two award categories, Telepo Sales Excellence and Telepo Sales Acceleration.

A Telepo Sales Excellence Award was won by Uno for the second year in a row. Once again, Uno has demonstrated excellence in delivering innovation to the market, unrivalled sales engagement and a strong commitment to meeting customer needs.

TeliaSonera Finland is also rewarded with a Telepo Sales Excellence Award for a remarkable start to its new VIP service in Finland, which has proved its excellence in sales and marketing combined with a solid go-to-market strategy.

QM Solutions is being awarded with the Sales Acceleration Award for outstanding end user growth during 2010, through successfully building and leveraging its partner network.

Andrew Doyle, Telepo VP of Sales, said: "The right sales approach is vital when explaining to enterprises that a Telepo powered solution can make them more flexible, efficient and cost effective, while increasing the productivity of their workforce. The Telepo Sales Awards are for those Service Providers that really understand what customers and end-users want and are able to communicate that brilliantly."

Telepo CEO Lars Wahlström said: “We are delighted to win this award as it shows that the wider communications market understands the power and potential of the Telepo Business Communication Solution.

“Frost & Sullivan has recognised that all our efforts are focused on helping Service Providers offer a comprehensive, easy to use and secure advanced communication solutions from their clouds.”

The Frost & Sullivan award is presented each year to a company that has developed a pioneering technology that not only enhances current products but also enables the development of newer products and applications. It recognises the high market acceptance potential of the recipient’s technology.

Frost and Sullivan press release can be found here.

Telekom Idag, the leading telecom magazine in Sweden, stated that Uno’s solution had a user interface that was “light years ahead of competition”, outclassing competitors like Telenor and Tele2. Uno was top ranked, with a score of 19 out of 20, because of its superior softphone, the usability of the product as well as the powerful administration capabilities

Telekom Idag conducted the test evaluating four areas; Administration, Mobility & FMC, Functionality and Usability, using a fictional customer business with 50 employees and a need for mobility solutions. Uno’s Telepo-based solution came top in all four categories.

Telepo CEO, Lars Wahlström said “We were delighted that Uno was named best Cloud PBX service in Sweden and it is a fitting recognition of Uno’s success with the Telepo Business Communication Solution.”

Uno had the most flexible administration, allowing customers to manage practically everything in the system, while still managing to keep it simple. Another highlighted strength was the readymade voice prompts that make it easy to get started with the solution.

In the Mobility & FMC category, Telekom Idag described the Telepo user interface within the Uno solution as one that stood out from the rest. It was easy to use and the only one in the test that offered a true mobile client that could easily be combined with a softphone. Uniquely it could also transfer calls between mobiles and softphones with just one click, a neat mobility function.

Uno also led the way in the Functionality category with a wide range of capabilities such as integrated fax inboxes, virtual conference capabilities and chat. The attendant solution was pointed out as a good compromise between complexity and functionality.

Last, but not least, Uno led the Usability category by making complex functionality easy to use. Telekom Idag emphasised the nice user interface in the softphone which easily handled everyday functions, such as sending SMS, setting up teleconferences and recording conversations.

Read the full test here.