Award-Winning CSG Ascendon™ Now Powers
Online Movies, TV, Books, Music and Apps Service for one of the World's
Largest Entertainment Brands
ENGLEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
CSG
International (NASDAQ: CSGS), a global provider of interactive
transaction-driven solutions and services, today announced that its CSG
Ascendon digital services platform now supports a new digital membership
service offering the biggest collection of movies, TV, books, music and
apps from one of the world's most loved entertainment brands.
The new membership-based streaming service is available in the United
Kingdom and allows consumers to explore entertainment content through a
rich and colorful interface, powered by CSG Ascendon. Consumers can
stream instantly or download an expansive digital library of hundreds of
movies and books and thousands of songs and TV episodes via the
Internet, app, or via streaming content to TV using Apple Airplay or
Chromecast. CSG Ascendon enables consumers to add up to 10 compatible
devices with their subscription and create up to six guest profiles, as
well as watch movies and TV shows and read books in up to five different
languages - English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
For the new streaming service, CSG provides industry expertise and
solutions across offer management, secure commerce, consumer management,
video delivery and digital rights management in a multi-device,
multi-media, multi-language offering. The breadth the Ascendon solution
enables the client to dynamically drive targeted offers to specific
consumers while ensuring the integrity of their digital assets is
maintained at all times.
"We are honored to power this new groundbreaking service that brings a
new level of interactivity and breadth of content to a broad range of
devices," said Kent Steffen, president of CSG Digital Services.
"The Ascendon platform helps our customers delight consumers through an
interactive experience, secure content delivery, targeted offers,
integrated monetization options, ecosystem enablement and cloud-based
entitlements. Combined with a deep catalog of digital content and
immersive experiences, CSG Ascendon delivers an easy to use experience
that will keep consumers coming back for more."
Through its leading-edge functionality, CSG Ascendon enables consumers
to seamlessly browse, pay for and play video content across multiple
device platforms. CSG Ascendon powers innovative digital service
strategies for several market-leading studios, retailers and service
providers, including Comcast through XFINITY
On Campus; Sony
Pictures Home Entertainment; Cineplex
Entertainment; ESPN;
Media-Saturn;
and more. The platform overlays existing billing support systems,
point-of-sale and device app stores, enabling providers to quickly
launch and monetize new digital services without the need to replace
existing infrastructure.
About CSG Ascendon
Ascendon is a cloud-based digital commerce platform that allows service
providers to quickly create, launch, and monetize compelling offers of
digital services including digital content and data across users,
channels and devices. Purposefully built as a unified suite, Ascendon
integrates the full scope of business operations - from product creation
and sales offer, to order and activation, to revenue management and
partner settlement. Ascendon is delivered through flexible delivery
models, including cloud and managed services. With no investment in new
infrastructure, and virtually limitless scalability, service providers
can fulfill digital services that consumers are demanding now and in the
future.
About CSG International
CSG
Systems International, Inc. (NASDAQ:
CSGS) is a market-leading business support solutions and services
company serving the majority of the top 100 global communications
service providers, including leaders in fixed, mobile and
next-generation networks such as AT&T, Charter Communications, Comcast,
DISH, Orange, Reliance, SingTel Optus, T-Mobile, Telefonica, Time Warner
Cable, Reliance, SingTel Optus, Vodafone, Vivo and Verizon. With over 30
years of experience and expertise in voice, video, data and content
services, CSG International offers a broad portfolio of licensed and
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based products and solutions that help
clients compete more effectively, improve business operations and
deliver a more impactful customer experience across a variety of touch
points. For more information, visit our website at www.csgi.com.
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