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      <title>Download a complimentary copy of new Gartner report</title>
	<link>http://www.metratech.com/Billing-Solutions/Financial-Services-Billing.aspx</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;Read newly published research on critical issues facing the Financial Services market.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Leading analyst Dan Baker of TRI speaks about enterprise billing</title>
	<link>http://www.metratech.com/News-and-Events/Latest-News/Dan-Baker-speaks-about-enterprise-billing.aspx</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;Dan Baker interviewed on why enterprise billing is a key market.&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;/LinkClick.aspx?link=264&amp;amp;tabid=81&quot;&gt;Watch the video&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;img width=&quot;200&quot; height=&quot;113&quot; src=&quot;/Portals/0/video/Dan-Baker-thumbnail.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Dan Baker Interview&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>The requirements for enterprise billing</title>
	<link>http://www.metratech.com/News-and-Events/Podcasts.aspx</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;Independent consultant Paul Fegan of Mala Communications discusses the changes and key issues facing enterprise billing today&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Income-based billing - Dealing with limited capacities by valuing the customer’s time</title>
	<link>http://www.metratech.com/News-and-Events/Latest-News/Vanilla-Plus-article-on-incomebased-billing.aspx</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;Doug Zone and George Huitmena expand on their recent presentation at TeleManagement World in Nice&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Billing World magazine interviews Scott Swartz</title>
	<link>http://www.metratech.com/News-and-Events/Latest-News/MultiVertical-Experience-Preps-MetraTech.aspx</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;Scott discusses MetraTech&amp;rsquo;s multi-vertical experience and new customer, On-Stream&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>How your billing system can keep up with organizational changes – not yours, but your customer’s!</title>
	<link>http://www.metratech.com/News-and-Events/Webinars.aspx</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;Register for MetraTech&amp;rsquo;s latest webinar featuring leading industry analyst Dan Baker.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>MetraTech publishes Meeting Zone Case Study</title>
	<link>http://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=lobby.jsp&eventid=219627&sessionid=1&key=04E3F460A9281BAC5DE5FC2CEF283794&eventuserid=37952769</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;Listen to Bryan Walkey, president of Meeting Zone North America and Scott Swartz discuss &amp;ldquo;Giving your Customers control of their Services&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Connected Planet interview with Doug Zone</title>
	<link>http://www.metratech.com/News-and-Events/Latest-News/Connected-Planet-interview-with-Doug-Zone.aspx</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;How can operators influence customer behavior on overcrowded mobile networks? Doug Zone discusses the options.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Income-Based Billing Podcast</title>
	<link>http://www.metratech.com/News-and-Events/Podcasts.aspx</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;Doug Zone addresses the hot topic of the moment, as presented to the recent TMF conference&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Video interview with MetraTech CEO Scott Swartz</title>
	<link>http://www.metratech.com/News-and-Events/Video/Video-interview-with-MetraTech-CEO-Scott-Swartz.aspx</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;Speaking on a range of issues at the recent TeleManagement World in Nice.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>New Role for Service Providers Podcast</title>
	<link>http://www.metratech.com/News-and-Events/Podcasts.aspx</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;Doug Zone discusses current threats to operators and the new role they should adopt in today&amp;rsquo;s market&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Letting Customers Have It Their Way</title>
	<link>http://www.destinationcrm.com/Articles/Web-Exclusives/Viewpoints/Let-Customers-Have-It-Their-Way-66493.aspx</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;Stop the inflexibility that threatens the sale says MetraTech Product Marketing Director Adrian King a newly published article in CRM magazine&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>New Video Discusses Recent Benchmark</title>
	<link>http://www.metratech.com/News-and-Events/Video/MetraNet-benchmark-performance-results.aspx</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;Doug Zone discusses the recent MetraNet benchmark results with Mike Barrell of telcoprofessionals.com&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>New Podcast Addresses Horizontal Billing</title>
	<link>http://www.metratech.com/News-and-Events/Podcasts.aspx</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;Doug Zone and Alex Leslie of BillingViews.com discuss the growing importance of the subject of horizontal billing&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Service-Assurance Aware Billing</title>
	<link>http://www.metratech.com/News-and-Events/Latest-News/Billing-World-publishes-Doug-Zone-article.aspx</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;Doug Zone writes in Billing World that while service assurance may appear to be the prototypical business problem &amp;mdash; easy to define, but difficult to execute &amp;ndash; there&amp;rsquo;s more to it than that.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Banks need to bundle and price right for profit</title>
	<link>http://www.metratech.com/News-and-Events/Latest-News/MetraTech-interviewed-in-Asia-Banking-and-Finance.aspx</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;Financial services companies will not longer take profit opportunities for granted in a post-recessionary world, says Doug Zone&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>MetraTech interview in Telecom Asia</title>
	<link>http://www.metratech.com/News-and-Events/Latest-News/Collecting-for-the-cloud-.aspx</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;Doug Zone discusses the challenges of enterprise billing and collecting for the Cloud in the latest issue of Telecom Asia&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Doug Zone interview published by ZDNet Asia</title>
	<link>http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/business/0,39044229,62060970,00.htm</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;A feature interview in which MetraTech&amp;rsquo;s CTO discusses how the complexities of utility billing could create an opportunity for telcos.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>MetraTech launches three new podcasts heading into Mobile World Congress 2010</title>
	<link>http://www.metratech.com/News-and-Events/Podcasts.aspx</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;240&quot; height=&quot;98&quot; style=&quot;padding-top: 10px;&quot; alt=&quot;Mobile World Congress 2010&quot; src=&quot;/Portals/0/mwc-banner.gif&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Three new podcasts are now available on this website.&amp;nbsp; MetraTech CTO Doug Zone addresses Enterprise Billing home truths and also topical issues in Mobile Data.&amp;nbsp; Plus industry expert Paul Mitchell, former head of Billing and RA for Cable and Wireless and Energis with his take on the challenges of billing for the enterprise.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>MetraTech Success Story Covered by Sunday Boston Globe</title>
	<link>http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2009/09/27/massachusetts_may_outpace_us_in_economic_recovery/</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;A feature article in the Boston Globe Sunday edition (September 27) highlights the MetraTech success story in a challenging economy and quotes CEO Scott Swartz.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Media Coverage of MetraTech’s “Best Overall” at Global Billing Awards</title>
	<link>http://www.metratech.com/Portals/0/PDF/Awards.pdf</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;MetraTech Corp receives World BSS Award in Amsterdam with comments from Chairman of the Judging panel, Hugh Roberts&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Expert Opinion: Doug Zone Addresses Enterprise Billing</title>
	<link>http://www.vanillaplus.com/im_files/pages/VP_Aug_09_46-47.pdf</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;MetraTech's CTO, Doug Zone, gives some pointers on what to look for when tackling the challenges presented by Enterprise Billing.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Scott Swartz interviewed on Software as a Service</title>
	<link>http://www.metratech.com/Portals/0/PDF/Vanilla-Plus-Talking-Heads.pdf</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;MetraTech Corp CEO Scott Swartz speaks about Cloud Computing and SaaS in the cover story of the latest issue of Vanilla Plus&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Video: David Blair on What's Next for ISVs</title>
	<link>http://www.metratech.com/News-and-Events/Latest-News/David-Blair-on-Whats-Next-for-ISVs.aspx</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;MetraTech&amp;rsquo;s director of product architecture on Polymorphic Iterators, Concurrency, CRM and MetraFlow in a video recently filmed for Microsoft&amp;rsquo;s ISV channel.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>MetraNet 6.0 featured in CRM Magazine</title>
	<link>http://www.destinationcrm.com/Articles/CRM-News/Daily-News/Customer-Care-and-Billing-Become-Flexible-53601.aspx</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;Recently released MetraNet v6.0 is featured in an article in CRM magazine featuring interviews with CTO Doug Zone and Yankee Group analyst Ari Banerjee who concludes &amp;ldquo;the company&amp;rsquo;s flexibility impresses me.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Contactless News covers MetraNet implementation</title>
	<link>http://www.contactlessnews.com/2009/03/11/contactless-payment-cards-next-step-for-transit-agencies</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;Leading magazine writes about MetraTech&amp;rsquo;s innovative deployment at Utah Transport Authority and predicts contactless payment is the next step for transit agencies.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Donald Trump Praises MetraTech-enabled Business Model!</title>
	<link>http://acnprimetime.com/acn-trump-video.html</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;Multi-billionaire business icon and Apprentice executive producer, Donald J. Trump has heaped praise on MetraNet customer ACN and its innovative business model. ACN recently appeared on the prime-time reality show &amp;ndash; The Celebrity Apprentice. Watch the video of Donald Trump&amp;rsquo;s endorsement using the link below.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Billing World Interview with Scott Swartz</title>
	<link>http://www.billingworld.com/news/briefs/metratech-proves-diverse-capabilities.html</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;BW editor Tim McElligott speaks to MetraTech CEO Scott Swartz about Dynamic Business Modeling and MetraNet at Microsoft Online&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Financial Times coverage of MetraTech implementation</title>
	<link>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/72156ff4-c2cc-11dd-a5ae-000077b07658,s01=1.html?nclick_check=1</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;FT Digital Business section highlights value of dynamic customer charging in Cloud Computing&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Frost &amp; Sullivan publishes White Paper on Business Transformation</title>
	<link>http://www.metratech.com/Portals/0/PDF/Supporting-Business Transformation.pdf</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;Leading analyst house features MetraNet in report highlighting growing importance of Dynamic Business Modeling.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>MetraTech/Blyk Case Study featured</title>
	<link>http://www.metratech.com/Portals/0/PDF/VanillaPlus-dec07.pdf</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;The latest issue of Vanilla Plus highlights MetraTech support for Blyk’s innovative business model.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>MetraTech featured in Billing Journal</title>
	<link>http://www.metratech.com/Portals/0/PDF/Billing-Journal-Article.pdf</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;MetraTech CTO tackles the issue of billing as a theft prevention mechanism       in the Global Billing Association&amp;rsquo;s Autumn digest.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>Doug Zone writes Thought Leader article for this month’s Inside Billing newsletter</title>
	<link>http://www.metratech.com/Portals/0/PDF/Inside-Billing-Article.pdf</link>
      <description> &lt;p&gt;MetraTech chief technology officer lays out vision for market in Global Billing Association&amp;rsquo;s leading publication.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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