Aria Adds Sylien Entertainment to its Growing Roster of Gaming Clients
Media, PA — June 28, 2006 — Today Aria Systems — the leading provider of on-demand billing for the gaming industry announced that Sylien Entertainment is the latest organization to choose Aria for its comprehensive billing and customer management solution.
Sylien Entertainment, based in Ottawa, Canada, is currently developing several “total” virtual game experiences including “Trade Wars” and “Paradise Project”. Sylien chose to integrate Aria’s on-demand billing and customer management software as key components of their new products and service offerings. This approach enables both companies to leverage Aria’s extensive functionality, “pay as you grow” subscription-based pricing, and rapid deployment model.
Sylvain Rochon, CEO of Sylien Entertainment, said, “We’ve had the experience of evaluating traditional billing software and find the breadth and depth of Aria Billing & Customer Management well beyond anything else on the market. Our games require seamless back office integration to provide an exceptional total customer experience. Aria provides a platform that can support multiple games with a single infrastructure. We can rely on Aria to support Sylien as our customer base and game portfolio grows.”
“Sylien recognized that Aria has the best billing and customer management solution for the gaming market” commented Ed Sullivan, CEO/Founder of Aria. “Our scalability, configuration options, and on-demand model are perfect for developers that want to deliver a world-class customer experience from the point of game launch.”
Aria is the only complete solution for billing and customer management that truly supports online gaming. Unlike traditional billing software that constrains the business model and ignores the customer relationship, Aria features a flexible on-demand delivery model configurable business process rules, and significant cost advantages. And the Aria solution is architected for ease of implementation and quicker time-to-market. Implementations are complete in days to weeks vs. months to years for traditional back office software.
About Aria Systems
Aria Systems is the leading provider of subscription billing solutions and offers the only "monetization platform" encompassing the full spectrum of Billing and Customer Lifecycle Management services. The Aria A+ Billing Platform offers clients the on-demand billing industry's most flexible tool for accelerating revenue capture, optimizing cash flow, and enabling actionable market intelligence while significantly reducing operating costs throughout each phase of the customer lifecycle. Acknowledged as the SaaS billing leader in terms of experience and execution, Aria manages and maintains more than 1 million accounts and has processed more than 1 billion transactions since it began operations in 2003. With Hummer Winblad, Venrock, and software billing icon Dave Labuda as investors, the company is based in Media, Pa. (metropolitan Philadelphia), with offices in the San Francisco bay area as well. For more information, visit www.ariasystems.com.
About Sylien Entertainment
Sylien Entertainment is an Ottawa-based company that has the long-term goal of not only innovating entertainment, but also creating new experiences. Their first planned product, Trade Wars: Tournament is certain to attract a nostalgic player base that remembers the old classic from the good old BBS days. “Trade Wars” is a 22-year-old brand name centered on an online social environment that fosters fun competition amongst peer players. The classic game will be updated and re-launched in 2006. For more information on Sylien Entertainment and their other products, see http://www.sylien.com.
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