• Integrated BSS and OSS provide comprehensive and complete solutions for telecoms to leverage data and GenAI for faster time to market and new digital customer experiences

Toronto, Canada – Optiva Inc. (TSX: OPT), a leader in powering the telecom industry with cloud-native billing, charging and revenue management software on private and public clouds, today announced a strategic go-to-market partnership with GDi, a digital technology company with a complete portfolio for network planning, design and rollout. The partnership will provide communication service providers (CSPs) with pre-integrated and tested BSS and OSS software. As the telecom industry embraces GenAI opportunities, unifying and integrating billing and charging customer data with network management and operations support data has never been more critical.

Optiva and GDi bring decades of telecom industry experience to customers across the globe, working closely with large network operators, MVNOs and new market entrants. The partnership will enable rapid time to market for innovative new services for joint clients and optimize the upgrade and modernization of legacy BSS and OSS systems to meet customer expectations and improve operational efficiencies.

Together, Optiva and GDi provide development frameworks, the ability to integrate with existing systems and third-party applications, pre-built connectors, TM Forum Open APIs and standardized protocols. This will facilitate seamless data exchange and interoperability while fully complying with industry regulations and data security standards.

"GDi and Optiva are joining forces to bring CSPs best-of-breed comprehensive OSS/BSS solutions and implement IT support systems faster and more efficiently with all needed functionalities. The collaboration opens doors for many future joint projects, further enhancing the range of solutions available to CSPs. This partnership is driven by a shared commitment to innovation and customer success in the telecommunications industry," said Dominik Periskic, Executive Director of Product Management & Marketing of GDi.

"Optiva is proud to partner with GDi and offer our customers the maximum value of integrated and tested modern BSS and OSS software. It has never been more important to launch, operate and scale in the most efficient and customer-centric manner, and our partnership empowers our customers to achieve those goals," said Michele Campriani, CRO of Optiva.