Valista profile

The Company
Solutions and Services
Customers/Case Studies
Partner Program
Management Team

The Company

Valista provides a complete digital commerce experience through a suite of platforms and managed services, enabling multi-channel payments, settlement and service lifecycle management. We provide a unique range of market solutions accelerating the adoption of digital commerce by allowing service providers to support and offer complex and evolving business models, streamlining processes and offering consumers exciting new ways of interacting with digital content.

Valista understands the requirements of the digital content marketplace enabling competitive advantage in the time-to-market of new services while also enabling services to be tailored and differentiated to target markets, resulting in incremental revenue streams for our customers. We enable mobile, broadband and cable operators, media and entertainment companies to manage the entire digital commerce ecosystem including the on-boarding, provisioning, merchandizing, payments, settlement and customer care of services. We offer a wide range of implementation options, deploying best of breed application software, assisting with analysis, design and integration or delivering a complete managed service.

Key customers include:
Valista’s digital commerce management solutions and services have been proven across the globe in real world implementations by leading innovators such as Cricket, Vodafone, NTT DoCoMo, France Telecom's w-HA, Orange, mBlox and GTECH.

Established in 2003 following the merger of Network365 and iPIN, Valista is a global company with offices in North America, Europe, and Japan. The company is currently processing over 300 million transactions per annum and over 150 million users have access to the Valista solutions suite. Valista is an award winning company having secured the Best Mobile Application Developer Award from the GSM Association on two occasions and was chosen by both Red Herring and Always On/On Hollywood as one of the Top 100 Global Companies. Valista was also chosen as ‘Most Innovative Company’ at the International Business Awards known as ‘The Stevies’.

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Solutions and Services

Valista’s digital commerce management solutions include the following key products, solutions and managed services:

ValistaPlus Operator Payments:
ValistaPlus Operator Payments is the licensed software equivalent of Valista’s industry recognized Operator Payments Service enabling direct-to-bill charging of off-deck mobile content. It provides end-to-end micro- and macro-payment functionalities which span the entire payment lifecycle including transaction acquisition, real-time accounting, authorization, account aggregation and customer care

ValistaPlus 4 Licensed Software Suite
ValistaPlus 4 is Valista’s latest version of licensed software including a suite of modules for payments, merchandizing, and settlement. Built in a modular fashion, users are able to determine which modules best fit their needs

The ValistaPlus 4 modules include:

• Payments
• Settlement
• Subscriptions
• Stored Value
• Bundling
• Discounting
• Loyalty Programs

Valista Managed Services™

Valista’s Operator Payments Service™
Valista’s Operator Payments Service enables both on-deck and off-deck business growth. The off-deck payments service acts as a bridge between external parties and the operator’s billing infrastructure. With such a bridge in place, operators are then able to support controlled billing access, support the full range of access channels and interaction models, provide for proper consumer protection and experience, and scale their off-deck content business in an operationally efficient and profitable manner

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Customers

Valista has been chosen as the vendor of choice by some of the world's leading mobile, broadband operators, media and entertainment companies:

U.S. Cellular

U.S. Cellular, a leading U.S.based provider of wireless services, has selected Valista’s Operator Payments Service to enable its off-deck premium content business. Through Valista’s Operator Payments Service, U.S. Cellular customers will now have greater access to mobile content and be able to fully participate in many interactive activities such as text-in media voting for popular television shows. Valista’s Operator Payments Service supports a wide range of mobile payment options, providing consumers with greater choice in the purchasing process. In addition, the service provides support for post purchase operations such as refunds and credits and allows for end-to-end visibility on of transactions. Valista’s Operator Payments Service acts as a bridge between external aggregators, content providers and U.S. Cellular’s internal infrastructure. It is offered as a managed service, allowing U.S. Cellular to maintain core focus and improve the time to market of their off-deck premium content business. The service utilizes Valista’s industry leading payments technology and its advanced revenue sharing and settlement solution (ValistaPlus™ 4).

www.uscc.com

Cricket Communications

Cricket Communications, Inc, a leading U.S. based provider of unlimited wireless services, has selected Valista’s next generation Operator Payments Service to enable its off-deck mobile content business. Valista’s payments service ensures that consumers are aware of exactly what they are paying for when purchasing content off-deck (from a third-party). The service includes real-time authentication and authorization, which prevents unsolicited charging and provides robust transaction management, high throughput support and superior partner settlement. Valista’s Operator Payments Service acts as a bridge between external aggregators, content providers and Cricket’s internal billing infrastructure. The service utilizes Valista’s industry leading payments technology and its advanced revenue sharing and settlement solution.

www.mycricket.com

NTT DoCoMo

Valista’s payments technology, has been chosen by NTT DoCoMo to enable i-mode users to enjoy mobile shopping including physical goods purchases using multiple payment options. An account aggregation feature also enables users to check the balances of their various financial accounts with banks and credit card companies simultaneously, on a single screen, eliminating the need to access and view each account separately.

www.nttdocomo.com

Vodafone

Vodafone UK, part of the world's largest mobile community, has selected Valista to provide a payment platform for its Vodafone m-pay™ bill service. Valista enables Vodafone UK subscribers to make online purchases safely and securely over the Internet, WAP or 3G, adding the charge to their monthly bill or using a credit card.

www.vodafone.com

France Telecom

France Telecom deployed Valista’s payments technology via w-HA, a wholly owned and operated subsidiary of France Telecom. The network quickly gained traction and now is a completely interoperable payments network with over 1500 merchants and a significant subscriber base. w-HA is currently processing over 1 million transactions per day at peak times. Other mobile operators and Internet Service Providers utilizing the Valista solution through w-HA include: Orange, Mobistar Belgium, Wanadoo, Tiscali (Alice), T-Online, AOL, Neuf Cegetel and France Telecom Fixed.

www.francetelecom.com

Orange

Orange Group UK and France, a subsidiary of the France Telecom group covering all its mobile telephone activities, uses the w-HA network, which is powered by Valista’s payments technology, to sell enhanced content and services to customer using prepaid and postpaid accounts as well as credit cards. Orange created a digital content and services shopping mall experience which is off-portal, called Gallery, which enables a variety of third party providers to offer goods and services via a WAP, Web, MMS-based interface and supports a variety of payment methods including direct-to-bill charging.

www.orange.com

mBlox

mBlox, the world's largest mobile transaction network, has deployed Valista’s end-to-end transaction engine to support its next generation mobile billing services, including WAP billing. Valista’s payments technology enables mBlox to adapt to the ever-changing dynamics of the global payments market by offering more flexible payment choices such as direct-to-bill charging.

www.mblox.com   

GTECH

The world's leading lottery-transaction processor, deployed Valista’s technology to provide a convenient and mobile alternative for playing lottery games, using any mobile device. Players can pick their numbers, pay for their ticket and submit their numbers to the lottery using any mobile device. The platform also allows players to receive notifications on their mobile device of winning results and whether they hold a winning ticket.

www.gtech.com   

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Valista unity Partner Program

Valista is committed to expanding its Sales, Marketing and Support teams in partnership with a channel network of systems integrators, resellers, OEMs and independent software development partners.

Valista is concentrating on developing core digital commerce applications based on its award winning merchandizing, payments and settlement platform – ValistaPlus 4. This platform provides an excellent base for complimentary applications that add value to customers. To maximize the functionality available on its digital commerce platform, Valista Unity allows partners to develop new applications on top. This brings together a best of breed approach to application development and extends customer choice.

Key partners include:
Alcatel-Lucent, Accenture, Capgemini, Convergys, Ericsson, eServ, HP, IBM, Sun, Vignette.

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Management Team

Valista has a wealth of experience in developing payments, settlement and merchandizing solutions and services and has leveraged this extensive experience with leading mobile, broadband, cable operators, media and entertainment companies worldwide to ensure the Valista solutions and services meet the requirements of customers anywhere in the world. Our global reach and global experience are proving invaluable to our customers. Our management team has a commitment to service quality and excellence that ensures our customers always come first.

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