Amdocs and SeaChange Partner to Help Service Providers Introduce and Monetize Multi-Screen TV Services

Amdocs and SeaChange Partner to Help Service Providers Introduce and Monetize Multi-Screen TV Services

Collaboration to speed delivery of personalized video-on-demand and advertising to TV set-tops, PCs and mobile devices for a compelling customer experience

WASHINGTON, June 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- At The Cable Show 2013, Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), the leading provider of customer experience systems and services, and SeaChange International (NASDAQ: SEAC), a leading global multi-screen video software innovator, announced their partnership to offer service providers, globally, the first holistic solution for establishing multi-screen TV operations. Combining SeaChange and Amdocs software and services, the solution covers the deployment of video streaming capabilities, through the management of the associated customer experience, to monetization of these services.

Service providers will be able to leverage Amdocs' systems integration and testing services' best practices, based on its experience working with several of the world's largest cable, satellite and multi-play service providers, to speed deployment of SeaChange software. As a result, more service providers will be able to introduce next generation video services, such as personalized, multi-screen video and targeted advertising. Service providers will also be able to expand their deployment with market-leading network control and business and operational support systems (BSS and OSS) from the Amdocs CES product portfolio to ensure a superior multi-play experience and best monetize their video assets.

"Service providers are looking to move into the pay TV space or enhance existing TV operations with multi-screen capabilities to address surging demand for video content over any device," said Norm Bogen, vice president of global research, Multimedia Research Group. "Deployments in the market are gaining steam but integration of these new capabilities into the service provider's complex systems environment can slow the momentum. The Amdocs SeaChange partnership brings together two strong brands to help service providers move forward more quickly."

"Having deployed next generation pay TV capabilities, service providers still need to integrate them into a BSS and OSS environment that offers convergent support for multi-play operations if they are to stand out from the competition in terms of their ability to bundle and personalize services and plan and monetize resources," said Rebecca Prudhomme, vice president of product and solutions marketing, Amdocs. "Amdocs' partnership with SeaChange introduces a solution that allows service providers to achieve this, cost-efficiently."

"For service providers, tablet viewing is becoming table stakes, supported by the breadwinner, advertising, as consumption of video-on-demand services at the home or on the move continues to rise dramatically," said Alan Hoff, vice president, Strategic Marketing, SeaChange. "Together, SeaChange and Amdocs will help service providers better compete for viewers with high value, multi-screen services, targeted advertising and a highly compelling customer experience."

The Amdocs SeaChange partnership was signed under the Amdocs Enreach program. Led by the Amdocs CTO office, the program is designed to deliver more value to Amdocs' customers around the world by harnessing innovation from partner companies in combination with the Amdocs CES product portfolio. The innovative SeaChange software helps service providers create multi-screen, video-on-demand and advertising revenue streams with modular, open software which provides a pipeline from content intake and management at the service provider's operation through personalized presentation and streaming to any device subscribers choose.

For more information and demonstrations, visit booths 1523 (Amdocs) and 3509 (SeaChange) at The Cable Show.

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About SeaChange International
Ranked among the top 250 software companies in the world, SeaChange International (NASDAQ: SEAC) enables transformative multi-screen video services through an open, cloud-based, intelligent software platform trusted by cable, IPTV and mobile operators globally. Personalized and fully monetized video experiences anytime on any device, in the home and everywhere, are the product of the Company's superior video platform, advertising and in-home offerings.

SeaChange's hundreds of customers are many of the world's most powerful media brands including all major cable operators in the Americas and Europe, and the largest telecom companies in the world. Headquartered in Acton, Massachusetts, SeaChange is TL 9000 certified and has product development, support and sales offices around the world. Visit www.schange.com.

About Amdocs
For more than 30 years, Amdocs has ensured service providers' success and embraced their biggest challenges. To win in the connected world, service providers rely on Amdocs to simplify the customer experience, harness the data explosion, stay ahead with new services and improve operational efficiency. The global company uniquely combines a market-leading BSS, OSS and network control product portfolio with value-driven professional services and managed services operations. With revenue of $3.2 billion in fiscal 2012, Amdocs and its 20,000 employees serve customers in more than 60 countries.

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For more information, visit Amdocs at www.amdocs.com

Amdocs' Forward-Looking Statement

This press release includes information that constitutes forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about Amdocs' growth and business results in future quarters. Although we believe the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be obtained or that any deviations will not be material. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause future results to differ from those anticipated. These risks include, but are not limited to, the effects of general economic conditions, Amdocs' ability to grow in the business markets that it serves, Amdocs' ability to successfully integrate acquired businesses, adverse effects of market competition, rapid technological shifts that may render the Company's products and services obsolete, potential loss of a major customer, our ability to develop long-term relationships with our customers, and risks associated with operating businesses in the international market. Amdocs may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future; however, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These and other risks are discussed at greater length in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2012 filed on December 11, 2012 and our quarterly 6-K filed forms furnished on February 12 and May 16, 2013.

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CONTACT: Amdocs, Sara Preto, Fusion PR for Amdocs, Tel: +1-212-651-4214, E-Mail: sara.preto@fusionpr.com, SeaChange, Jim Sheehan, SeaChange PR, Tel: +1-978-889-3064, E-Mail: jim.sheehan@schange.com

Web Site: http://www.amdocs.com


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