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Portal Software was founded in 1985 as Portal Information Network, one of the first ISPs
Internet service provider

An Internet service provider is a company that offers its customers access to the Internet. The ISP connects to its customers using a data transmission technology appropriate for delivering Internet Protocol datagrams, such as dial-up, DSL, cable modem or dedicated high-speed interconnects....
 in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was founded by John Little. The company offered its own interface through modem access that featured Internet email. Towards the end of the 1980s, the company offered FTP.

During this time, the company developed its own account management software. In 1992, John Little decided to focus on developing Portal's internal software for other ISPs, which he saw as a fast evolving market.






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Portal Software was founded in 1985 as Portal Information Network, one of the first ISPs
Internet service provider

An Internet service provider is a company that offers its customers access to the Internet. The ISP connects to its customers using a data transmission technology appropriate for delivering Internet Protocol datagrams, such as dial-up, DSL, cable modem or dedicated high-speed interconnects....
 in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was founded by John Little. The company offered its own interface through modem access that featured Internet email. Towards the end of the 1980s, the company offered FTP.

During this time, the company developed its own account management software. In 1992, John Little decided to focus on developing Portal's internal software for other ISPs, which he saw as a fast evolving market. Their ISP business was shut down and the accounts sold to Sprint. The company was renamed Portal Software in 1993 and Dave Labuda joined the new company as co-founder. Little and Labuda developed a scalable and flexible real-time enterprise software architecture, which they applied to the management of customers and revenue for internet and telecom service providers.

Portal Software developed a billing
Invoice

An invoice or bill is a Commerce document issued by a sales to the buyer, indicating the product s, quantities, and agreed prices for products or Service s the seller has provided the buyer....
 and revenue
Telecommunications rating

In telecommunications rating is the activity of determining the cost of a particular call. The rating process involves converting call-related data into a monetary-equivalent value....
 software suite (Portal Infranet) primarily targeted at telecommunications companies and ISPs. It was one of the largest companies in its business. Customers of Portal Software included PSINet
PSINet

PSINet was one of the first internet service providers , based in Northern Virginia, and a major player in the commercialization of the Internet until the company's bankruptcy in 2001 during the dot-com bubble and acquisition by Cogent Communications in 2002....
, AOL Time Warner
Time Warner

Time Warner Inc. is the world's third largest media and entertainment Conglomerate by market capitalization , headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City....
, China Mobile
China Mobile

China Mobile Communications Corporation , also known as China Mobile or CMCC, is the largest mobile phone operator in China. It is the List of mobile network operators mobile phone operator ranked by number of subscribers, with 415 million customers ....
, Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom

Deutsche Telekom Aktiengesellschaft is a telecommunications company headquartered in Bonn, Germany. It is the largest telecommunications company in Germany and in the European Union....
, France Télécom
France Télécom

France T?l?com is the main telecommunication company in France and one of the largest in the world. It currently employs about 191,000 people and has nearly 159 million customers worldwide ....
, iG Brazil, KPN
KPN

KPN is a Netherlands fixed-line and mobile telecommunications company, including both 2G and 3G mobile operations. The company is based in The Hague....
, Orange UK
Orange SA

Orange is the brand used by France T?l?com for its mobile network operator and Internet service provider subsidiaries. The brand was created in 1994 for Hutchison Telecommunications International Limited's UK mobile phone network, which was acquired by France T?l?com in August 2000....
, Reuters
Reuters

Reuters Group Limited is a United_Kingdom-based, Canadian controlled news agency and former financial market data provider that provides reports from around the world to newspapers and broadcasters....
, SIRIUS Satellite Radio
Sirius Satellite Radio

Sirius Satellite Radio is a satellite radio service operating in the United States and Canada, owned by Sirius XM Radio. Headquartered in New York City, with smaller studios in Los Angeles and Memphis, Tennessee, Sirius was officially launched on July 1, 2002 and currently provides 69 streams of music and 65 streams of sports, news and ente...
, Sprint Canada, Telefónica
Telefónica

Telef?nica, S.A., is a Spain Telephone company. Operating globally, it is one of the largest fixed-line and mobile telecommunications companies in the world: List of mobile network operators in terms of number of clients only behind China Mobile and Vodafone, and in the top five in market value....
, Telenor
Telenor

Telenor is the incumbent telecommunications company in Norway, with headquarters located at Fornebu, close to Oslo. Today, Telenor is mostly an international Wireless communication carrier with operations in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Asia....
, Telstra
Telstra

Telstra or Telstra Corporation Ltd , is an Australian telecommunications and Electronic media company, formerly Public ownership by the Australian government....
, TIM
Telecom Italia Mobile

TIM is Telecom Italia's mobile phone brand, and runs a GSM, Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution, UMTS and HSDPA network in Italy and Brazil....
, U.S. Cellular, Vodafone
Vodafone

Vodafone is a mobile network operator with its headquarters in Newbury, Berkshire, Berkshire, England, UK. It is the largest mobile telecommunications network company in the world by turnover and has a market value of about ?75 billion ....
 and XM Satellite Radio
XM Satellite Radio

XM Satellite Radio is one of two satellite radio services in the United States and Canada, operated by Sirius XM Radio. It provides pay-for-service radio, analogous to cable television....
. In order to address the telecommunications market, Portal software acquired the InteGrate
InteGrate

InteGrate is a pipe-lined high performance architecture for handling batch rating of telecommunications CDRs .Solution 42, originally based in Quickborn, Germany, was purchased by Portal Software with an aim to preparing the Infranet IP real-time IP billing software platform for entry into the telecommunications market....
 software from Solution42, a German company which had a history in high-performance telecommunications Rating
Rating

In general, a rating is the evaluation or assessment of something, in terms of quality , quantity , or some combination of both. Specifically, it may refer to:...
. This allowed a realistic performance of rating telephony usage events, something that was not feasible with the 'real-time' rating engine they had developed in-house.

Portal Software was bought by Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation specializes in developing and marketing enterprise software products ? particularly database management systems. Through organic growth and a number of high-profile acquisitions, Oracle enlarged its share of the software market....
 in 2006 for an estimated $220 Million. Portal Software, together with Metasolv software, is now a business unit of Oracle. Like other acquisition software, Portal Software will be integrated with the core products of Oracle such as Siebel (CRM), PeopleSoft
PeopleSoft

PeopleSoft, Inc. was a company that provided Human resource management systems , customer relationship management, Manufacturing, Financials, Enterprise Performance Management, and Student Administration software solutions to large corporations, governments, and organizations....
 (ERP/CRM), JD Edwards (ERP).

With version 7.3, the first since Oracle's acquisition, it has been renamed as "Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management", although in practice, the users still refer to it as the shorter name of "Portal".

The former SVP of Sales, Services, Support, Marketing, Alliances, Business Development, Investor Relations, and Strategic Customer Relationships - Bhaskar Gorti, continues to serve as the GM of Oracle's Communications Group.

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