Abacus is a leading global provider of billing produc ts and managed services for the telecommunications, utilities and retail sectors. It is a private company established in 1996 and supp orted by venture capital funding by Royal Bank of Scotland. Abacus has secu red customers and partners hips throughout Europe, Asia Pacific, and North and South America and h as over ten years experience delivering end-to-end, fully web-enabled services and software solutions that make billing cost-effective and less time intensive. Abacus solutions enable its broad range of customer s, from multi-national telecoms carriers to smaller independent operators and utilities companies, to co ncentrate resources on their core business activities.