Telecom Italia Sparkle Deploys Telcordia Software; Telcordia Negotiator, Telcordia Expediter Bring New Level of Service to Telecom Italia Sparkle Customers

Business Wire, Sept 21, 2004

VENICE, Italy -- Telcordia Technologies, Inc., a global provider of telecommunications software and services, today announced that Telecom Italia Sparkle and Datamat S.p.A have selected Telcordia(R) Negotiator and Telcordia(R) Expediter software products to accelerate order processing and speed new services to customers thereby helping increase revenue and profitability at Telecom Italia Sparkle.

Telcordia Negotiator and Telcordia Expediter are part of a new order automation platform offered by Telcordia that is powered by Telcordia's partner ConceptWave and provided through Datamat - an Italy-based system integrator and preferred partner of Telecom Italia Sparkle. Both Telcordia Negotiator and Telcordia Expediter provide a fully scalable, open architecture that facilitates orders and billing across services.

Telecom Italia Sparkle, headquartered in Rome, Italy, has a worldwide commercial presence for the provision of best cost, best performance services to the main players in the international telecommunication world including fixed and mobile operators, ISPs and, in synergy with Telecom Italia, multinational companies. The organization operates a multi-national network for many of its customers and also provides carrier-to-carrier networking.

"A number of Telecom Italia Sparkle's customers require complex, customized services. Telcordia and Datamat's solution provides scalable, open software that could work with a customer's existing system to handle complete flowthrough from order negotiation to provisioning," said Stefano Orlandini, Telco Division Director, Datamat. "Together with Telecom Italia Sparkle we selected Telcordia as the preferred supplier following a market analysis and intensive trial in October 2003, during which Telcordia proved its ability to exceed our expectations.

"The implementation of Telcordia software at Telecom Italia Sparkle will help them further embrace a customer- and service-centric perspective, rapidly seize new revenue opportunities and respond to challenging business conditions," said Mike Henderson, Group President, New Generation Systems, Telcordia Technologies. "As part of Telcordia's Elementive Portfolio, Telcordia Negotiator and Telcordia Expediter are the latest examples of how Telcordia's new, open, flexible and easily configurable product portfolio is helping carriers enhance network productivity and customer satisfaction, using a standards-based approach.

"This customer win is also part of Telcordia's Partner Program - in which Datamat joined as reference partner in Italy for Telecom Italia Group activities - using a structured process for selecting, managing and growing relationships into flourishing sources of revenue and influence in the marketplace," Henderson added.

For more information about Telcordia's Elementive strategy, visit www.telcordia.com.

About Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

Telcordia Technologies, Inc. is a leading global provider of telecommunications software and services for IP, wireline, wireless and cable. By delivering on its Elementive strategy of providing flexible, standards-based solutions that optimize complex network and business support systems, Telcordia enables customers to aggressively reduce costs and grow revenues. Telcordia, a subsidiary of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), is headquartered in Piscataway, NJ, with offices throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Central and Latin America. (www.telcordia.com)

About Datamat

Datamat is a key player in the Information & Communication Technology sector in Italy. It is specialized in the development and supply of ICT solutions and services for Bank, Finance, Insurance, Defense, Space, Telecommunications, Media, Utilities, Public Administration and Healthcare.

Datamat consolidated financial statements for the year 2003 show a production value increasing by 13% at 184 million euro and a significant improvement of results at all levels. FY03 closes with a positive bottom line and a backlog worth 172 euro million. The group counts about 1,750 highly skilled professionals, of which 1,550 employees, distributed in various operative offices. As from October 2000, Datamat is listed on the New Market (index DAM.MI.). www.datamat.it

About Telecom Italia Sparkle

Telecom Italia Sparkle S.p.A., a wholly owned subsidiary of Telecom Italia S.p.A., is a full service provider offering a complete range of international wholesale solutions including voice services, IP, bandwidth and managed data services for fixed-line and mobile operators, ISP's and, in synergy with Telecom Italia, also retail services for multinational corporations. The company runs a proprietary, advanced and global reaching international network with three regional systems deployed in Europe, the Mediterranean basin and Latin America, and counts on a worldwide commercial presence in order to provide top performance, best cost international services to the main telecommunication players around the world.

www.tisparkle.it

Telcordia Technologies is a wholly owned subsidiary of SAIC. Statements in this announcement other than historical data and information constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause our actual results, performance, achievements or industry results to be very different from the results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Some of these factors include, but are not limited to, the risk factors set forth in SAIC's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended January 31, 2003, and such other filings that the Company makes with the SEC from time to time. Due to such uncertainties and risks, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof.