Billing and commerce services

How do you maximize the revenue potential from your online property? Managing a billing system or a virtual market for thousands, even millions, of online participants is no simple feat, but critical to your project’s return on investment. IBM and IBM Business Partners can help online game and interactive entertainment companies reduce billing complexity and cost, and improve in-game economies – essential for profitably turning playtime into cold, hard cash.

IBM Business Partner Aria Systems provides on-demand billing and customer management solutions. The solution integrates a sophisticated billing engine with customer support and marketing tools in a single, highly configurable application – which enables clients to “get customers, get paid, and get control.”

IBM Business Partner PlaySpan™ is game industry's first publisher-sponsored™ in-game commerce™ network. PlaySpan's in-game search, commerce and micropayment technologies enable game publishers and developers to generate new revenues, acquire new users and extend the loyalty of existing users.