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PRODUCT NEWS
Sigma Systems updates Order Management product
Sigma Systems has announced that the
latest release of its Sigma Order
Management software application is now
generally available.
Sigma Order Management has been
designed to seamlessly work with and be
driven by a completely externalised
enterprise catalogue. Sigma Order
Management’s approach to using the
catalogue to drive order decomposition
and validation and to dynamically derive
orchestration strategies for order fulfilment
greatly reduces order fall-out and time-tomarket
for both new product and service
launches and order delivery, the company
claims.
The latest release adds functionality that
continues to make the system a key tool
for emerging digital service providers.
“The latest version of Sigma Order
Management capitalises on the platform’s
innate awareness of the enterprise’s
portfolio and the broader BSS/OSS
ecosystem,” said Catherine Michel, the
chief strategy officer and
vice president of products
at Sigma Systems. “Our
customers look to Sigma
for advanced product
innovation across our
portfolio to solve their
critical business challenges
– Sigma Order
Management certainly
delivers on that
expectation.”
Catherine Michel:
Latest version
delivers on
customer
expectations
Oracle Communications simplifies design and delivery of network
services to support NFV and business agility
Doug Suriano:
Release accelerates
design agility and
provides support for
the latest network
technologies
Oracle Communications
has released a new
version of its operational
support system (OSS)
suite to help CSPs rapidly
and agilely design services
spanning physical and
virtual networks. The suite
is also designed to help
streamline the operational
delivery of customer
orders – including highgrowth
B2B and
wholesale orders –
enabling CSPs to
capitalise on the opportunities of a network
function virtualisation (NFV)-driven
communications world.
With the upgraded OSS suite, Oracle
Communications continues its focus on
simplifying and automating the service
design and order fulfilment process,
regardless of order size and complexity, or
the type of network on which it is delivered.
“As CSPs continue to standardise and
virtualise their networks, agility in service
design and automation in service delivery
have become major focus areas – which is
putting a spotlight on OSS to rapidly
launch and efficiently deliver innovative
services on an increasingly dynamic
network,” said Doug Suriano, the senior
vice president and general manager at
Oracle Communications. “This release of
the Oracle Communications OSS suite
accelerates design agility, provides support
for the latest network technologies, and
further simplifies network-based B2B
service delivery in practice, supporting our
commitment to delivering innovative OSS
solutions in an increasingly virtualised
communications world.”
NEWS IN BRIEF
Mahindra Comviva unveils
Smart Policy Controller 5.0
Mahindra Comviva has introduced its latest
version of the Smart Policy Controller version
5.0 to help CSPs reduce the capex/opex
requirements for managing data traffic and
significantly increase the ROI.
The new version is capable of handling over
100 million subscribers on a single server
and supports convergent data plans. Single
subscriber identification will allow
subscribers to have one data plan that can
be used across multiple networks such as
3G, LTE, Wi-Fi, fixed broadband and Wi-
MAX regardless of the number of devices.
Zunder Lekshmanan, the head of messaging
and broadband solutions at Mahindra
Comviva said: “As CSPs are offering multi
network services, there is a surge in demand
for flexibility and scalability of policy control
function to meet the dynamic and evolving
needs from growth in data traffic. Our new
Smart Policy Controller version is created
keeping in mind the business needs, offering
differentiated and contextual services with
the best in class user experience.”
Comptel launches
Monetizer product
Comptel has announced Monetizer, a
business policy and charging toolset to
enable digital and communications service
providers (CSPs) to innovate and design rich
service offers instantly. With Monetizer, CSPs
can create, configure, launch and modify
dynamic, contextual packages – and profit
from consumers’ data usage.
“Customers love what they can do with their
data services, and they will continue to
consume more of them, so long as CSPs
can create options and provide them
rapidly,” said Kari Onniselka, the executive
vice president of Intelligent Data at Comptel.
“Monetizer enables just this. With it, digital
and communications service providers can
quickly cut product development and design
time, and rapidly roll out myriad different
service and monetisation options, including
shared accounts, Over-the-top (OTT)
content bundles, sponsored services,
roaming data packages and time-based
app access, to meet consumers’ unique
requirements and efficiently generate
revenue.”
6 VANILLAPLUS MAGAZINE I AUGUST / SEPTEMBER 2015