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Telcordia Buys Granite Sytems
June 3, 2004
(From the Granite Systems release)
Atlanta, GA - June 3, 2003 - Telcordia Technologies, the world's largest provider of Operations Support Systems (OSS), and Granite Systems, a leading provider of Service Resource Management
(SRM) software solutions, today announced a relationship which couples the Telcordia next-generation OSS portfolio with Granite's inventory solution - the Xng® System. This agreement offers Granite
customers the opportunity to seamlessly integrate Granite's inventory module as an alternative to Telcordia's inventory with the Telcordia activation, fault and performance modules. Service providers
with Granite Inventory would be able to have network elements and connections activated through Telcordia's activation solution, as well as have Telcordia's fault and performance monitoring solutions
use Granite as the inventory database of record.
This partnership demonstrates Telcordia's commitment to an open systems approach with other leading vendors, combining complimentary technologies and expertise to provide new solutions to
the most critical problems facing service providers. Together, Telcordia and Granite offer a unique ability for Granite customers to improve customer service delivery times and reduce repair time across
multiple network layers and technologies, hence lowering operating costs.
"The leading Tier 1 service providers around the world are putting great emphasis on improving inventory accuracy and use of a new generation of commercial inventory applications as a basis
for improved operations efficiency. Integration of Granite's Xng inventory management system with Telcordia's broad OSS product portfolio means more and better solutions for large wireline and wireless
service providers," said Larry Goldman, RHK's OSS Program Director.
"Telcordia's expertise in automated provisioning and activation and leadership in scalable operations support systems, will enable us to reach new levels with solutions that eliminate time
consuming and costly manual tasks," said Jay Borden, President & CEO, Granite. "This translates to increased ROI for our customers."
"By working with Granite, Telcordia provides exceptional activation and assurance capabilities complementing Granite's inventory system thus permitting their customers to rapidly reduce
time to market for new services by rapidly activating these services and improving service reliability, " said Ragui Kamel, Group President, New Generation Systems, Telcordia. Additionally, the depth
and breadth of the Telcordia network adapters catalog, addressing discovery, configuration, fault and performance for over 90 major network elements, provides significant and immediate value to Granite's
customers operating heterogeneous networks. Through this partnership, Telcordia will continue to expand its global footprint leveraging Granite's success in targeted growth markets.
The joint solution will enable intelligent automation of network inventory, design and service provisioning processes, reducing provisioning times and operations costs by more than 30%
through increased flowthrough. The solution automates the complex tasks associated with creating, activating and assuring service paths across multi-vendor, optical, broadband, IP and mobile networks.
Both Telcordia and Granite are committed to using industry standards to enable ongoing easy integration with other OSS products so customers can extend the value of their existing systems.
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