Telecom Network Inventory TransformationMere network information is not enough

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Solution paper: Tieto Forest Hub © 2018 Tieto Corporation

In any organization, there are several groups that rely on information related to the network to complete their tasks. The telecom network data can be useful to every segment of the service provider’s enterprise. However, it is often not easy to derive this inventory information and requires highly technical knowledge of the different inventory systems.

Network information shared with decision makers needs to be specific and relevant information about a given choice. The information can vary from infrastructure, equipment room space, and current-and-future network, to even the markets, demographics, revenue potential, weather, and many more. It is important that they clearly understand the relationships between various sets of information to analyze situations most effectively.

Tieto’s Telecom Network Inventory Transformation (NI) is an integrated information system enabled by accurate and real-time network inventory information at its core. With Telecom Network Inventory Transformation, providers can transform the different network elements (Core, Access & CPE) into a single inventory system including network as well as IT. It supports physical, logical and service inventory as well as outside plant inventory.

• This helps ensure data integrity and synchronization and consolidation of crucial inventory network and network resource

• Re-engineer business processes by interfacing network inventory

• Cleansing of data before migration to ensure data integrity and maintain checks to ‘keep it clean’

• Automation of critical business processes for reduced provisioning and repair cycle-times

• Inventory solutions that bridge the whole lifecycle from enquiry to billing.

Inventory modernization as a part of the modernization

Decision making based on Network inventory

Solution overview

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Key benefits• NI enables Telcos with a real-time, unified

view of customer, service, and resource inventory, further enabling them to develop and introduce new services more quickly and more cost effectively.

• Through integration with other applications and 3rd party systems, NI plays a vital role in service fulfillment in real time

• Forecasting, planning and designing improvements identified with aid of proper view of existing Inventory also helps in improving the Capacity management process thus cutting significant delay and costs.

• Ease of tracking the ROI from a Network plan & build project, as these projects are managed effectively in NI.

Key features• Consulting (Due Diligence, Process

Re-engineering, Operating Model, functional evaluation of COTS etc.) –

• Due diligence for base lining ‘as-is’, identifying specific pain points and creating a to-be blueprint, implementation roadmap and business case

• Definition of To-be business processes, COTS evaluation, operating model definition/rejig and performance measurement framework

• Technology Introduction/ Enhancements

• Technology solution for network inventory rollout and data integration

• Outsourcing/Operations

• Strategic global sourcing to improve TCO

• Business Process outsourcing of network inventory cleanse

Ready

Consulting phase 1 Analysis of current inventory and as-is state mapping

Steady

Consulting phase 2 Drafting a target state with Interim Change management process and roadmap for Inventory Transformation

Go

Consulting phase 3 Implementation and Delivery of NI Transformation with Integration of Service Fulfillment, Assurance and Billing platforms

Delivery Model

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Solution paper: Tieto Forest Hub © 2018 Tieto Corporation

Success Story Customer: One of the largest Finnish ICT provider Challenge:

• Transforming the Service Delivery and Service Assurance processes to reduce wastage of resources, integrate platforms and build efficient services around legacy environment without heavily investing in changing of OSS and Network Inventory Platforms.

• Delivery and Assurance were not in sync and created lot of silos for the process.

• Several tools and substantial manpower required for discovery of issues and RCA. The delays and issues in turn had an adverse effect on the key KPIs and Customer Experience Management scores.

How Tieto helped:

• Provided Service Delivery and Assurance Transformation along with Network Inventory Data Consolidation.

• Used the Brownfield Transformation with three-pronged approach; Improve and collaborate Network Inventory data, integrate applications and tools along with legacy tools, and remove duplication and optimize model to provide intelligent analytics.

• Provided data consolidation with GUI and schema-less graph DB.

What Customer Achieved:

• Significant reduction of operational costs with a consolidated Network inventory that would be used by SD and SA processes.

• It enabled the customer to gain high degree of visibility and seamless transformation of fragmented NI databases into consolidated Network Inventory management tool.

About Customer:

• Large Finnish ICT Provider\

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Solution paper: Tieto Forest Hub © 2018 Tieto Corporation

Want to know more?

Ulvang Claes Director, ICS TME

Telephone: +46 (70) 3145296 E-mail: claes.ulvang@tieto.com www.tieto.com

1 32 4 5Needs & Impact Assessment

Vendor SelectionBusiness Case Define Blueprint & Implementation Roadmap

Implementation & Benefit Realization

Strategy definition including evaluation of current pain points, needs, goals & drivers

Request proposals from potential vendors to gather information on products / services

Review solutions available in the market & vendor matrix to learn about the key vendors in the NI space & functionalities offered

Develop NI Solution blueprint & implementation roadmap along with robust change/ communication plan to roll-out the initiative across the organization

Set up program governance and Transformation management office (TMO)

Assess & baseline organization’s ‘as-is’ NI maturity

After receiving RFPs from potential vendors, schedule product / service demos/Proof of Concept (PoC) with 3-4 vendors to get detailed view of their solutions

Follow phased implementation and integration roadmapEvaluate high level

organization impact on people, process and systems

Make a business case for change

Shortlist vendor / product and negotiate the contract

Define evaluation criteria

Define detailed business requirements

How to get started• Agree on Tieto and Telco Single Point of Contact (SPOC), going forward into execution

• Agree and ring fence the objectives and scope of Network Inventory improvements and due diligence required to understand ‘as-is’ state of operations

• Prioritization of “bigger” tickets items for improvement

• Support for preparation of the stakeholder meeting, floor walks, discovery etc.

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