Ontology Wins Neotel Deal

LONDON, and JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Today, at TM Forum Management World Africa, Ontology Systems announce that Neotel, South Africa's first converged telecommunications network operator, has chosen Ontology Systems' OSS/CAD to dynamically join, align and present customer, service, and infrastructure data from existingIT systems to allow Neotel to lower OPEX and speed migrations through a fully integrated service view.

Neotel has experienced rapid growth and continues to innovate by offering new services to its corporate customers. OSS/CAD's groundbreaking use of semantics technology for bottom-up unification with a disruptively fast delivery model was chosen to maintain alignment across Neotel's rapidly evolving infrastructure. OSS/CAD will initially be used to support IT staff, monitor data quality, and speed complex IT migrations.

Langa Dube, Neotel's Executive Head of IT, commented: "During vendor selection OSS/CAD unified real data from our systems in less than 3 weeks, demonstrating 360° customer service views, and views for service management, revenue assurance and data quality monitoring. Ontology is unique in this space."

Neotel (Pty) Ltd.