Cramer Scores New Tier 1 Win With KPN Telecom.Business Editors LONDON & THE HAGUE, Netherlands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 25, 2003 Strategic Accord Extends Cramer's Tier 1 Streak, Building Momentum for COTS Inventory Management Solutions with World's Leading Operators Cramer Systems today announced its latest Tier 1 contract award, a three-year agreement, with a multi-million Euro value, to provide the Cramer inventory management solution to KPN KPN Koninklijke PTT Nederland (Royal Dutch Telecom) KPN Konfederacja Polski Niepodleglej (Polish conservative party) Telecom's (AEX AEX See: Amsterdam Exchange : KPN) fixed wireline division. The agreement with KPN Telecom, the leading Netherlands telecom operator, is Cramer's fourth straight Tier 1 win this year, following similar strategic accords with BT, Bell Canada and others, and is Cramer's 18th new customer overall in the last calendar year. Concurrently, Cramer today also announced its first Asiapac customer - JAPAN TELECOM - in association with IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . KPN Telecom will use Cramer to replace legacy inventory systems currently in place for its fixed wireline network, which serves 7.8 million customers nationwide and handles some 40 billion call-minutes per year. With Cramer, KPN Telecom will gain centralized, process-driven management of network assets, achieving significant improvements in cost efficiency and operational performance. Cramer initially will support a large amount of users for KPN Telecom's fixed wireline transmission services and Eurorings, enhancing the operator's ability to plan network facilities, and to provision current dial tone services and future data and IP-based offerings. Among the benefits, KPN Telecom will seek to increase customer satisfaction and profit margins, using Cramer to accelerate the launch of new technologies and services, reduce operational expenditures, and speed problem resolution. As a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) product, Cramer will enable KPN Telecom to realize these and other benefits "out of the box," with minimal to no customization. "Our new, strategic agreement with Cramer elevates Inventory Management to a core application that will drive enterprise-wide performance gains at KPN Telecom," said Eelco Blok, Executive Vice President of Operations for KPN Telecom's fixed wireline division. "Cramer fits our target architecture, meets our requirements across-the-board, and supports a solid return on investment." "Cramer will replace three legacy network systems in the transmission domain. Replacing these mission critical applications with COTS software looked to be a challenge, " said Han Wijns, Senior Vice President of Transmission Network Business Unit. "We have been evaluating many vendors and did significant due diligence Research; analysis; your homework. This term has caught on in all industries, because it sounds so "wired." Who would want to do analysis or research when they can do due diligence. See wired. . Cramer was the only vendor covering all our functional needs, offering the required scalability and the right delivery model to assist KPN implementing the solution." "One by one, the world's Tier 1 operators are shifting from legacy bespoke systems to the simplicity and functionality of Cramer's COTS product," said Cramer CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Jerry Crook. "Whether their focus is fixed wireline, wireless, data/IP or cable service, operators view Cramer as the common denominator of operational efficiency, savings and a sound bottom line." KPN Telecom's fixed wireline division will use a comprehensive suite of Cramer4 modules, including ResourceManager, RouteFinder, TaskEngine, DeliveryEngine and SyncEngine, and intent to use it across an array of technologies and services including SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) The European counterpart to SONET. See SONET. SDH - Synchronous Digital Hierarchy , PDH PDH - Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy , DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing . X.25, Frame Relay, DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary , PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) The worldwide voice telephone network. Once only an analog system, the heart of most telephone networks today is all digital. In the U.S. and IP. Cramer will be integrated with the Micromuse Netcool solution, providing expedited fault management via ultra-reliable data accuracy ensured by Cramer4. About Cramer Systems Cramer Systems, named "Best Overall OSS Oss (ôs), city (1994 pop. 62,141), North Brabant prov., S Netherlands; chartered 1399. It is a significant industrial center. Manufactures include meat products, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical equipment, and metalware. Company" in 2003 by Billing World and OSS Today, is the leading provider of Inventory Management and provisioning automation solutions for the global telecommunications industry. Targeting Tier 1 wireline and wireless operators worldwide, Cramer lowers costs and reduces time to market by automating processes that rely on a detailed knowledge of network inventory, capacity and service configuration information. The Company has over 220 staff at locations worldwide including Bath and London (UK), Washington (US) and Sydney (Australia). For more information on Cramer, strategic partners and Tier 1 customers, visit www.cramer.com. |
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