Visionael Appoints Poonacha Machaiah VP/GM to Lead Service Provider Business.Business Editors/High Tech Writers PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 12, 2002 Former Nortel Executive to Drive Service Provider Strategy and Execution for Leading NRM NRM Natural Resources Management NRM National Railway Museum (UK) NRM Norman Rockwell Museum (Stockbridge, Massachusetts) NRM National Resistance Movement (Uganda) Company Visionael(R) Corporation, a leading provider of service creation and inventory-based network resource management (NRM) software solutions, today announced that Poonacha Machaiah has joined the company as vice president and general manager of its Service Provider business. This appointment underscores Visionael's commitment to the service provider market and strengthens its leadership in delivering Operations Support System (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. ) solutions that optimize productivity, revenues, margins, customer retention, and time-to-profit. Machaiah will be responsible for developing Visionael's service provider strategy and driving the adoption of NRM and service creation platforms within the OSS, including ServiceBase(TM), the industry's first open service creation platform for the automated provisioning The ability to set up new communications services for customers automatically. Carriers use automated provisioning to set up their network based on customers' requirements. Such systems control all network devices from a central console and greatly speed up deployment time from days to of broadband premium Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. (IP) services. He will lead efforts to elevate the company's visibility and increase customer demand by creating strategies and products that transform the economics of creating, managing and delivering network services, allowing service providers to accelerate revenue generation and enhance operational efficiencies. "Poonacha will be an integral player in rapidly promoting Visionael's leadership as a best-in-class OSS solutions provider," said Marc Jones, president and 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. of Visionael. "His extensive knowledge and hands-on experience with Tier 1 service providers will allow us to increase our presence in this market and help us demonstrate the value of Visionael to service providers as they strive to remain profitable and competitive in today's dynamic environment." Machaiah brings extensive telecommunications, networking and Internet industry experience in managing and marketing network-centric products and services. He joins Visionael from Nortel Networks where he was vice president of Global Professional Services, responsible for leading the Business Enabling Solutions division of more than 200 professionals. In this role, Machaiah was instrumental in creating Nortel's Service Strategy Framework, which provided consulting, business process integration, operations, engineering and deployment solutions for Nortel's OSS customers. Previously, Machaiah was the principal at Dimension Enterprises, an engineering and business strategy consulting firm that was acquired by Nortel in 1999. In addition, he led the implementation of some of the world's largest data center initiatives with companies such as Intel and 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) . Machaiah has also held numerous management positions at Iridium iridium (ĭrĭd`ēəm), metallic chemical element; symbol Ir; at. no. 77; at. wt. 192.22; m.p. about 2,410°C;; b.p. about 4,130°C;; sp. gr. 22.55 at 20°C;; valence +3 or +4. , Thomson Technology Services Group and Sprint. Machaiah earned a bachelor of engineering Bachelor of Engineering (commonly abbreviated as BE or BEng) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded to a student after three to five years of studying engineering at an accredited university in Australia, Canada, China, Finland, Germany, India, Ireland, Korea, degree in computer science from Bangalore University, India. "I am excited to join a company that is a clear innovator in delivering technologies that give service providers the power to offer high-demand, high-margin services at lower provisioning costs," said Machaiah. "Visionael has established an impressive roster of leading customers and partners, and I look forward to leveraging my experience to help the company accelerate its penetration into the service provider market." About Visionael Headquartered in Palo Alto, California “Palo Alto” redirects here. For other uses, see Palo Alto (disambiguation). Palo Alto (IPA: /ˌpæloʊˈʔæltoʊ/, from Spanish: palo: "stick" and alto: "high", i.e. , Visionael is a leading provider of service creation and inventory-based network resource management (NRM) software solutions. As a key component of any operations support system (OSS), Visionael transforms the economics of creating, managing, and delivering network services. Visionael solutions enable service providers to rapidly and cost-effectively deliver high-demand IP services to their customers and provide enterprises a platform to design and deploy complex, geographically-distributed networks. Visionael customers include AT&T, Cable & Wireless, Fidelity, IBM Global Services IBM Global Services is the world's largest business and technology services provider. It is the fastest growing part of IBM, with over 190,000 professionals serving customers in more than 160 countries. , Kaptech, Ionex, Telseon, Verizon, and 360 Networks. For more about Visionael, please visit www.visionael.com or call 650.470.8920. In Europe, Visionael SARL SARL South African Radio League SARL Société Anonyme à Responsabilité Limitée (French: limited liability company) SARL Salem Animal Rescue League (Salem, NH) SARL Sociedade Anónima de Responsabilidade Limitada is located in Paris and can be contacted at +33.140.71.28.28 or emea@visionael.com. Note to Editors: Visionael(R), the Visionael logo, WEBcentral, APIcentral and ServiceBase are trademarks of Visionael Corporation. All other companies and products referenced herein may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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