With the sector seeing a growth explosion, Communications Service Providers are today looking at rolling out services quickly and cost effectively. CXOs have recognized that transformational services are an imperative to realize their strategic imperatives.
Wipro has come up with 'Wipro Rapids' which is a readily deployable pre-integrated OSS/BSS solution. It ensures a remarkable transformation for emerging markets as well as developed economies. Wipro RAPIDS offers facilities of a Telco-in-a-Box solution for existing operators who opt for transformation or rollout of new services.
The main features of Wipro RAPIDS are:
- It is a pre-integrated OSS/BSS solution developed on the principles of SOA and Web services.
- It provides solutions for all critical areas of business such as Lead to Cash and Trouble to Resolve.
- It consists of pre-defined business processes or accelerated Greenfield rollouts and faster time-to-market.
Some of the chief components of Wipro RAPIDS are:
- Baseline Process Library is a set of baseline process flows for Wireless and Next Generation Services
- Baseline Data Model/Solution definition is a Standardized and detailed Enterprise Data Model for service providers
- Reference Solution Architecture is a Pre-defined/pre-evaluated solution architecture, integration decisions
- Deployable Solution Stack
- Based on best-of-suite products
- Products are preconfigured/pre-integrated to each other
- Offers a set of preconfigured templates and libraries for product launch
- Pre-implements the baseline business process.
Wipro RAPIDS was developed in our Telecom CoE (Center of Excellence). It was designed on industry standard COTS products.
The solution consists of:
- Oracle-Siebel CRM
- Oracle OSM
- Service Activation
- Oracle BRM Rating & Billing
- IBM Service Assurance components
The effectiveness of this solution has been enhanced by Multi Channel Web Portal Framework, Business Intelligence Framework along with the Process Library, and interface definitions from us.
The advantages of Wipro RAPIDS are:
- It offers quicker time-to-market for service providers - anything between 20-50 percent - depending on the complexity of the business.
- It allows you to save costs and cut down on your customization and integration efforts which can be anywhere within the range of 20-40 percent
- This solution is based on SOA principles which easily adjust to varying technology or future integrations
- Due to our differentiated business model around Managed Services, this solution involves low operations maintenance and expenses
- It is effective in terms of massive time-to-market benefits. Greenfield operators and other incumbents who possess heavily customized and increasingly inflexible IT systems benefit from this solution. This solution enables these incumbents to initiate next generation convergent offerings in a short span of time.