Heavy extensive growth at the market of telecom services is coming to an end, ARPU is decreasing steadily, competition is growing. Having made a technology bounce through several generations — from decade-step exchange to IP technologies, WiMAX networks, etc. — telecom operators face a necessity to choose a new efficient business model. Theoretically, everything is clear — they should switch from the infrastructure model (capacity sale) to service-oriented model (sale of services). But how to realize it in practice and exactly what kind of products and services they should be?

In particular, a service-oriented model of telecom business makes rather strict requirements to heterogeneous information systems of the operator. In fact, they should become a common environment of service formation and rendering, based on physical network infrastructure. Information environment should be made of IT systems, such as ERP, OSS/BSS, billing, etc., already available at the operator.

Therefore, the task of integration of heterogeneous information systems is the primary concern. For example, having declared a year ago transfer to IP technologies even at rendering conventional telephony services, JSC Svyazinvest made integration of IT systems its priority for 2006.

De facto, Oracle software technologies and products has become a standard in the telecommunications sector. Most billing systems and OSS/BSS systems have Oracle DBCS as their basis. Oracle business applications are used practically by all major telecom holdings, such as JSC Svyazinvest, JSC VympelKom and JSC MTS.

All this creates good prerequisites for the use of Oracle Fusion Middleware as the main integration technology in telecommunications. Borlas Consulting Group has unique expertise in these technologies: the sole competence centre in Russia, successful experience in projects` realization and good knowledge of special requirements of operators to IT systems. Borlas also actively accumulates expertise in integration products of IBM WebSphere family.

Borlas Consulting Group has a vast experience in realization of large-scale projects for telecom operators. Such projects include management consulting, deployment of ERP applications, IT systems integration and optimization of hardware platform. We participate in projects at JSC Svyazinvest and JSC VympelKom. In particular, releases of the 1st and 2nd master system were developed with Borlas participation, we deployed release 1 and are deploying release 2 at JSC UTK, which is part of JSC Svyazinvest, and installed fail-safe hardware platform on IBM equipment. Project on creation of sub-system for HR management for replication at all affiliated companies MPK) was realized, and within the framework of this project we also render HR consulting services. During project implementation at JSC VympelKom we have deployed functionalities of finance and budgeting management, logistics and HR management and created hardware platform on Sun Microsystems equipment.

Accumulated experience in realization of large-scale projects in this sector and deep functional expertise allow us to speak of a competitive offer for resolution of actual business goals of telecom operators.