AAPT streamlines business product creation with ActiveVOS

Stuart Corner
Friday, 16 April 2010 09:26

IT Industry - Strategy

AAPT has implemented Active Endpoints' ActiveVOS business process management (BPM) platform to streamline the creation and delivery of its range of carrier and business grade communications services.

These include point-to-point ethernet, layer 2 VPN, Internet access, IP virtual private networks and SIP trunking services.

AAPT has made a number of acquisitions over the last several years (including Powertel and RequestDSL) that left it with multiple legacy systems, and it has consolidated these using a services oriented architecture approach.

According to Active Endpoints, with ActiveVOS, customer orders - placed directly or by account managers - are routed into AAPT's services-based business process layer, decomposed into separate processes that are then orchestrated to complete the order.

David Yuile, AAPT's COO told ExchangeDaily: "ActiveVOS is a very important because it allows us to deliver a high degree of automation." for our products which means quicker and more error-free delivery, and the complexity of these products needs to be obscured from the customer."

"We launched carrier services some time ago. We have recently launched Business E-Line [point to point ethernet] and E-Lan [point to multipoint ethernet] and we are about to launch carrier E-Line and E-Lan. We are already delivering these services as trials. We have an IP-VPN product we are launching as well."

Yuile added: "The ethernet and IP VPN products are just the first ones out of the box. There will be lots of others to follow. Because of what we have done these will be much quicker. We have dramatically compressed the product development cycle…One product that would have taken us nine months to develop we were able to do in three."

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