Omnix Software, the UK-based provider of project automation software solutions for telecoms operators, today issued details of the latest release of its software suite designed to automate infrastructure management and help mobile operators realise operational efficiencies. The new version, which represents nearly four years of R&D investment, has just gone into production at its first customer, a leading EU-based mobile operator.
The Omnix software platform is an operational support system (OSS) resource and workflow management tool, specifically designed to provide today's advanced telecoms operators with a comprehensive and cost-effective solution to manage all aspects of planning, building, and operating a network. Its modules support programme logistics, asset management, asset tracking and estates management.
Omnix R9 is engineered to address the challenges of today's global business environment, creating demonstrable savings within the engineering and infrastructure function through higher process automation levels and driving large potential reductions in the capital requirement for infrastructure rollout through improved planning, purchasing and workforce deployment. It includes application solutions that provide improved control over resource planning and analysis as well as an extended technical architecture that embraces the need to integrate and exchange information with other components of the OSS at low cost using a standards-based approach.
Omnix R9 has a facility for plugging in a set of standard or customised business rules that can be used to adapt Omnix's behaviour in specific ways. Business plug-ins include asset depreciation rules, project estimating and forecasting rules, and candidate project ranking and scoring rules.
Features of Omnix R9 include:
a.. 100% web-enabled client
b.. Mobile client support for network auditing
c.. Secure access from anywhere
d.. Scalable and robust J2EE architecture
e.. Integrates workflow with key business information
f.. Easy integration with other OSS
g.. Multiple concurrent language support
h.. Multiple server support
William Tickner, Chief Executive Officer of Omnix Software, commented that: "Omnix R9 has already proven through this first deployment that it can deliver value to the operator by empowering the teams and processes responsible for building and maintaining the network infrastructure. In this latest release, we have delivered a powerful and comprehensive platform for the robust management of mobile and fixed network infrastructure as well as the equipment assets and property locations which comprise the network. Omnix R9 draws upon ten years of expertise in software design for this field and an intimate knowledge of the needs of over-stretched operations and project teams to offer more deployment flexibility in the form of a service-oriented, component-based architecture. This is key to achieving efficient OSS and ERP integration as well as enabling higher levels of customisation via configuration tools."