ENGLEWOOD, Colo.- Evolving Systems Inc., a software product development and systems integration firm, last week debuted its MetOSS-GEM software platform that automates and streamlines information to be shared by service providers.
Jeffrey Finn, senior vice president and general manager of product development and distribution at Evolving Systems, compared the MetOSS-GEM system with Microsoft Corp.’s Windows system designed for personal computers. Windows, he said, allows applications to be run from a common interface. MetOSS-GEM does the same thing with telecommunications companies’ systems, allowing applications such as number portability and provisioning, billing, customer service and others to be accessed from a common interface.
Local Number Portability changes the way companies do business, said Finn, because now they have to exchange information with other carriers. The MetOSS-Gem platform allows carriers to keep their existing systems and add new systems that allow for information exchange within the company’s own operational support system as well as other carriers’ OSSs.
The platform also addresses the amount of replication of information currently happening in many systems. Entering data into a common interface to be distributed among many applications saves time and reduces the chance of errors, said Finn.
The MetOSS-GEM platform can work with existing applications as well as applications developed by Evolving Systems and third-party vendors. The company, which provides certain number portability and provisioning applications, said it plans to help customers find third-party vendor solutions for other applications, such as billing.
The product is part of the company’s MetOSS family of products that provides applications to electronically process Local Service Requests, number porting and other shared data. GEM, or Global Enterprise Management system, provides an interface between a service provider’s existing applications and its new LNP applications, said the company. GEM also acts as a gateway for a provider to selectively share information with competing providers’ systems.
Version 1.0 of MetOSS-GEM is expected to be released during the fourth quarter, said the company. Version 2.0 could be available early next year.
