Tribold has been selected as the preferred Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) vendor to ETIS, the Global IT Association for Telecommunications.
The selection process, undertaken by the Enterprise Architecture Working Group of ETIS, was triggered by ETIS CSP members facing challenges developing ‘simple & rich’ commercial product offers while dealing with the ever increasing complexity of combining capabilities from specialised silos, legacy telco applications and new webco platforms.
In the validation process, ETIS cited that product launches often involved many dedicated OSS/BSS and their different product data models and processes that were not designed to co-operate for product composition.
Terje Tondel, ETIS director, noted: “The whole Product Lifecycle Management process, and especially the time to market, are impacted negatively by this lack of flexibility and poor re-use capability,” he said. “Traditionally, Product Management is organised in silos such as voice, data, security and so on, potentially generating conflict when offering converged bundles.”
Commenting on the selection announcement, Catherine Michel, CTO and founder of Tribold, said: “ETIS CSP members live with product management challenges every day and no one is better placed to identify vendors who can meet these business and technical challenges. We are very happy with being selected as one of the preferred PLM vendors to ETIS, and are looking forward to accelerating PLM implementations with ETIS members. We would also like to thank members of the Enterprise Architecture Working Group for all their time and effort throughout the selection process.”
