Ontology Systems Unveil Latest Version Of Semantics-Based Service Management Application At Management World 2009

OSS/CAD 2.0 helps service providers avoid the risks within BSS/OSS Transformations

May 6th, 2009 Nice, France – Today, Ontology Systems announces the launch of OSS/CAD 2.0, the semantics and ontology led service management application that uses virtual Unified Service Modeling to deliver overall BSS/OSS data integrity and alignment, service impact and fault prioritization, and SLA impact analysis to service providers.

Launched at last year’s conference, Ontology Systems’ OSS/CAD 1.0 has been widely used by fixed, mobile and next generation carriers to build and deliver OSS Service Management applications. Version 2.0 now brings a wide range of new features and functional improvements including a Service Impact Analysis OntoPack and the OSS/CAD Modeler development tool.

· Service Impact Analysis OntoPack exploits OSS/CAD semantics capabilities to deliver an out of the box SIA application with a very low total cost of ownership.

· OSS/CAD Modeler is a visually driven toolkit for rapidly building, deploying and managing OSS/CAD service management applications.

Ontology’s CTO, Leo Zancani, commented: “I am particularly proud of OSS/CAD 2.0 and the talent and capability of the engineering team behind it. We have delivered semantics and ontology led service management application that has been deployed in a wide variety of scenarios including: overall BSS/OSS data integrity and alignment, service impact and fault prioritization, and SLA impact analysis”. Zancani continued: “In operator deployments we have been able to align up to 7 separate OSS/BSS systems in under 3 weeks”.

OSS/CAD 2.0 is already in use with service providers across the globe including South African based converged services provider, Internet Solutions. Richard Askham, Senior Operations Manager – Systems at Internet Solutions commented: “We originally embraced OSS/CAD 18 months ago and have continually increased its use. We have recently deployed OSS/CAD in an OSS data integrity application to detect and rectify misaligned systems, misused and unused assets and thus speed us on our path towards end-to-end service management”.

OSS/CAD 2.0 can be seen at Management World 2009 in Nice on Ontology’s booth (111) or by visiting www.ontology.com.

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About Ontology Systems

Ontology Systems is radically simplifying the way in which service providers (ISPs, CSPs and MSPs) manage and understand their operational systems. Ontology’s OSS/CAD is at the forefront of applying ontologies and semantics to deliver a breakthrough approach by reinterpreting business, operational and infrastructural data as a single, virtual Unified Service Model.

Based in London, Ontology was founded in 2006 by Benedict Enweani and Leo Zancani and is privately owned. Investors in Ontology include Celtic House Venture Partners and Eden Ventures, whose proven track record of early stage investment successes include Cramer Systems, Apertio, nCipher and Ubiquity.

For more information, please visit www.ontology.com

Press Contact: Nick Gregory (nick.gregory {at} ontology(.)com) +44 7966 841688.