CACI Partners with Ontology Systems for Telecoms Service Management

OSS/CADTM at heart of partnership to deliver a step change to unify OSS and BSS silo data

London, UK, July 6th, 2009 – Today, Ontology Systems, the company behind the ground breaking OSS/CAD Revenue Assurance and Service Management application, and CACI, the IT and OSS/BSS solutions provider to the telecommunications service provider community, announce a new partnership to provide a radically new Service Management solution for OSS/BSS systems used by telecommunications operators and service providers.

Based on OSS/CAD, Ontology’s semantics-based application, the joint solution will use existing “raw and dirty” OSS/BSS systems data to rapidly find the implied model relating customers, services and network assets. The solution, which can be deployed in just several weeks, finds alignments that unify the separate OSS/BSS silos, and simultaneously identify the misalignments ultimately caused by poor data quality. The solution then runs continuously to spot data misalignments.

The partnership was formed as part of the successful deployment of OSS/CAD for QinetiQ (see QinetiQ selects Ontology Systems for Service Management – http://www.ontology.com/newsevents/news-releases/qinetiq-selects-ontology-systems ) where CACI and Ontology provided key network service assurance functionality for the UK Ministry of Defence‘s Enabling Secure Information Infrastructure (ESII) programme, for which QinetiQ is the lead services provider.

Simon Pearson, OSS/BSS Business Unit Manager, CACI commented: ”OSS/CAD’s unique use of semantic technology and ontologies provides a hitherto unachievable degree of agility and flexibility in bringing together data from a variety of heterogeneous network and operational support systems to form a virtual unified service model of the operational environment. This resulting service model is a key enabler to deliver a radically fresh approach to the Service Management solution for service providers.”

Ontology Systems’ CEO, Benedict Enweani added: “CACI has a great track record for delivering solutions in Telecom OSS/BSS and we are pleased they are able to deliver the benefits of OSS/CAD in such a challenging deployment environment. OSS/CAD’s capability to rapidly align multiple heterogeneous systems will deliver Service Management benefits that include a lower cost of ownership, the highest level of agility and the ability to embrace ongoing changes in the overall systems.”

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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 – www.ontology.com/osscad – 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.

About CACI

CACI Ltd, is a wholly owned subsidiary of CACI International Inc., an IT services company employing 12,500 staff across more than 120 offices globally.

CACI was founded in 1975 in the UK, and now generates over £63m in revenue. It offers an unrivalled range of marketing solutions and information systems to a number of businesses from all industry sectors. Specialising in systems integration and application development CACI delivers solutions utilising a wide range of technologies, including enterprise business management, mobile applications, business intelligence, document management, address management, and telecom operational support systems.

For more information, please visit www.caci.co.uk

Press Contact: Angela Norman anorman {at} caci.co(.)uk +44 161 848 3380