Magenta netLogic’s Pricing Tools move into the OSS layer

If you price leased lines, whether national or international, and your customers expect, and receive, blistering fast responses with accurate quotations, plus the possibility of varying their requirements on a “what-if” basis while talking to you on the ‘phone, you are already using netVESPA, Magenta netLogic’s unique software tool that prices lines in over 60 countries.

And, if so, you are in good company. Larger companies that already have integrated netVESPA (“Very Easy Service Pricing Application”) as a crucial part of their support systems include Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, BT, Viatel, Eurobell, Winstar, Equant, TeleDanmark, Eircom, KPNQwest, Global Crossing, Easynet and Sita, to name but a few.

netVESPA has the tariff data of most of the incumbent country carriers, and a rapidly increasing number of competitive carriers. Magenta’s multi-lingual Tariff team keep changes up to date with a minimum ten CD downloaded updates per annum.

Before the advent of netVESPA service providers had to rely on a wide assortment of lengthy and often inaccurate methods of putting a quotation together. In the weeks or even months this took, there was always the possibility of losing out to a competitor provider, and this put pressure on sales staff to use short-cuts, often with disastrous results on the bottom line. With the cold winds now blasting through the industry it is now more than ever important to get a quote out promptly and accurately, which helps to explain why netVESPA users are expanding rapidly.

Now Magenta have announced that they have developed an optional module for netVESPA that will bring the tool even further into the OSS layer. NV Management Reports will harness the archived data that builds up within the tool in use to allow Sales Managers, backbone network designers and corporate strategists access to mission-critical information about sales trends.

• Analyse the sales and the performance of each of their staff against any or a selection of criteria.
  
• Analyse customer data against varied criteria such as location or bandwidth used.
  
Analyse the nature of sales in relation to the user’s own backbone and PoPs, allowing for example network capacity requirement forecasts or identification of customer clusters that may have implications for future backbone expansion.

Help determine marketing target criteria e.g. “we’re not selling enough 2 meg circuits in such and such an area”

Undertake a host of trend related studies using the custom report facility

“The linking of data that has always been within netVESPA to this powerful analysis and presentation package has extremely important strategic implications for users of the new module” said Joss Wynne Evans, managing director of Magenta, “Now it will be possible for a user to predict say, on the basis of existing sales, when existing network capacity will be reached and to find the areas, on the basis of current and historic demand, where further expansion is suggested. Sales managers will be able to produce a wide range of analyses, and the user will overall have the benefit that harnessing the whole range of sale and quotation data within the tool.”

netVESPA and NV Management Reports are offered in an intuitive Windows-based environment either in stand-alone, or more commonly intranet versions.

Contact Magenta-netLogic for further information.