Telecom Digital Transformation | Comarch Case Study

The Approach

In order to improve offer management processes and time to market, and enable marketing and product managers to build new services quickly and easily, Comarch assumed an approach that would lead to increased service reusability and automation of product management processes.

To support this approach, Comarch proposed an IT architecture built around centralized and pre-integrated product and service catalogs, placed at the heart of the BSS/OSS ecosystem. The expectation was to enable the smooth alignment of the of the offers, leading to the entire IT ecosystem being driven by the defined business needs. It will enable a fast reaction to changing market conditions by making any modifications in the existing offers more efficient (easier, faster and cheaper).

The Business Need

To shorten time to market of new services for business customers

To address the unique requirements of each business customer, thus providing more value for this segment

To pave the way for digital services – as the services are based on complex value chains, the operator needed to be able to smoothly incorporate partners’ products into its own product catalog

To be able to cooperate with local and crosscountry partners

To unify the product/service portfolio across three countries, while being able to cater to market-specific needs and to deliver customization capabilities as an option

To perform the transformation smoothly and ensure undisrupted work of the existing systems and processes

To have all IT systems driven by business requirements and to eliminate systems which constrain business operations

To increase the precision of order capturing and delivery processes, while significantly reducing their cost

To eliminate the gap between the design of the commercial solution and the technical processes required to implement it

The Challenge

The challenge was to deliver new services to business customers on all of these markets faster and cheaper, while providing a market-specific and individualized offer approach, thus delivering real added value for enterprises. Additionally, as digital services delivered to enterprises are composed of elements provided by the operator and third parties, the system needed to ensure that partners’ capabilities can easily be added to the operator’s own product catalog.

To face these challenges, the operator needed to introduce a system that would best fit the requirements of the project, one that would provide the flexibility required to manage everything from one place:

Three mature markets - system languages, system currencies, system tax regimes

Three mature organizations with their own processes and IT architectures – operations in sophisticated, heterogeneous IT environments resulted in fragmented information

Three different networks and local partners supporting the business

The Implemented Products

The operator was looking to introduce an umbrella BSS/OSS system serving three different markets (countries) with their own product offers for business customers.

To support the operator’s goals, the implemented system included the following functionalities:

Product Catalog with flexible product/offer creation and lifecycle orchestration/shortening – enabling shorter time to market for new products/product bundles targeted towards business customers
Consistent order management & service fulfillment across the entire organization
Dedicated CRM with a single, 360° customer view giving one system for all three countries – ensuring complete information concerning business customers gathered in one place

Flexible business customer billing covers negotiable offer pricing, custom billing and split billing, and is flexible enough to allow offers to be tailored the offers to the specific needs of customers. The catalog-driven approach of the project encompassed a range of highly reusable service components that are used to automate fulfillment processes. Additional time to market savings and operational benefits are expected as a result of this.

The introduction of catalog-driven fulfillment (with an integrated product and service catalog) turned out to be a critical success factor for aligning business and technical aspects of product design. Furthermore, the ability to utilize selected capabilities of the existing legacy systems, while bypassing others, allowed the transformation to be executed in a phased approach, avoiding high up-front costs and the risks that go hand in hand with a revolutionary approach.

The system architecture is centered on two elements, which drive all processes:

Comarch Product Catalog is a central source of product and offer information. It ensures the rapid deployment of new products and offers, and their publication through sales channels, without the need for any extra configuration to support the new offers in the IT systems. PCM drives the operations of the entire core BSS, including Order Capture, Order Management, Product Inventory and Billing.
Service Fulfillment & Orchestration increases service delivery automation, by decomposing the services in the service catalog, and dynamically constructs the required delivery flows from service factories defined at the service component level.

The Results

Efficiency gains in the overall order-to-delivery process (B2B market)

87% to 91% overall reduction of human time required for order-to-delivery processes
Figures measured in the new production deployment against the legacy stack

Automation gains in B2B broadband service orders

Full (100%) automation of service order handling (order fulfillment)
Removal of manual work in service order handling
Entire catalog-driven order decomposition and orchestration

Common IT operations allow one multi-country solution instance

Single consolidated BSS/OSS system (from CRM to fulfillment)
Supporting the delivery of the same products through different networks

European Tier 1 Operator Case Study

Multi-Market Transformation Improves Time to Market and the Cost of Service Delivery in the Business Customer Segment

The Approach

The Business Need

The Challenge

The Implemented Products

The Results

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