Tag: Comptel

  • Nokia wraps up Comptel acquisition

    Nokia wraps up Comptel acquisition

    Nokia said it has completed its acquisition of Comptel, a Finland-based telecommunications software company.

    Announced last February, the acquisition advances Nokia’s strategy to build a standalone software business at scale by expanding and strengthening its software portfolio and go-to-market capabilities.

    Comptel bolsters Nokia’s software portfolio by adding capabilities that help digital service providers bring new communications services to market faster, master the orchestration of services and order flows, capture data-in-motion and refine decision-making.

    When combined with Nokia’s OSS, BSS, analytics, security and cloud technology, Nokia will be able to offer the software intelligence and real-time network information to deliver better digital experiences and operations in a cloud environment.

  • Nokia plans to buy Comptel to boost software portfolio

    Nokia plans to buy Comptel to boost software portfolio

    Nokia has revealed an interesting M&A move over in Europe this morning. The vendor has announced an intention to acquire Finland-based Comptel, launching a recommended cash tender offer for the company’s shares.

    The deal would bring Comptel’s service orchestration, data processing, customer engagement, and agile service monetization solutions under Nokia’s roof.

    There they would be combined with Nokia’s own software capabilities, which include Cloudband and Nuage. Those of course derive from the Alcatel-Lucent acquisition.

    The result would be the ability to offer end-to-end orchestration of complex NFV and SDN deployments, and thus make a more complete case to the carrier market going forward. One might see this deal as having a similar plan in mind as we saw in the Ciena/Cyan deal a year and a half ago.

    The price tag for Nokia is approximately €347 million, which derives in part from an offer price per share of €3.04 ($3.24), a 28.8% premium above the closing price yesterday. That price has been unanimously recommended by Comptel’s board of directors.

  • Comptel unveils intelligent UIs for digital services LCM

    Comptel unveils intelligent UIs for digital services LCM

    Comptel has added a set of operational user interfaces (UIs) to its FlowOne V solution, tailored for specific user groups within service providers.

    The UIs are designed to increase productivity, empower the critical service orchestration processes behind frictionless delivery of end-to-end virtualized services, and accelerate time-to-market.

    FlowOne V incorporates virtualized network function (VNF) onboarding and service chaining, digital service design and orchestration, and dynamic, closed-loop service assurance.

    By providing a holistic, end-to-end view and orchestration of digital services, it allows operators to transform their current service delivery processes by connecting the cloud and physical resources (compute, storage, network) with business management processes and systems (customer care, billing, customer order management).

    With the addition of four new intuitive UIs called “Hubs,” FlowOne V translates the service orchestration process into routine tasks, specific to individual user groups.

    The UIs strengthen the solution with inbuilt intelligence, including the normalization of service terminology between multiple platforms to make them easily manageable and reusable components, and the validation of service specifications to avoid unnecessary mistakes.

    “Intuitive operational UIs are a key factor for increasing the speed at which services can be developed, verified, deployed and improved – consequently reducing time-to-profit and increasing customer satisfaction,” said Antti Koskela, EVP of Comptel.

    “By adding this new functionality to FlowOne V, we’ve created a new paradigm for operationally managing NFV and SDN, empowering service providers to more effectively specify, test and deliver services across virtual, physical and IT domains,” said Koskella.

    The four new UIs include DesignHub, OrderHub, LifecycleHub, and SystemHub.