Saturday, October 15, 2011

Using IT Process Automation (ITPA) to Out-Innovate Your Competition

Service Providers Must Ensure That Back-End and Front-End Processes and Tools Are More Adaptive, Automated and Human-Centric Than Ever Before

Information and communications networks – supporting everything from VoIP to mobile video, cloud platforms and more – have become far too big and complex for cost-effective management by traditional operational support system (OSS) methods and tools. Each step forward disrupts legacy business models yet also opens new doors to human experience and business exploitation.

As much as these technological advances have required a re-evaluation of business and service methodology, so too do they also demand a re-assessment of current notions of OSS and business support systems (BSS) practices.

The service providers that survive the market transformations currently underway must put their assumptions about service operations through a gauntlet; and, if they are to succeed at out-innovating their competition, they must also ensure that their back-end and front-end processes and tools are more adaptive, automated and human-centric than ever before.

The seemingly intractable tension between increased competition, higher service quality requirements and fixed operational costs acts to constrain innovation and drive margins down for every participant in the market. By making targeted process improvements across network operations and customer care, service providers can achieve significant structural advancements in their cost models and remove current constraints to innovation, namely cash flows.

The means of accomplishing this objective rests within a new software discipline called IT process automation (ITPA). ITPA tools and associated methods hold the promise of enabling a significant, readily-quantifiable, re-investment of firm operational resources back into innovation and other revenue-generating areas.

Here on this blog in the weeks and months ahead we’ll be going into more detail on ITPA tools and how they can help you out-innovate your competition. You’ll learn more about our Resolve social ITPA software, which helps businesses break down traditional organizational and process constraints with an innovative approach to automation. Powered by actionable and dynamic knowledge management capabilities, Resolve has been proven to help organizations realize as much as a 200 percent cost savings within months of deployment.

Ready to dive into ITPA right away? For more details on our latest ITPA offering – the Resolve Event Management Automation solution – please click on this link: http://www.resolve-systems.com/files/pdf/EMA_Datasheet_New.pdf

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