Telecom: It’s in the DNA of NEXSYS-ONE

NEXSYS-ONE’s heritage is steeped in telecom. Their mission is to merge the deployment management, operations and maintenance processes of telecom companies under a unified platform.  The company was established by the network service division of the Lemminkainen Corporation, who represented over 100 years of construction within Finland with an annual turnover of 2B Euro. The network services division provided telecom turnkey construction services and project management to Nokia globally between 1995 and 2013.

“We’ve pretty much seen everything that you could imagine when it comes to building and operating mobile networks,” Jim Prosser, NEXSYS-ONE CEO, explained. “We have a deep-rooted history and an understanding of telecom construction, installation and integration. Because we’ve actually done the work on large scale projects in over 45 countries over the last 21 years, we understand the business and we’ve driven this into the NEXSYS-ONE management tools.”

One of the things NEXSYS-ONE has seen a lot of over the years is complete telecom greenfield deployments (construction from the ground up) network builds to operations, according to David Gater, NEXSYS-ONE Vice President.

“One of the other key benefits of our telecom background is we know the processes, we know the procedures, and we have the background where we can get straight to work and deliver,” Gater said.

The Challenge

For many telecom companies, the challenge isn’t finding work. It’s the paperwork. How quickly can you get approvals? And how can you get paid?

“Our customers talk to us about the difficulty of making timely and accurate updates to milestones and systems, allowing the processing of purchase orders and invoices in a timely fashion,” Edward Carlucci, Director of Business Development, NEXSYS-ONE, said. He identified a main challenge companies face as too many systems to update and maintain for construction, infrastructure, site integration, and logistics companies.

“There’s no good way, in many cases, for these companies to get the necessary approvals in place, so they can invoice,” Carlucci continued. “Spreadsheets are what have been governing the business for years. It is just spreadsheet madness.”

The Solution

The surge in UMTS/3G deployments in the early 2000s presented a challenge with the number of network rollouts using multiple applications throughout the organization for various purposes that couldn’t talk to each other or sync up to improve efficiencies. NEXSYS-ONE’s answer was to develop a project management software, which enables high-volume projects to be efficiently tracked and reported across multiple disciplines, departments, and continents.

In 2012, the concept of integrating software modules under a single platform was introduced to improve information sharing, communication, collaboration and the end-to-end knowledge management. This comprehensive approach allows companies to operate cohesively. NEXSYS-ONE provides software modules that cover a myriad of areas. These include project, vendor, asset, inventory and purchase order management, as well as intelligent cell site management, which are all integrated. It also syncs with financial systems, third-party drone photogrammetry services, radio network and transmission network planning systems, OSS applications and RMS systems via its API capabilities.

When data is input, the system updates all of the pertinent modules. Each department has visibility into the progress of the other departments on whom they are dependent. As a result, they can visualize and understand the challenges they face so that they can more efficiently solve for these problems.

“It’s important to be able to view all of those things in one system,” Gater said. “So rather than having to do your project management in one system, your final figures in another and then you have to log into an asset management system to see where your equipment is — we’ve got it all in one place.” Integrating multiple NEXSYS-ONE software modules, in addition to any existing systems, allows the company to speed up the automation of workflow, he added.

NEXSYS-ONE Stands Alone

NEXSYS-ONE’s headquarters is in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and it has offices in the U.K. and the U.S., as well as a new service support center that recently opened in Dallas. Additionally, the company has a presence in several other countries including the Philippines, Myanmar, Poland, India and Bangladesh.

“We’ve probably delivered over 400,000 cell sites using our system,” Prosser said. “Today, from services to equipment and maintenance, billions of dollars have been processed through NEXSYS-ONE.  We serve customers from 10 users up to 8,000 users, small, medium and big operators and tower companies.”

The company is about to release NEXSYS-ONE Pro , a new product aimed at small to medium sized businesses, which is off-the-shelf and self-administered. It takes aspects of NEXSYS-ONE, the enterprise version, and adapts it for smaller companies, which need visibility into their operations and increased efficiency now more than ever. “As part of our ongoing strive to serve our customers”, said Jaroslaw Zaczek the CTO of NEXSYS-ONE, “NEXSYS-ONE has launched a new rapid deployment and self-managed platform called NEXSYS-ONE Pro. Pro combines the best practices from all our modules that empower our customers with ‘out of the box’ proven functionality to support their business operations”.

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By J. Sharpe Smith, Inside Towers Technology Editor