The story on standards has always been that if you use them to link together the components of your OSS/BSS systems your integration costs will go down. And if vendors all adhere to standards, you can buy your OSS/BSS software off the shelf, and save millions on expenditure. Prosspero packages TM Forum standards and all of the associated parts to make the standards-based OSS/BSS vision a reality. And in today’s world of dropping prices and decreasing budgets, saving on integration costs and IT costs means budget is freed up to spend on other projects that enhance and improve your business and that differentiate you from your competition.

Not only will you recognize cost savings on your current projects, but the ease of integration of Prosspero based solutions will enable projects that in the past did not make business sense due to integration costs.

With Prosspero:

• risk of adding new OSS/BSS components is decreased – you know what you are getting with Prosspero, so you know how long the integration will take and how it will work when it is finished
• lower integration costs allow the budget to be focused on delivering improved value for the project
• risk of changing business processes is decreased – again, you know what to expect when changes are made.
• procurement costs are reduced – you know how to ask for what you want thanks to Prosspero’s RFP guidelines and through the certification program you know if your vendors really have what you are asking them to provide.
• your suppliers will deliver you what you asked for – Prosspero clearly defines both the interfaces and the way they should be implemented, as well as training on how to use the interfaces and a support ecosystem to ensure the job is done correctly.
• vendor flexibility is increased – if software is easy to change in and out, you can avoid being locked into particular vendors or you can add new vendors without disruption.
• services can be added more quickly -- standardized interfaces mean integration points can be changed and updated more rapidly. Rapid changes to systems allow services to be rolled out more quickly
• you will still be able to differentiate yourself from the competition – Prosspero simply standardizes the “plumbing” that ties software together, not the functions features of the software itself.