Globetom today announced that it has extended its telecommunications industry reach with GP3, its flagship convergent billing and prepaid platform.
Globetom has signed a five-year agreement with Spark New Zealand, previously Telecom New Zealand, to provide its GP3 platform for prepaid voucher management, distribution and prepaid loyalty.
Commenting on the recent deployment of GP3 in Spark New Zealand, Dr Claire Barber, GM Change & Technology at Spark says "The fact that Globetom offered a comprehensive voucher management and loyalty platform in a single solution made their offer to us very compelling."
GP3 has initially been rolled out in Spark New Zealand for prepaid voucher management resulting in total prepaid voucher management control functions being rolled out on a single platform. The management functions include voucher generation, distribution to electronic distributors and full life-cycle management of vouchers. The system also includes processing of sales from distributors for revenue assurance purposes.
Lisa Chapman, Delivery IT Integrator at Spark commented: "I have been very impressed with the capability of the Globetom team throughout the project to deploy the GP3 solution. We had a mixture of both on and off shore technical and project resources working alongside the Spark team and the collaboration between the teams was outstanding. Globetom ensured that they fully understood Spark's business processes and technical environment, resulting in a smooth migration from our legacy platform and seamless deployment into production."
Future rollouts are planned which will further enhance Spark New Zealand's renewal and innovation strategy by leveraging other system functions offered by Globetom.
Globetom's contract with Spark New Zealand marks its entry into the APAC region and further extends its GP3 market penetration. GP3 is used by multiple customers spanning Nigeria, Qatar, South Africa and Zambia for loyalty, voucher management, billing, electronic prepaid distribution, revenue assurance and transaction fulfilment. As an example the platform already generates over three million transaction journal entries per month in Zambia alone, forming part of multi-party service delivery environments.
The addition of Spark New Zealand to Globetom's client list is further endorsement of Globetom's contribution to technology innovation in South Africa and the broader telecommunications industry and is illustrative of the growing interest from telecommunications companies to look at innovative new suppliers to offer market differentiation.
Commenting on Globetom's future aspirations, Philip Stander went on to state that "Globetom's ability to offer a one-stop solution for the operation of prepaid distribution and top-up operations coupled with embedded customer business intelligence functionality places Globetom in a unique position to offer our platform to the telecommunications industry at large."
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Globetom
Globetom helps businesses build, deploy and monetise services in the cloud. Globetom's core areas of competency include loyalty, voucher management, prepaid management and distribution, enterprise middleware, a SOA application platform and Internet of things event processing.
Globetom's experience in the telecommunications industry includes BSS and OSS products and solutions. Globetom specialises in the areas of service fulfilment, assurance and billing solutions and uses service-oriented architecture principles to build future-proof solutions for its customers.
Spark New Zealand
Spark New Zealand is New Zealand's largest digital services company delivering mobile, fixed and IT products and services to millions of New Zealand consumers and businesses. Its ambition is to be a winning business, inspired by customers to unleash the potential in all New Zealanders.
Spark New Zealand is a multi-brand business, with principal brands Spark (supporting home, consumer mobile and small business customers) and Spark Digital (supporting government and business customers with strong Cloud services, mobility and ICT capabilities). Specialist and flanking brands include Skinny (consumer mobile), Revera and Appserv (data hosting services), Lightbox (internet TV), Qrious (data analytics), and Bigpipe (consumer broadband). An in-house incubator, Spark Ventures, is developing other new business opportunities.
Fully privatised since 1990, Spark New Zealand is listed on the NZX and ASX stock exchanges. Spark New Zealand contributes significantly to the community via the Spark Foundation, whose activities include ownership of Givealittle, New Zealand's first 'zero-fees' online crowdfunding platform through which generous New Zealanders donate millions of dollars annually to thousands of charities and deserving causes; and as a key partner of the Manaiakalani Education Trust, which is transforming digital learning at schools within economically-challenged communities across New Zealand.
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