ADVANCING THE BUSINESS
OF COMMUNICATIONS

  Services

Vertek Telecom lifecycle management [VTLM]

Gain

Control | Efficiency | Scalability

VTLM

Vertek Telecom Lifecycle Management is a set of managed services designed specifically for MSPs and large enterprises looking to outsource the function of delivering or consuming carrier services.  As they rush to provide next generation business applications, they have found that controlling the network access as part of the overall solution is key to providing quality services.  Vertek VTLM addresses this need by providing a suite of services that include vendor sourcing, contracting, quoting, order management, solution activation and ongoing assurance.  Our clients can package all the Vertek functions for a turn-key delivery or can take advantage of individual components based on need.

Why VTLM

• Complete turn-key or a la carte operation for adding and supporting carrier services as part of your existing suite of managed services or consumption
• Highly experienced team of professionals in the areas of carrier negotiating, quoting, order management, solution activation and overall project management
• Transaction-based model delivers predictable cost structure even when volumes are inconsistent
• Access to over 500 US carriers and over 10,000 field service technicians
• Financial assurance capabilities ensure carrier costs are always under control

VTLM includes the following services:

• Vertek Vendor Management (VVM)
• Vertek Quoting Service (VQS)
• Vertek On-Demand Engineering (VODE)
• Vertek Financial Assurance (VFA)

VVM Provides

• Expertise in telecom contracting, competitive pricing, processes and systems
• Simplified and streamlined vendor contract negotiations
• Risk mitigation
• Easy rollout of offerings
• Improved client/vendor communications
• Methodical and proven lifecycle techniques

VQS Provides

• Extensive experience in telecom contracting, loop qualification techniques and quoting
• Single source of qualification and quoting information
• Automation tools to query directly into carrier application programming interfaces (APIs)
• Ancillary tools that automate communication with carriers on an email basis for those that do not have an API
• Manual quoting desk that handles all the essentials that cannot be automated

VODE Provides

• Experienced provisioning specialists on demand
• Experienced network professionals for solution test and turn-up
• Control of client’s internal provisioning costs
• Full range of project management, complex provisioning services and process optimization
• Quick end-customer turn-ups to improve satisfaction ratings and cash flow
• Removal of rework costs and inefficiencies
• Transactional pricing models
• Advanced IP and domain service experience

VFA Provides

• SaaS based Solution
• Complete invoice ingestion and organization – paper and electronic.
• Enhanced business rules to create alerts.
• Direct feed to AP system
• Supports full suite of carrier type services
• Enhanced modules include dispute management and inventory
• Rapid deployment (within 60 days)
• Ability to manage vendors and gain insight for future negotiations