VC4-IMS
The single source of truth for your network
VC4-IMS is a complete, intelligent inventory management system that brings data together, eliminates silos and provides a consolidated record of your network assets – physical, virtual, logical, and service – giving you clarity and supporting automation and transformation.
VC4-IMS extends to any network infrastructure:
- Fixed
- Mobile
- Fiber
- Wholesale
And any domain:
- Access
- Metro
- Transport
- Core
For all current, legacy and future technologies, offering outstanding user flexibilities.
User-friendly, consolidated inventory view
VC4-IMS provides a single consolidated view of all your inventory and assets, from warehouse to the premises.
With a user-friendly interface, rich search and reporting functions, data can be retrieved by any stakeholder.
Consistent, reliable, accurate and up to date
A unique, automated reconciliation process tracks network and equipment changes, ensuring accuracy
Correlate with GIS data for location visibility
Understand the location of all assets, with full geo-positioning, based on Google or OpenStreetMaps
Standard and proprietary interface support
REST, CORBA, ONF T-API, MTOSI, TL1, SNMP and more, providing comprehensive connectivity
Integrate and share key data
APIs enable inventory and asset data to be shared with other business processes, boosting automation
Automate network planning with least cost routes
Automated network planning functionality enables you to design and visualize network updates with a complete digital twin of your network.
It consolidates every physical asset such as fibers, equipment, shelves, cards, trenches, manholes, wayleaves with every virtual asset and the services they deliver and correlates them with the correct status in their lifecycle.
Agile, efficient change management and updates
VC4-IMS makes change management easy and dynamic, by helping you to identify all necessary plants, materials, customers and more. By identifying all impacted assets, all relevant departments can be notified prior to implementation. Each successive change is captured and stored, creating a complete historic record for tracking and KPI monitoring.
VC4-IMS is more than an inventory management solution – it’s a complete tool for supporting your network throughout its lifecycle, with deep integration to your business processes.
Workflow, ticket, and order management
Integrate with existing systems, or use dedicated IMS functionality for efficient task and process flows
Planned work and impact analysis
Take control of planned work, with automated impact analysis, efficient customer communication and more
Warehouse, stocks, and spares
Real-time asset control backed by serial numbers with full traceability through all transactions
Leased line revenue accounting
Understand leased lines, end-to-end, across all necessary assets, with full ROI calculations for SLAs
