Ontology’s increasing momentum with African service providers key discussion point at the leading regional conference

London, UK - 26th October, 2010:  As Ontology Systems prepares for a busy show at AfricaCom 2010 in Cape Town next month with a full agenda at the event, the increasing momentum of their powerful semantic data alignment tool, OSS/CAD, is proving to be the preferred solution African service providers are using OSS/CAD to unify and align customers and services across their OSS/BSS.

Since its launch in May 2008, OSS/CAD has been deployed with service provides in Africa including Internet Solutions and Neotel, and is generating a huge amount of interest across the entire region. Using powerful semantic technologies proven in fields such as military intelligence, OSS/CAD is enabling CSPs to identify key things in their OSS/BSS data (such as customers and services) instead of simply matching strings - and  without the delay, risk and cost of a traditional integration..

Benedict Enweani, Ontology's CEO, commented: "We are pleased that OSS/CAD is able to play such a key role for service providers in the region and that the communications industry in Africa is recognizing OSS/CAD's groundbreaking capabilities." Enweani continued: "Few CSPs trust the integrity of their systems and, with $20B being spent annually spent on integration projects, it is clear that the traditional integration approach is just not keeping up. OSS/CAD is dramatically reversing this trend, aligning and joining existing raw dirty OSS/BSS data without the delay, risk and cost of traditional integration."

During the conference this year Ontology executives will be meeting with African service providers, vendors and industry leaders throughout the conference.

Enweani concluded saying: "We are looking forward to meeting communication industry leaders from across the region to further understand their challenges and discussing how OSS/CAD can help."

For further information, or to arrange a meeting with Ontology representative, please contact marketing@ontology.com or visit www.ontology.com

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About Ontology Systems
Few CSPs trust the integrity of their systems.  Simple questions like: What has my customer actually been sold?  Which services are they supposed to be using? What really depends upon this asset? have proved remarkably difficult to reliably answer because the data needed is misaligned across a maze of systems

$20B is annually spent on integration projects, and despite this effort, $40B was lost to revenue leaks last year.  It is clear that the traditional integration approach is just not keeping up.

Ontology's OSS/CAD is the solution. Using powerful semantic technologies proven in fields such as military intelligence, OSS/CAD identifies key things in OSS/BSS data (such as customers and services) instead of simply matching strings. This lets OSS/CAD align and join existing raw dirty data  without the delay, risk and cost of traditional integration.

Based in London and founded in 2006, Ontology's customers include BT,  Internet Solutions, QinetiQ, Neotel and Telenor. Ontology and OSS/CAD have received recent widespread industry recognition including inclusion in Gartner's "Cool Vendors in Telecom Operations Management Systems, 2010", Stratecast's "Global OSS/BSS Rat Pack - Stratecast's 10 To Watch in 2010" and OSS/CAD is the application at the centre of BT's  "Semantic Toolset to Optimise Business Transformations" winning entry in the TM Forum Business Innovation Award 2010.

For more information, please visit www.ontology.com

Press Contact: Nick Gregory nick.gregory@ontology.com +44 7966 841688.