Spark NZ chooses Globetom Convergent Billing Platform

Thursday, 30 July 2015, 9:25 am
Press Release: Spark NZ

Spark New Zealand chooses Globetom Convergent Billing Platform

Spark New Zealand, a major ICT provider to New Zealand businesses providing fixed line telephone services, a mobile network, and internet services, has signed a 5 year agreement with Globetom, a South African product development and systems integration company. Globetom will provide its flagship convergent billing and prepaid platform GP3, for prepaid voucher management, distribution and prepaid loyalty to Spark New Zealand.

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 fulfillment. As an example the platform already generates over 3 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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