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Inventory Rationalization: Key to Enabling Efficient & Profitable Network Growth*

Sponsors: Oracle
Host: Featured Speakers: Mike Sheriff, EarthLink Business; Leonard Sheahan, Oracle Communications
Date: Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Time: 11:00AM New York / 4:00PM London
Overview:
As service providers grow organically or through mergers and acquisitions, the resulting operational environment is often one in which there is incomplete visibility of their network configuration across multiple fragmented inventory systems with deteriorating network data integrity. This situation also negatively impacts their ability to efficiently deliver network-based services to their business, wholesale and residential customers.

EarthLink, a leading US-based IT services, network and communications service provider has recently expanded its network reach through a number of acquisitions resulting in multiple disparate back office systems. In this webinar, EarthLink will share the operational challenges this presented, the approach they adopted to rationalize their environment through an inventory consolidation program and the results they achieved. Some best-practices and lessons learned will also be shared to help inform others who may be contemplating similar initiatives. The webcast will be of most interest to:

-established service providers growing through mergers and acquisitions and needing to rapidly consolidate and rationalize operations

-emerging service providers seeking to put in place formal, proven solutions to manage future network and service growth

*This is a custom webinar

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