Another project is done by AT Consulting and VimpelCom
21.07.2008
The VimpelCom Group and AT Consulting Group proudly announce that program of integration into centralized IT systems for the newly acquired by VimpelCom companies throughout Russia is successfully finished.
AT Consulting and VimpelCom team had quite a task before them: complete subscribers migration into the centrilized VimpelCom IT architecture (based upon Ensemble billing system and PPS Comverse) for recently formed offices in Orenburg, Far Eastern, Stavropol, Kaliningrad and South Sakhalin regions.
In course of the project there had been developed universal methodology letting data migration flow easily in each case yet taking into consideration all business processes features of each newly acquired operator. The team conducted migrations avoiding even slightest inconveniences for the subscribers. Now all offices work according to standard VimpelCom processes and use the same reporting procedure. Experience gained by the team is to be used on all future projects for VimpelCom both in and outside Russia.
Alexey Orlov, AT Consulting project manager, comments: “We took active part in those early similar projects back in 2002. Basics concept, developed back then, is upgraded with each migration. So it is safe to say that now any project in this field is well within our range.”
The VimpelCom Group (NYSE:VIP) is a telecommunications operator, providing voice and data servicing, covered through a range of wireless, fixed and broadband technologies. The Group includes companies operating in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Georgia and Armenia, in territories with a total population of about 250 million. The wireless subsidiaries of VimpelCom Group operate under the "Beeline" brand
The VimpelCom Group's license portfolio covers a territory with a population of about 250 million. Geographically it covers 78 regions of Russia with about 140 million people, representing 97% of Russia's population as well as the entire territories of Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Georgia and Armenia.
As of December 31, 2007, VimpelCom's total number of active subscribers in Russia and the CIS was 51.7 million (including 42.2 million in Russia, 4.6 million in Kazakhstan and 1.9 million in Ukraine).
On February 29, 2008 VimpelCom completed a merger with Golden Telecom, a leading facilities-based provider of integrated telecommunications and Internet services in Russia and the CIS.
VimpelCom was the first Russian company to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in November 1996. Its ADSs (American Depositary Shares) are traded under the symbol "VIP".
