Telecommunications

The telecommunications industry is perhaps one of the most dynamic in today’s world. Convergence, made possible by software-powered service networks, will cultivate new channels of services and content for Telcos, media and entertainment companies and will open up new revenue streams.

Customers have become more demanding. Their benchmark is no more the telecommunications operator next door. Their benchmark is the world’s best providers of telecommunications & services, thanks to a smaller world linked by the Internet, satellite TVs and more frequent cross-country travels than ever before in human history.

LINK Development has been at the forefront of implementing solutions devised to provide Telcos & service providers with advanced platforms that will improve service levels, reduce time-to-market, enhance customer satisfaction and increase bottom line.

Our Telecom solutions and services portfolio includes:

  • E-Self Care Portals
  • LINK Development’s E-Self Care solution has two purposes; improving customer satisfaction and building creative methods for revenue increase. It provides quick and simple customer service solutions, such as service subscription, upgrades, etc.

    E-Self Care Portal seamlessly integrates and leverages existing infrastructure. Based on open standards and web services technology, the solution can easily integrate with your existing back-end systems to provide portal users with the services they need and the data required by these services.

  • Customer Care Framework
  • Customer Care Framework (CCF) increases productivity, customer satisfaction and retention and significantly reduces cost by caching the information from all relevant and disparate line-of-business (LoB) systems; providing customer care agents with a complete 360‘ view of customers' profile, subscriber’s configuration and billing information.

  • Digital Asset Management
  • The solution easily integrates with Internal Document Management Systems and/or publishing tools, such as QuarkXPress, while leveraging LDMF as your strategic media platform to manage and deliver multiple initiatives. It allows you to maintain full control and protect your valuable content and intellectual property through Digital Rights Management and preserve your assets with Image manipulation and Watermarking tools. You can manage rich media galleries, maintain versions of your material as well as use tagging, classification and taxonomy options.

    CCF was designed to reduce the time and cost for Telco/Service Providers to better execute customer service and to better support requests for improved customer satisfaction. It blends Object-Oriented methods to easily add new applications without disrupting operations and increasing developmental overhead.

  • Value Added Services Portals
  • LINK Development has delivered portals that deliver world- class social networking capabilities that build strong affinity to the brand and to its community. We have delivered portals that provide subscribers with online shopping experience and commerce capabilities. We have delivered portals that consolidate and syndicate content feeds in different categories and provide them to the user with different taxonomies & contexts. We are best positioned to provide your subscribers with the unique experience being a company that specializes in both web design and user experience as well as enterprise software development that delivers scalable and secure solutions.

  • Connected Services Framework
  • Connected Services Framework provides the agility that allows operators to prosper in the new world of converged services.

    The solution comprises of a service control layer that is based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) that uses web services to link carriers’ back-end systems (OSS/BSS and network services) (e.g., provisioning, ordering, authentication, billing, and customer care); with value added services (e.g., messaging/collaboration, conferencing, IPTV and document management). Through CSF, Telcos are able to create and manage new services across multiple networks and devices, thus producing new revenue streams, reducing cost of service creation and achieving faster time-to-market.

  • Digital Entertainment
  • The solution provides end users with full access to their favorite digital content anywhere, anytime at home, at work or on travels through televisions, media players, PCs, hand-held devices and 3G mobile phones.

    Most importantly, the solution features an e-commerce component with digital rights management (DRM) to protect digital content against illegal use, giving digital media content owners and publishers the security they demand and the peace of mind they seek.

  • Hosted Messaging & Collaboration

  • Telco/Service Providers can expand their revenue streams by providing businesses and consumers with hosted revenue- generating services. Through HMC, hosted e-mail, calendaring, contacts and real-time collaboration capabilities are made available. LINK Development is specialized in customizing such solutions to create the unique flavor required, integrating it with various back end systems and applications, bundling it with other services, developing dashboards and reports for management and more.

    Telcos and service providers can now offer HMC solutions that are low in maintenance cost, leveraging industry-leading Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 capabilities.

  • Server Consolidation/ Virtualization
  • Telco/Service Providers seeking to cut on IT infrastructure spending and finding more environmentally responsible solutions are surely adopting the concept with eagerness. Using Windows 2008 Hyper-V technology, LINK Development offers Server Virtualization solution that enables companies to:

    • Create and run multiple virtual machines that operate simultaneously
    • Cut power and IT infrastructure / operating system costs radically
    • Take a more environmentally responsible IT approach - “Green IT”

 
User Experience
Portals & Collaboration
E-Commerce
Enterprise Integration
Microsoft Dynamics
Infrastructure
Industries & Products
Government
Telecommunications
Media & Entertainment
Banking & Finance
Automotive
IT Help Desk
V-Class
Healthcare
Nearshore Outsourcing

Success Stories

Mobinil – Egypt

Egypt’s leading mobile operator‘s bilingual internet portal

Orascom Telecom Holding – Egypt

Internet portal for one of the leading international telecommunications companies

Telecom Egypt

The solution delivered includes an Arabic intranet accessed by more than 54,000 employees as well as an IT Help Desk implementation

WIND – Italy

The solution includes a private intranet portal for internal communication & collaboration between some 3000 employees