Australian Flagship Operator uses Celona Evolve software to complete major Network Inventory Management application data migration

London - UK and Orlando - US, 7th December 2009. Celona, leaders and pioneers of zero downtime application data migration, today announced that Telstra Corporation, Australia's leading telecommunications company, completed a major Operational Support Systems (OSS) network inventory management migration using the Celona Evolve application data migration platform.

The Celona Evolve platform will enable Telstra to deliver enhanced applications and business processes by utilising concurrent synchronisation and zero downtime capabilities.

“Telstra’s focus on building the best possible environment for both customers and employees is fully supported by Celona’s business-centric approach to application data migration.  The Celona Evolve software platform ensures that IT‘s business priorities will be aligned and supported during the data migration process,” said Charles Andrews, CEO Celona. 

Andrew Young, Director OSS at Telstra commented, “Telstra’s vision is a simpler IT environment that involves partnering with world class suppliers using proven off-the-shelf solutions.  With Celona Evolve, we are utilising a data migration platform that provides minimal impact on our business operation while migrating data to our OSS Logical Inventory solution.”

Celona Evolve’s Application Migration Framework (AMF) has delivered flexible transformation modelling and rapid connectivity to Telstra’s Network Inventory Management platform provided by AMDOCS OSS.  The migration has been achieved using a range of ‘Progressive Migration’ strategies enabled by the Celona Evolve platform which reduces risk and maximises the positive impact on the OSS/BSS operation.

Celona Evolve is a software platform specifically designed to meet the data migration requirements of today’s changing business environments for business applications such as NIM, CRM, Billing and ERP.  Celona Evolve is proven to directly lower costs, risk and time-to-value, while minimising disruption for application data migrations.