VOSS Solutions

VisionOSS Ltd
Private
Industry
Founded
Founder
  • Henry Barton
  • Stefan Peters
  • Christopher May
  • Derek Lipscombe
Headquarters

Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
  • Michael Frayne, CEO
Products
Revenue
  • +38% (2007-10), 63.539% (2010-12) $12.2m (2012)[1]
  • £5.8m (2010)[2]
  • £2.2m (2007)[2]
Number of employees
 120[1]
Website VOSS-Solutions.com

VOSS Solutions or VisionOSS is a British founded multinational unified communications and collaboration corporation, presently headquartered in Richardson, Texas, United States, that provides service delivery and management software.[2][3] It developed a real-time automated unified communications and collaboration service delivery platform called VOSS (the recent iteration is called VOSS-4-UC).[4][5][6][7] VOSS is integrated in Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS).[8][9][10][11]

The company is a past winner of the Total Telecom World Vendor Awards.[12][13][14][15] It is a past finalist of the UBM Tech Best of Enterprise Connect,[16][17] the European Tech Tour UK & Ireland Tech Tour,[18] the Lead411 Tech 200,[1][19][20][21] The Sunday Times Tech Track 100[2][22] and the Clearwater Cloudex 20:20.[23][24]

History

VOSS Solutions was established in 2003 and presently headquartered in Richardson, Texas, United States, with additional offices in Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom and Cape Town, South Africa.[1][2][3] The company was co-founded by Henry Barton, Christopher May, Derek Lipscombe and Stefan Peters in Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom.[3][4][15] Lipscombe is a director of VOSS Solutions, Barton is the vice-president of strategy, Peters is the vice-president of sales and May is the vice-president of business development. The company's chief executive officer (CEO) is Michael Frayne.[2][3][13] May and Frayne usually contribute to Cisco Telephony Tribune, an independent report on the Cisco telephony market published by Telecom Reseller.[25][26][27][28]

The sales of VOSS Solutions grew by 38% a year, from £2.2m in 2007 to £5.8m in 2010, when the company made a pre-tax loss of £1.3m.[2]

The company raised funding from investors in 2008 and 2011.[2][29] VOSS Solutions' $12m series B funding round in 2008 was spearheaded by Eden Ventures and XAnge Private Equity.[29] The first phase of the company's $10m series C funding round in 2011 was led by Intel Capital, and included investment from existing investors Eden Ventures and XAnge Private Equity.[29][30][31][32][33] Vodafone Ventures led the second phase of the series C funding round, acquiring an 8% stake.[2][33]

Products and services

VOSS Solutions is a pioneer developer of unified communications and collaboration service delivery and management software, with a focus on automation.[2][5][34] It is a provider of unified communications and collaboration middleware.[35][36] The company is one of the pioneer developers of SIP Trunking and SIP Application Server solutions.[37][38] It has developed many unified communications and collaboration tools, including Unified Communications Business Analytics Solution (UC-BAS) and VOSS Migration Services, previously called Unified Communications On-Boarding Toolset (UC-OBT) or User Deployment Service.[35][39][40][41][42][43][44] Its core product is VOSS service delivery platform.[4]

Unified Communications Business Analytics Solution (UC-BAS) provides business analytics to measure the value of unified communications.[35] It incorporates activity-based costing (ABC) and activity-based management (ABM) aspects of management accounting.[41]

VOSS Migration Services (previously called Unified Communications On-Boarding Toolset (UC-OBT) or User Deployment Service) enables quick automated migration or on-boarding of locations, users and unified communications devices to VOSS-managed collaboration platforms. It is designed to work with Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS).[42][43]

VOSS

VOSS or VOSS-4-UC is a real-time automated unified communications and collaboration service delivery platform.[4][5][34] It is a policy based platform that supports centralised creation and management of unified communications services and applications.[5] VOSS works in multi-vendor and hybrid environments, and it supports both private and public cloud.[34][45] It is designed to provide management and provisioning of unified communications and collaboration services for large enterprises and service providers or telecommunication networks.[10][46]

The VOSS platform is integrated in Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS) where it is called Cisco Unified Communications Domain Manager (UCDM).[8][9][10] VOSS has web services application programming interfaces (APIs) available to third-party developers.[4] Features of VOSS include Web-based Administration, Centralised Management, Collaboration Lifecycle Management, Collaboration Service Management, Business Process Layer on top Network Infrastructure and Communications Architectures Management.[6]

A modular version of the VOSS unified communications and collaboration management suite called VOSS-4-UC which enables clients to apply specific module without having to deploy the entire management suite was released in September 2013.[7]

Affiliations

The company partnered with ISI Telemanagement Solutions to develop and launch Unified Communications Business Analytics Solution (UC-BAS) in 2012.[35][39][40][41][47]

BT partnered with Cisco and VOSS Solutions to deploy cloud-based unified communications and collaboration solutions for the 2012 London Olympics.[48] The VOSS service delivery platform is deployed in many enterprise and service providers or telecommunication networks, including Inteliquent,[8] Lattelecom,[10] and Qwest.[49]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "VOSS Solutions". Lead411. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 "2011 Tech Track 100 > Rank: 92 VOSS". Fast Track & The Sunday Times. 2011. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "VISIONOSS Inc.: Private Company Information". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Tim Hills (8 March 2010). Who Makes What: RESTful Service Delivery Platforms (Report). Light Reading. p. 8. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Zeus Kerravala (26 March 2010). "Standards and Interoperability and Open, Oh My!". No Jitter. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "VOSS: Easy as 1,2,3...". Cisco Systems. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Zeus Kerravala (17 September 2013). "VOSS goes modular to simplify UC management". Network World. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "Inteliquent Subject of VOSS Case Study". Jaymie Scotto & Associates. 12 June 2012. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Brian Riggs (28 July 2013). "Cloud-based UC's Double Lag". No Jitter. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 James Barton (12 May 2011). "Cloud-based unified services coming to Latvia". Developing Telecoms. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  11. ↑ "Cisco Unified Communications Manager 9.0 Data Sheet". Cisco Systems. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  12. ↑ "Rewarding the architects of the communications industry > The Winners!". Terrapinn. 2012. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Total TeleVision Interview Mike Frayne CEO of VOSS at the World Vendor Awards. Total Telecom. 30 April 2012. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  14. ↑ "World Vendor Awards 2011: The Winners!". Terrapinn. 2011. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 VOSS Solutions wins Best Support System. Total Telecom. 10 May 2011. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  16. ↑ "Past Winners / Finalists". Enterprise Connect. 2012. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  17. ↑ Eric Krapf (23 February 2012). "Best of Enterprise Connect Finalists Announced". No Jitter. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  18. ↑ "Presenting Companies". European Tech Tour. 2010. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  19. ↑ "Lead411 2012 Tech 200: Full List". Lead411. 2012. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  20. ↑ "2012 Technology 200: Inbound marketing and SEO companies top the list". VentureBeat. 27 November 2012. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  21. ↑ "Lead411 2011 Tech 200: Full List". Lead411. 2011. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  22. ↑ "2011 Tech Track 100 league table". Fast Track & The Sunday Times. 2011. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  23. ↑ Jane McCallion (22 July 2013). "UK's top cloud businesses named by Clearwater". Cloud Pro. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  24. ↑ Cloudex 20:20 (Report). Clearwater Corporate Finance. Summer 2013. pp. 1 & 7. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
  25. ↑ Christopher May (Fall 2012). "Creating data migration for Cisco HCS". Cisco Telephony Tribune (Telecom Reseller) 6 (11): Page 1. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  26. ↑ Mike Frayne (Summer 2012). "Integrating UC With Business Analytics". Cisco Telephony Tribune (Telecom Reseller) 6 (10): Page 16. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  27. ↑ Christopher May (Winter 2011–2012). "Cloud needs a new service delivery model". Cisco Telephony Tribune (Telecom Reseller) 6 (8): Page 1. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  28. ↑ Christopher May (Summer Quarter 2011). "Integrating UC&C in the large enterprise". Cisco Telephony Tribune (Telecom Reseller) 6 (6): Page 10. Retrieved 6 September 2013. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 Brendan Scott (16 February 2011). "Intel Capital leads Voss Solutions series C". Real Deals. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  30. ↑ Dean Wilson (15 February 2011). "Intel invests in open source, location mapping for future mobile devices". The Inquirer. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  31. ↑ Dylan Love (14 February 2011). "Intel Just Showered These Six Startups With $26 Million In Cash". Business Insider. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  32. ↑ Rik Myslewski (14 February 2011). "Intel samples 'Medfield' next-gen phone chip". The Register. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 "VOSS secures new funding from Vodafone Ventures and launches User Deployment Service". VanillaPlus. 18 January 2012. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 34.2 Gary Audin (18 April 2012). "Automating UC Service Fulfillment in the Enterprise". Webtorial.
  35. ↑ 35.0 35.1 35.2 35.3 Zeus Kerravala (15 June 2012). "VOSS and ISI measure UC value at Cisco Live". Network World. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  36. ↑ Zeus Kerravala (18 March 2013). "Unified Communications needs specialty middleware more than ever". Network World. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  37. ↑ Tim Hills (14 May 2010). Who Makes What: Evolving SIP Application Servers (Report). Light Reading. p. 3. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  38. ↑ Denise Culver (July 2012). "OTT and Cloud Give a Boost to SIP Trunking". Heavy Reading IP Services Insider (Heavy Reading) 8 (4). Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  39. ↑ 39.0 39.1 Gary Audin (5 March 2012). "Business Analytics Comes to UC". No Jitter. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  40. ↑ 40.0 40.1 Rajani Baburajan (5 June 2012). "ISI Telemanagement Solutions Showcases Deployment and Management Solutions at Cisco Live 2012". TMCnet. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  41. ↑ 41.0 41.1 41.2 Paul Robinson (7 June 2012). "VOSS and ISI are About to Showcase Their Collaboration, a UC Business Analytics Solution". UCStrategies.com. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  42. ↑ 42.0 42.1 Rajani Baburajan (10 July 2013). "VOSS Unified Communications OBT Tools and Services Now Available". TMCnet. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  43. ↑ 43.0 43.1 Zeus Kerravala (15 July 2013). "VOSS simplifies the UC on-boarding process". Network World. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  44. ↑ "User Deployment Service". Cisco Systems. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  45. ↑ "VOSS Solutions". Cisco Systems. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  46. ↑ Gina Narcisi (29 Aug 2012). "Hosted vs. multi-tenant UCaaS: What are enterprises receiving?". SearchUnifiedCommunications. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  47. ↑ Chad Berndtson (29 March 2012). "20 Notable UC And Video Products To Keep An Eye On". CRN Magazine. p. 11. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  48. ↑ Zeus Kerravala (26 July 2012). "How BT, Cisco, and VOSS plan to upkeep UC&C at the London Olympics". Network World. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
  49. ↑ Qwest iQ Hosted Unified Communication Services (HUCS) (Report). Qwest. pp. 1–3. Retrieved 6 September 2013.

External links