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Ensim News

If you are a service provider you know time to market is key and anything you can do to shorten this is worth exploring. Now what if I told you there is a vendor who wants to speed your time to market and in addition wants to simplify the way you deliver hosted services?

Ensim aims to help you with some of your most challenging problems and then some. Their Unify application enables service providers to centrally create, control and deliver hosted IP and application services.

We live in a world where you need to deploy a number of disparate best of breed solutions to customers. At the same time you need to be cognizant of the fact that the competition may be offering similar services. How do you differentiate further? You come up with unique bundles that serve your target audiences. You may have a bundle for teens, another for small business and another for real estate agents.

The company supplies service managers that are basically adapters to popular services such as the hosted offering from Broadsoft. Using an API that Broadsoft supplies Ensim is able to configure, deal with metering and check the health of the Broadsoft application.

As the name implies, Unify can deal with multiple applications as long as they run on IP. For example you can support Blackberry Server and IM if you like. As long as it runs on IP you are OK. By encapsulating other applications the program allows you to deal with a single interface to manage disparate services.

The ultimate goal of course is programmatic provisioning allowing a service to be configured all the way down to the welcome e-mail, without human intervention.

There is no bigger believer in enhanced services than me and a solution like Ensim's is a good idea as it allows service providers to focus on how to make money by providing unique bundling strategies without having to worry about service enablement. In my opinion, anything that can be done to speed service provider profitability is a good idea.

One final note is that Ensim's licensing structure allows you to pay them only when you sell your services meaning no risky cash outlays for a product that may not pay for itself. If I were a service provider I would be spending that initial savings on things like research to determine what added services customers will pay for.

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China Blog News

There are 15 million blogs in China and the momentum doesn’t seem to be slowing down. Blogging software developer Six Apart has reached a partnership with Chinese blog company Bokee to localize and distribute Movable Type, Six Apart's web publishing platform, to Chinese corporate users and educational institutions, beginning in the second quarter this year.

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VoIP Service Provider Directory

Now is the time to get listed in TMCnet’s VoIP Service Provider Directory. We expect this directory to be the most widely used resource of its type worldwide. It will allow users to search by location, area code and type of service such as residential/business. You will also be able to compare services from different providers.

The service will be rolled out very soon. Please forward this link to any service providers you know of so we can keep this directory up to date and as accurate as possible.

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Great White Monopoly

When you own the lines you can get away with murder. If this sort of activity isn’t an example of a monopoly at work, I am not sure what is.

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Asterisk Saves Your Marriage

I now know a few people who have installed Asterisk at home. When I first heard the idea I thought it was crazy but there are lots of interesting things you can do with the software. In one case a person who installed Asterisk configured the system to stop an affair between someone and his wife. What he did was make sure that calls to each person were directed to an extension on the PBX that never answers.

Very clever. Each person thought the other was ignoring them.

But for all the potential benefits of having a free PBX at home, Asterisk is complicated to install. If only there were a home version of the game we could all play :-) . Well, the good news according to Andy Abramson there is indeed now a home version of Asterisk.

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