Telco-CSP Transformation

Elevating telcos to new heights - modernize, simplify, automate!

Telco digital transformation is fundamentally about navigating the intricacies of scope and complexity while ensuring alignment between IT and business objectives. Transformations typically encompass the modernization of legacy structures, creation of new revenue streams, and the enhancement of omni-channel customer experiences, among others. Additionally, it involves the critical management of fraud and security concerns, as well as fostering organizational change to achieve business objectives.

Communications Service Providers (CSPs) must adopt a strategic approach to address multifaceted challenges such as devising an efficient multi-cloud management strategy, embedding AI and building platform models for ecosystem enablement. By doing so, they can drive successful transformation initiatives that enhance their service offerings and product portfolios, ultimately positioning themselves for sustained growth in a competitive landscape.

How we help:

Cost Savings and Operational Efficiency
Cloud Transformation
Telco M&A Integration
5G & Network Transformation
Autonomous Networks
New Service Models and ‘Net New’ Revenues
Telco Data Monetization
Digital Marketplaces
API Management
TM Forum Standards & Open APIs
Network-as-a-Service (NaaS)
Customer-Experience Improvement
AI in Telecommunications
Customer Experience Transformation
Legacy Transformation

Cost Savings and Operational Efficiency

By leveraging cloud solutions, automating operational processes, and restructuring organizational frameworks, telecommunications companies can adeptly navigate the complexities of the digital landscape. These strategic initiatives not only enhance operational efficiency but also position telecom providers for sustainable growth. Our offerings to drive cost and operational efficiencies include:

Cloud Transformation

For over 25 years, Torry Harris has empowered telecommunications companies to navigate the complexities of cloud integration with innovative, cost-effective solutions that are designed for future scalability. Our cloud managed services offering provides performance, scale, reliability, and security, helping you to focus on business growth and innovation.

Our team of certified cloud experts brings a wealth of experience across leading cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and AI-based cloud data platforms from Snowflake and IBM.

Our cloud services help you to:

  • Device an efficient multi-cloud management strategy for all workloads moved to both public and private clouds
  • Build resilient cloud managed frameworks
  • Implement edge computing
  • Build cloud-native network functions
  • Create industry agnostic toolkits and best-in class integration solutions
  • Safeguard your data and applications through security protocols and compliance measures
  • Analyze usage patterns and recommend strategies to optimize costs
  • Allocate resources effectively to maximize value from your cloud investment

Explore more about our Cloud services.

Telco M&A Integration

To navigate the complexities of mergers and acquisitions, a strategic approach is essential for facilitating seamless transitions and unlocking maximum value for your organization. For successful technology integration during telecom M&A, we help CSPs establish a clear integration strategy, form a dedicated team, and create a roadmap. We play a vital role in enhancing Telco M&A processes by streamlining operations, improving communication, leveraging technology synergies, and providing data-driven insights that collectively drive value creation.

We can help you with:

  • Post-merger rationalization of your technology estate
  • Integrating brand-specific customer channels
  • Building a unified web-services API ecosystem
  • Legacy applications merger and upgradation
  • Designing the cloud infrastructure
  • Developing the customer and partner UIs
  • Integrating the core applications and services
  • Building centralized platforms for publishing and subscribing to reusable events
  • DevOps framework to speed up the delivery lifecycle

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5G & Network Transformation

5G is ushering in a new era of platform revolution as companies with more traditional business models begin to use digital transformation and 5G together for new opportunities and network effects.

We help with:

  • Designing and integrating SDN and enabling data center SDN
  • Managing service lifecycle through network API definition, domain orchestration build & integration, and service lifecycle testing
  • Development & integration of SDN controller
  • Consulting services such as business case definition, solution roadmap, product evaluation and domain assessment
  • Building digital ecosystems to deliver exciting, new capabilities beyond connectivity
  • Integrating AI with 5G to help CSPs’ ability to effectively monetize investments
  • Integrating VNFs and cloud-based platforms

Autonomous Networks

The need for superior customer experience, the fifth generation (5G) wireless technology, and an ever-increasing number of devices connecting to the network have necessitated the adoption of autonomous networks by CSPs.

Torry Harris can help you with:

  • Fully automating processes like Service Fulfilment to remove the need for manual intervention
  • Interlinking these processes for end-to-end delivery across service operations in IT and in the networks
  • Redesigning customer-facing autonomous networks
  • AI-powered microanalysis to assess network performance
  • Network slicing for tailored enterprise solutions, predictive maintenance
  • Intelligent workload management
  • Transforming legacy network infrastructure
  • Data sovereignty, data protection, and AI regulations
  • AI, ML and automation
  • Designing and integrating SDN and enabling data center SDN
  • Development & integration of SDN controller

New Service Models and ‘Net New’ Revenues

By implementing platform-centric strategies, utilizing open APIs, and adopting a customer-first mindset, telecommunications companies can strengthen their competitive advantage. In parallel, focusing on digital innovations, harnessing the growth of 5G and IoT, and integrating API-based data monetization strategies will enhance their capabilities and market reach. Our services in this area include:

Telco Data Monetization

According to TM Forum, the average mobile data usage per smartphone is projected to grow from 21 GB in 2023 to 56 GB in 2029 globally, driven by the adoption of 5G and the expansion of IoT devices, which are expected to reach 55.7 billion by 2025.

We help you in:

  • Discovering new revenue streams beyond traditional connectivity services by leveraging telco’s extensive data reservoirs
  • Developing robust data monetization strategies across marketing, customer experience, network optimization, security and fraud management

Explore more about our Data Management Services.

Digital Marketplaces

Torry Harris has deep experience in building and operating multiple digital marketplaces, to know there are many different styles and business models for operating digital marketplaces. We know how to integrate and adapt multiple types of software infrastructure to give your marketplace the flexibility your business needs - to build and continually optimize your ecosystem of sellers and service providers.

We help you with:

  • Advisory services to help conceptualize and create the marketplace model your business needs
  • Devising a platform integration layer model for ecosystem enablement
  • Setting up the foundation for your marketplace by developing platform architecture and integration strategy
  • Bring together existing or new E-commerce software, marketplace technology (including our product, the Torry Harris Marketplace), enterprise core applications (e.g., ERP, CRM, etc.), and modern integration and cloud platforms

Explore more about our Marketplace Implementation Services.

API Management

Torry Harris’ API-first vision for Telco platform business models fosters continuous digital transformation to deliver world-class customer experience, robust B2B2X ecosystems and overall better business outcomes.

We help you in:

  • Assessing the maturity, analyzing and streamlining APIs, rationalizing APIs to keep them relevant to business
  • Working with you to establish your API business strategy
  • Designing and building the APIs you need using a cost-effective factory model
  • Evaluating the API management tools & platforms
  • Managing the API management lifecycle through the API farm model framework
  • Building a digital ecosystem through API marketplaces
  • API-driven network service models

Explore more about our API Management Services.

TM Forum Standards & Open APIs

TM Forum’s Open API program is a global initiative to enable seamless connectivity, interoperability and portability across complex ecosystem services. Torry Harris is an official signatory of the Open API Manifesto and the Open Digital Architecture (ODA). We partner with TM Forum to help implement this open digital architecture framework ensuring standardization and interoperability across the Telco industry.

We help you implement TM Forum’s:

  • ODA Components & ODA Standards
  • Business Process Framework (eTOM) Suite
  • Functional Architecture Toolkit
  • Technical Architecture & Components Toolkit
  • Open APIs and Data Model Toolkit
  • 5G Network APIs
  • Marketing Sales APIs
  • Product APIs
  • Customer APIs
  • Resource APIs
  • Business partner APIs
  • Common APIs
  • Edge APIs
  • IoT APIs
  • Network Slicing APIs
  • Location APIs
  • Service APIs

Network-as-a-Service (NaaS)

We help enhance network performance, security, and reliability with NaaS. Through NaaS, CSPs provide cohesive management of network domains (data centers, enterprise campus, and WAN), enabling organizations to scale networks easily in a pay as you grow model. We have expertise in designing, deploying, and operating complex network environments through NaaS, enabling Telcos to provide more agile, scalable, and cost-effective services.

Torry Harris’ NaaS offerings:

  • Consulting and advisory services
    • NaaS strategy development
    • Regulatory and compliance guidance
  • End-to-end network design and deployment
    • Network architecture design
    • Multi-cloud and hybrid network integration
  • Network virtualization and automation
    • Software-defined networking (SDN)
    • Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
    • Automation and orchestration
  • Network security as a service
    • Security orchestration
    • Zero-trust network architecture
    • DDoS mitigation and edge security
  • Monetization and billing solutions
    • Usage-based billing systems
    • Service catalog and marketplace

Customer-Experience Improvement

We help telcos deliver seamless omnichannel digital experience across platforms that meet the evolving needs of their customers. By prioritizing personalization, proactive support, continuous feedback management, and implementing advanced AI-based services, telecommunications companies can not only fulfill but surpass customer expectations, fostering enhanced loyalty and profitability. Our offerings in this space include:

AI in Telecommunications

According to McKinsey, one leading European telco increased conversion rates for marketing campaigns by 40% while reducing costs, by using Gen AI to personalize content.

Our AI integration services can help you:

  • Devise an AI strategy which includes a two-speed model for deploying bolt on tools and embedding capabilities in IT
  • Promote the use of a common data model to standards which prepares data to be consumed optimally by AI
  • Enhance customer experience through AI-based call center agents and AI-driven chatbots
  • Optimize AI-driven networks to reduce latency, providing faster and more responsive connections improving 5G network efficiency
  • Manage telco frauds and security to reduce fraud-related losses, providing a secure environment for customers and networks
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Customer Experience Transformation

Our Conversational AI solutions are tailored to transform customer experience across voice, chat and digital interfaces. The Torry Harris CX solutions help you to significantly increase customer engagement, lower average customer handling times while improving the quality of interactions.

We offer:

  • Augmented customer care solutions
  • Conversational applications
  • AI-driven fraud detection and security solutions
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  • Marketplace could be another offering under this area (to increase customer penetration and engagement)

Legacy Transformation

At Torry Harris, we have multiple options to extract the business value locked in your legacy. We'll show you how to avoid the high cost of replacing legacy, so that their valuable business rules and data fit seamlessly into your modern applications.

We help to:

  • Consolidate common application types (example: 20 legacy billing systems down to one)
  • Driving clear analysis of where and how your legacy applications have inherent value for your digital business strategy.
  • Clarifying the costs and risks of replacing legacy - or not replacing it - and then building strong models and strategies for extracting value from legacy.
  • Establishing evolutionary models to migrate away from legacy in a staged manner, when appropriate, prioritizing immediate transformations.
  • Training your developers to mix legacy with APIs, integration, microservices, and AI-ML based automation, intelligence, and decisioning technologies.

Explore more about our Legacy Application Modernization Services

Our Telco Transformation Partners:

  • AWS
  • Ericsson
  • Azure
  • IBM
  • WSO2
  • Google
  • Boomi
  • Denodo
  • Abinitio
  • Workato
  • Databricks
  • Snowflake
  • Ping Identity
  • Nice Software
  • Altzen
  • Elait
  • Tricentis - Sealights

Client Speak

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Victor Matefu

IT Director, Tigo Tanzania

Integration – key to Three Ireland’s successful API-driven transformation

Stephen Reidy, CIO of Three Ireland discusses the "3vision" digital transformation initiative and creating brand loyalty and consistency through digitalization. Three partnered with Torry Harris to build a strong integration backbone.

Stephen Reidy

CIO of Three Ireland

Torry Harris built Airtel’s Digital Enablement Platform

Campbell McClean, CIO at Airtel - Telemedia, TV, and B2B, discusses his long-term partnership with Torry Harris. Having collaborated with THIS across Telcos like Orange, EE, O2, and Airtel, he highlights consistent, on-time delivery and success in Integration and Digital Transformation projects. McClean also emphasizes Airtel’s customer front-end, powered by the Digital Enablement Platform built by Torry Harris.

Campbell McClean

Chief Information Officer at Airtel