Cisco Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager 8.5 Leaflet
Customer Case Study
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
BANKING INFRASTRUCTURE AND
TECHNOLOGY SERVICES (BITS), SUBSIDIARY
OF ATLANTIC CENTRAL BANKERS BANK
(ACBB)
TECHNOLOGY SERVICES (BITS), SUBSIDIARY
OF ATLANTIC CENTRAL BANKERS BANK
(ACBB)
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Industry: Managed and hosted service provider
for voice and data connectivity
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Location: Newark, New Jersey, USA
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Number of Employees: 21
CHALLENGE
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Provide low-cost managed network services
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Speed up deployments in new client banks
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Consistent infrastructure configuration Move
patients through the process faster
SOLUTION
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Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager
RESULTS
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Fewer configuration errors and enforced
consistency greatly shortens troubleshooting
time
time
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Template-based configuration speeds
deployment of VoIP infrastructure components
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Implementation allows service provider to offer
site management to individual banks
Managed Service Provider Speeds Deployments to Client Banks
To accelerate deployments and ease infrastructure management, BITS turned to Cisco Unified
Provisioning Manager.
Challenge
Banking Infrastructure and Technology Services (BITS) is a nationwide
managed service provider for voice and data connectivity, exclusively
serving community banks.
BITS provides voice and data communication services, which allows
community bank IT departments to focus on delivering the products
and services demanded by their current and future customers.
A major challenge was to speed up deployment of voice over IP (VoIP)
infrastructures in managed banks. When banks consolidate, some
become branches for existing BITS-managed banks. There is often
little time to plan migrations from legacy voice environments to the
BITS network. Many banks have no cohesive voice plan and cannot
even call directly site to site.
Another challenge was to help ensure consistent infrastructure
configuration deployments while performing moves, adds, and
changes (MACs) for more than 60 banks and more than 5000
subscribers.
There was also a need to deploy a tool to provide limited site
management to individual banks, through a simple-to-use GUI
interface for individuals with no telecom or unified communications
background. “We wanted an easy-to-use help desk interface that can be used by our customer banks that does not
require telecom knowledge to operate,” says Michael Dury, IT director at BITS.
Before implementing Cisco
®
Unified Provisioning Manager, the IT team did all management through Cisco Unified
Communications Manager/Unity
®
GUIs or used multiple provisioning tools. BITS IT needed to unify the provisioning
process and chose Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager as a single provisioning tool for their managed service
offering. Besides unifying provisioning, Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager offers a simple business-rule-driven
interface that bank admins could use without significant unified communications provisioning training and knowledge
of underlying network components and design.
“Everything is done in a consistent, repeatable way with an audit trail to
look back on. Without Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager, there was no
practical way to do this”
look back on. Without Cisco Unified Provisioning Manager, there was no
practical way to do this”
—Michael Dury, Director of IP Telephony, BITS