Building the software systems needed to support your broadband business requires integrating various platforms, which over time can lead to a patchwork set of tools, manual workflows, fragile and inflexible processes, and lost or mishandled documentation. Modern software systems should be constructed to not only fit easily into your operational and business process but designed to interoperate effectively with your other systems.
Disjointed Systems and High-Cost Integrations
Incomplete Solutions: Integrations often solve one workflow but don’t keep the “big picture” in mind, so they solve one problem and create others.
Data Quality Risks: Partial solutions can create inaccurate data when systems aren’t kept in sync. Manual processes are prone to errors and inconsistencies, often leading to data quality issues. When changes are needed, downstream problems or data conflicts can be hard to predict and prevent.
High Labor Costs: Custom-built processes can fail, creating rework and revenue loss. Many integrations require people to maintain fragile bridges between systems. This approach is expensive and inefficient, hindering productivity and growth.
Incomplete Documentation and Unclear Value: The complexity of manual workflows or custom integrations often results in incomplete or missing documentation. This lack of clarity makes it difficult to demonstrate the value and functionality of your existing software assets.
VETRO Automation Bundles
VETRO Automation Bundles are 2-way, meaning they enable data to flow across both systems, keeping them in sync, and preserving your system of record while unlocking new functionality. Importantly, all changes to customers’ data in VETRO from third parties go through our Change Set feature to enable better control and safety. These changes can be “auto-approved,” or reviewed manually before they are integrated into your system of record. VETRO Automation Bundles unlock seamless integration with adjacent platforms, eliminating manual work, reducing errors, and giving operators control over workflows with built-in change management features.
Better Control: VETRO’s change management features provide clear visibility and granular control over automated workflows, allowing for timely review and approval of changes.
Direct Third-Party Access: VETRO automates workflows directly between platforms, solving the “big picture” problem while maintaining a reliable, accurate system of record.
Reduced Labor Costs: Free up your team from troubleshooting and repetitive tasks like duplicating data entries, allowing them to focus on more strategic initiatives and cost reduction. There’s no need for the customer to design, implement, or maintain complex integrations, eliminating IT and maintenance burdens and learning curves.
Complete Documentation: Ensure your network is comprehensively and accurately documented so you can identify and resolve problems faster, reduce MTTR, and make data-backed decisions.
Data Integrity: Ensure data accuracy and consistency across your entire organization with real-time synchronization and automated data validation. Minimize manual entry to reduce errors and maintain a single source of truth for informed decision-making.
Automate for Scalability: Reduce reliance on manual processes and free your team from tedious tasks. Automation drives efficiency, lowers labor costs, and allows your business to scale smoothly without adding significant overhead.
Example: Closing the Design to Build Gap
Fiber network deployments are complex, requiring coordination across multiple teams and systems. The hand off between design and build phases is fraught with manual and disjointed processes that lead to errors, delays, and increased costs. Meanwhile the lack of real-time visibility into project progress hinders decision-making and slows down time-to-market.
What is your process for incorporating walkout changes into your digital network?
Have you experienced delays or rework due to inaccuracies in your as-built designs?
What is your process for gathering field changes from your crews? Where do you see bottlenecks occurring?
VETRO, working with our construction management and field service partners, published the Construction Automation that couples fiber management data with construction project management and deployment workflows. By incorporating fiber management data into construction projects, so that teams can load plans to create construction tasks, support field walkouts and data changes, track as-built updates, and signal service availability, operators can streamline planning, design, and build processes.
This connects your construction management software’s project management platform with VETRO’s FiberMap mapping and inventory tools to provide a single source of truth for your fiber assets while ensuring data flows seamlessly between teams and systems.
Visualize Buildout Progress: Track project progress, identify bottlenecks, and make data-driven decisions with up-to-the-minute information.
Streamlined Workflows: Optimizes processes specific to fiber network management, such as splicing diagrams, OTDR trace management, and connectivity validation, which are not found in generic GIS tools improving efficiency and productivity..
Fiber-Centric Approach: VETRO FiberMap goes beyond mapping to model the intricate relationships and connectivity within a fiber network. This enables deeper network and asset insights.
Faster Time-to-Market: Reduce project timelines with streamlined processes and better collaboration.
Enhanced Collaboration: Facilitate seamless communication and information sharing between teams.
The Bottom Line
By adopting VETRO FiberMap Automation Bundles, network operators can eliminate manual work, improve data integrity, and gain greater control over their workflows. This translates to streamlined operations, optimized costs, and a more confident approach to network management. With VETRO FiberMap Automation Bundles, you can unlock the full potential of your network data and drive success in the evolving telecommunications landscape.
To learn more about how VETRO FiberMap can help your organization achieve its specific goals, contact us today.
About VETRO
At VETRO, we believe visualizing data unlocks hidden potential, radically simplifying the way businesses operate and digitizing the future of connectivity. We focus on empowering network operators with unparalleled clarity and control over their fiber networks, enabling them to move faster, better, and more efficiently than ever before. Our revolutionary platform isn’t just software – it’s the physical network asset system of record, offering unprecedented visibility and control from strategic planning to daily operations. We empower our customers to bridge the digital divide at a rapid pace, unlock unforeseen opportunities, and squeeze the maximum value from their networks. Let’s illuminate the unseen, digitize the way we connect, and shape the future of connectivity, together.
