GlobeTOM Products and Frameworks

Introduction

GlobeTOM has developed several market leading products for a variety of customers in the Telecommunications, Local Government, Sport and Leisure and Mobile Content markets. GlobeTOM also represents several leading international product vendors in South Africa and has a successful track record to successfully represent international IT vendors in South Africa. This page provides an overview of the GlobeTOM in-house products and solutions as well as the third party products that GlobeTOM elects to use as basis for product and solution development. Please visit the more detailed product navigation options for a more detailed product overview.

GlobeTOM Product Overview

The list of products provided in the table below represent GlobeTOM flagship products of which GlobeTOM is the owner of Intellectual Property Rights.

GlobeTOM Product	Product Description
GlobeTOM Grid Enterprise Foundation (GEF) - Software Engineering SOA and Grid Technology Framework	GlobeTOM has developed a comprehensive SOA and Grid Technology framework that it uses extensively in the development of SOA and Grid-centric solutions. The GEF framework is based on the Adaptive Communication Environment (ACE) toolset from Prof. Douglas C Scmidt from Vanderbilt University. GEF includes BPEL modelling for the development of Orchestrated Services, i.e. services that, when consumed, executes a highly configurable sequence of business logic. It further includes a sophisticated .NET-based GUI for the control of services within a GEF-based computing grid. Service instances are contained within configuration domains for scalability and logical service segregation purposes. GEF is already used in 4 different customer environments. GEF includes a .NET, Java and C++ development API which can be used for Service Consumption development purposes, but may also be used to extend the Service Grid to Windows platform environments.
GlobeTOM Prepaid Platform (GP3) - Total prepaid solution for generic prepaid service delivery and billing	GP3 is GlobeTOM's flagship prepaid product. The product is ideally suited for convergent service Rating and Balance Management for Convergent Service Providers. GP3 provides full Voucher Lifecycle Management functions, full subscriber management functions and Rating and Account Balance Management Functions. It includes a comprehensive Billing Specification and generates Charging Data Record (CDR) outputs for feeds into Revenue Assurance systems. GP3 is able to integrate with 3GPP compliant Online Charging Functions (OCF) products such as the HP Internet Usage Meter (IUM). It includes its own Diameter protocol stack based on Open Diameter to accommodate Diameter-based Charging Trigger Functions directly. The product will soon be certified at a leading European Benchmark Centre for Rating and Balance Management throughput capacity. The product is able to perform full balance management internally on the platform, but is also able to integrate with external Balance Management Functions. The product is based on the GlobeTOM GEF framework and is therefore truly horizontally scalable and heavily Open Source based. The platform is ideally suited for any product and service vendor wishing to deliver prepaid services to its customer base. It is ideally suited for Tier 2 GSM Network and Service Providers adopting Convergent Services and wishing to preserve their IN network for voice services.
iWIN MobiContent - Wireless Application Service Provider and Mobile Commerce Market	GlobeTOM, in partnership with our WASP partner iWIN Mobile Solutions (Pty) Ltd, is geared to assist enterprises wishing to extend their customer reach with sophisticated Mobile Messaging. Customers choosing iWIN MobiContent for Mobile Messaging will have the comfort of knowing that they are dealing with a modern, SOA-based WASP technology that can be extended to add complex business rules for communication with a mobile customer base.
Indlela PHP MVC and User-role based Web Application Development Framework	The GlobeTOM Indlela MVC Framework provides a productive Web Application Development Framework for rapid web application development using MVC architectural principles. The Indlela Framework allows for the rapid configuration of User Roles and access to Business Model Objects based on user role allocation. Indlela can be embedded into existing Web application development frameworks such as Drupal.
GolfTimeSA - Sport and Leisure Industry	GolfTimeSA is a flagship online golf booking portal and related Golf Industry technology services developed by GlobeTOM. GlobeTOM is a shareholder in the portal venture and is currently actively looking at expanding the proven technology to other world markets. GolfTimeSA has a unique design capable of working effectively in unreliable network environments, making it a viable offering for any market environment.

Partner Products

GlobeTOM Product	Product Description
Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Operating System Subscription Sales and Implementation Services	GlobeTOM specialises in the deployment of Linux-based systems. As Red Hat Ready Business Partner, GlobeTOM is well-positioned to assist customers in appropriate implementation of Intel or AMD-based Red Hat systems.
InfoBright - cost effective Business Intelligence	GlobeTOM is an InfoBright OEM partner and reseller. InfoBright delivers cost effective and easy to implement Data Warehouse technology at a fraction of the total cost of ownership of its competitors.
Oracle and MySQL - Database Products and Technology Services	GlobeTOM specialises in the development of database solutions based on Oracle and MySQL database technology. GlobeTOM is able to assist customers in the adoption of the most suitable database technology for their specific needs using a product independent consulting approach. GlobeTOM is uniquely enabled to assist customers in the addition of SOA and Web Services on top of their database environments.
CanIT from Roaring Penguin - Enterprise Market - IT Security	GlobeTOM represents the CanIT product from Canadian software developer Roaring Penguin. CanIT delivers state-of-the art SPAM elimination technology. SPAM is a major productivity and IT security problem to every organisation and CanIT provides a range of product options that brings effective SPAM control into the reach of every organisation wishing to address this problem effectively.

Sample of products developed for major customers

Customer Product	Customer	Product Description
Intelligent Brokering System (IBS) - Telecommunications Market	MTN SA Ltd - Tier 1 GSM Network Operator	GlobeTOM has developed the IBS system together with Hewlett Packard (HP) South Africa for a major South African GSM Network Operator. IBS provides state-of-the-art billing and other services. The platform is based on BEA Tuxedo and Oracle and provides sophisticated IN network integration for prepaid subscriber rating and balance management.
VIBeS - Telecommunications Market	MTN SA Ltd - Tier 1 GSM Network Operator	VIBeS delivers Service Delivery Platform (SDP) Brokering, Business Process Orchestration and Web Service Exposure functions for standard-based Service Management for a fast growing content and service provider partner network of MTN SA Ltd. The product delivers services such as LBS, video content brokering and other key functions.
NetGate - Telecommunications Market	Vodacom SA Ltd - Tier 1 GSM Network Operator	NetGate delivers a state-of-the-art Network Resource Integration solutions for Network Operators using predominantly Q3 (CMIP, RFC1006) and Corba-based integration to Network Resources. The platform is open and can readily be extended to also provide Network Resource integration with any other protocol, for example SNMP. The platform is able to address Configuration and Fault Management functions, using ITU-T X.733 Alarm Reporting Principles for fault management. NetGate uses the ITU-T M.3100 principles for the modelling of the Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) network resources. It includes the ability to intelligently cache network topology information and northbound (typically Service Management layer) systems enquiring about network topology can obtain information from cached network topology and NetGate therefore preserves network resources such as OMCs by ensuring a single point of integration between network and service facing systems.

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