President of TMForum Martin Creaner Joins Square Hoop Board as Strategic Advisor

 

01 May 2009 - London.

 

President of TMForum Martin Creaner Joins Square Hoop Board as
Strategic Advisor

London, United Kingdom, May 1st 2009; Square Hoop, the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions specialists appointed Martin Creaner, the President of TM Forum, as Strategic Advisor to the Square Hoop board of directors. Martin has been working in the Telecommunications Industry for 20 years. Prior to joining the TM Forum, Martin held a number of executive positions with Motorola, the global telecoms equipment company and BT. With more than 700 member companies in 75 countries, TM Forum is the world’s leading industry association focused on improving business effectiveness for service providers and their suppliers.

 

Martin Creaner commented: “Square Hoop, with its new VAZIR offering and subscription pricing model, brings an innovative approach to the CSP market. CSPs need to transform their existing back-office systems, and deliver new products and services efficiently. VAZIR delivers such efficiency."

 

Atit Patel, CEO of Square Hoop Limited commented: “We are delighted that we have been able to attract someone of Martin's standing to advise Square Hoop. This reinforces our view of the increasing importance of PLM in delivering 'lean operator processes'. Martin brings unique expertise to help us align our business strategy with the market and in particular with TM Forum Standards."

 

About Square Hoop

Square Hoop®, established in 2001, is based in the UK and India and specialises in lifecycle and configuration management software for the Communications Service Provider (CSP) market. Square Hoop’s flagship application suite, VAZIR®, provides product-, service-, resource- and network lifecycle management, based on an enterprise OSS application framework and to TMF NGOSS standards. VAZIR enables rapid and accurate deployment of services and products by bringing appropriate data, processes, systems and people into a single system environment.

 

The VAZIR suite of applications is available on subscription based pricing, eliminating the need for capital expenditure and providing a low total cost of ownership.

 

Contact Square Hoop at www.squarehoop.com