Type Private Key people Michael Frayne, CEO Founded 2003 | Area served Worldwide Products VOSS-4-UC
Cisco UCDM | |
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Industry Unified communications
& collaboration Revenue $12.2m (2012)
£5.8m (2010)
£2.2m (2007) Headquarters Richardson, Texas; United States Founders Derek Lipscombe, Christopher May, Henry Barton, Stefan Peters | ||
VOSS Solutions (or VisionOSS) is a British-founded multinational unified communications and collaboration corporation, headquartered in Richardson, Texas, that provides service delivery and management software. It developed a real-time automated unified communications and collaboration service delivery platform called VOSS-4-UC.
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History
VOSS Solutions was established in 2003 and headquartered in Richardson, Texas, with additional offices in Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom and Cape Town, South Africa. The company was co-founded by Henry Barton, Christopher May, Derek Lipscombe and Stefan Peters in Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom. Lipscombe is a director of VOSS Solutions, Barton is the vice-president of strategy, Peters is the vice-president of sales and May is the vice-president of business development. The company's chief executive officer (CEO) is Michael Frayne. May and Frayne usually contribute to Cisco Telephony Tribune, an independent report on the Cisco telephony market published by Telecom Reseller.
VOSS became Cisco System's market partner in 2005 for the service provider managed services market and is the UC management platform in Cisco's Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS).
The company is a past winner of the Total Telecom World Vendor Awards. It is a past finalist of the UBM Tech Best of Enterprise Connect, the European Tech Tour UK & Ireland Tech Tour, the Lead411 Tech 200, The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 and the Clearwater Cloudex 20:20.
The company raised funding from investors in 2008 and 2011. VOSS Solutions' $12m series B funding round in 2008 was spearheaded by Eden Ventures and XAnge Private Equity. The first phase of the company's $10m series C funding round in 2011 was led by Intel Capital, and included investment from existing investors Eden Ventures and XAnge Private Equity. Vodafone Ventures led the second phase of the series C funding round, acquiring an 8% stake.
Products and services
VOSS Solutions is a developer of unified communications and collaboration service delivery and management software, with a focus on highly agile service orchestration. It is a provider of unified communications and collaboration middleware. The company is also a developer of SIP Trunking and SIP Application Server solutions. It has developed a number of unified communications and collaboration tools, including Unified Communications Business Analytics Solution (UC-BAS) and VOSS Migration Services, previously called Unified Communications On-Boarding Toolset (UC-OBT) or User Deployment Service. Its core product is the VOSS-4-UC service delivery platform.
MiGR8-2-UC
The VOSS MiGR8-2-UC enables mass UC migrations to be automated. VOSS is a developer of incorporating big data analytics within the UC migration process to extract transform and load UC configuration data with a highly repetitive, batch-driven approach. It is designed to work with Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS).
VOSS-4-UC
VOSS-4-UC is a real-time automated unified communications and collaboration service delivery platform. It is a policy based platform that supports centralised creation and management of unified communications services and applications. VOSS works in multi-vendor and hybrid environments, and it supports both private and public cloud. It is designed to provide management and provisioning of unified communications and collaboration services for large enterprises and service providers or telecommunication networks.
The VOSS platform is integrated in Cisco HCS where it is called Cisco Unified Communications Domain Manager (UCDM). VOSS has web services application programming interfaces (APIs) available to third-party developers. Features of VOSS include Web-based Administration, Centralised Management, Collaboration Lifecycle Management, Collaboration Service Management, Business Process Layer on top Network Infrastructure and Communications Architectures Management.
A modular version of the VOSS unified communications and collaboration management suite called VOSS-4-UC which enables clients to apply specific module without having to deploy the entire management suite was released in September 2013.
Affiliations
The company entered into a strategic alliance with Soft-ex, a division of WidePoint in 2015. Soft-ex collects call data records and inventory records to provide companies with telecom data intelligence. The combination of the VOSS and Soft-ex solution gives organizations billing insightof their UC environment. In 2014, UCStrategies launched a new product category called Business Communications Operations Management (BCOM).
BT partnered with Cisco and VOSS Solutions to deploy cloud-based unified communications and collaboration solutions for the 2012 London Olympics. The VOSS service delivery platform is deployed in many enterprise and service providers or telecommunication networks, including Inteliquent, Lattelecom, and Qwest.