oneCentral, a leading provider of cloud-based PBX services for telecommunications companies, has chosen OnApp as its customer portal for a range of products hosted on VMware vCloud Director. Based in the Netherlands, oneCentral offers a wide range of hosted voice and messaging services powered by its Callocate® platform, which runs on VMware. oneCentral chose OnApp to make management of its Callocate-based services as easy as possible for its telecommunication partners, who manage the platform on behalf of enterprise clients that include Porsche, Just Eat, Unify and New York Pizza. As well as providing an intuitive web and mobile portal for cloud-based services, OnApp will help oneCentral to enhance billing and user management, and bring new VMware vCloud Director capabilities to its partners and clients.
“Cloud-based voice, messaging and other telecoms products are almost ubiquitous in the market," said Marius Savelbergh, CEO of oneCentral. "Different enterprises have different requirements and so we focus on the core platform and cloud infrastructure side, while using best-of-breed partners to deliver PBX configurations that meet the needs of each client. We use VMware to host the core platform and private customer applications; what we needed was a way to make service delivery as simple and customizable as possible. OnApp provides the ease of use, the robustness and the flexibility our partners need to provision, manage and bill for telecoms services."
At the end of 2014, VMware announced that all new vCloud Director functionality would be accessible only via third party portals. The OnApp portal for vCloud Director has been in development since early 2014 and is now growing with support for a wide range of VMware vCloud Air Network products, including vCenter and vCloud Air.
“oneCentral has proven itself as a leading provider of telecom solutions and has earned the trust of many international companies to handle their business communications,” said Ditlev Bredahl, CEO of OnApp. "OnApp is widely regarded as the best management portal in the industry for cloud service providers and, in combination with VMware vCloud Director, gives enterprise cloud customers the very best of both worlds: the rock-solid VMware platform they expect from service providers like oneCentral, with a management front end that optimizes workflow and automates everything, to keep life simple and cost-effective."
