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ABS India, an ISO 9001: 2008 certified organization is a key
solution provider in the area of IP & Convergence. A Premium
Business partner of Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise. As a technology
integrator, ABS India design, deploy, implement, and maintain
some of the most complex next-generation communication
networks that enable enterprises to experience communication,
information & technology.
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise is a world leader in communications
and networking solutions for businesses of all sizes, serving
more than 500,000 customers worldwide. Alcatel-Lucent
Enterprise solutions are designed and developed to help
Solutions Portfolio
Enterprise Voice Solutions – IP / TDM Data & IP Networking Solutions
WLAN & WiFi Solutions Unified Communication Solutions
Contact Center, CTI & IVR Applications Enterprise Applications
End-2-End Converged Solutions
enterprise organizations make the shift from proprietary
technologies to industry standards, such as IP and SIP, and shift
to cloud-based architectures, while enhancing the user
experience and lowering the total cost of ownership.
ABS India offers end-2-end converged solutions by integrating
some of the world's leading technologies in the domain of
voice, data and video, with the footprint of services across
Indian sub continent including Maldives, Nepal, & Bhutan.
Headquartered in Bangalore, ABS India has a wide presence
across the country, with sales and support offices at prime
locations.
The Value AdditionStay Ahead of Competition- We provide IP Telephony, Network Infrastructure & Enterprise Applications so
that you can keep customer satisfaction and employee productivity HIGH and operating costs LOW
ApplicationsVoice, Data, & Convergence
Immense Support & TrainingStrong Pre-Sales & Project Groups
Apt Solutions with Suitable TechnologySuperior OEM Technology and Support
Make the Right Move towardsFuturistic C mmunications
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• Application Services • Customized Applications
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CASE STUDY LE MERIDIEN HOTEL, BANGALORE8
CASE STUDY LEMON TREE HOTELS9
Lemon Tree Hotels enhances efficiency and customer experience with Alcatel-Lucent platform
Required a solution that would deliver efficiency, an enhanced customer experience, and provide a flexible platform for future growth
Needed to be designed specifically to meet the needs of the hospitality market
OmniPCX Enterprise Platform
OmniVista 4760 Network Management System
The solutions helps staff to deliver a seamless and efficient service to customers
Voice Guidance functionality allows guests to set their phones to ‘do not disturb’, get reminder prompts whenever they pick up the handset, and also still make calls
Location: India
Vertical: Hospitality
2355 Users
“We chose the solution proposed by ABS India and Alcatel Lucent becauseit provides a perfect fit for our organization. It provides the simplicity and functionality we need because it is designed specifically to meet the needs of the hospitality market.”
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C A S E S T U D Y
PUBLICATION: COMMUNICATIONS TODAY
EDITION MAY 2014
Designed without the need to integrate any other third party solutions
Ajai Kumar, Chief Information Officer for Lemon Tree
C A S E S T U D Y
Park, Visakhapatnam (200 extensions);
Avasa (400 extensions); Marigold (350
extensions); and Green Park, Chennai
(350 extensions).
Green Park, Hyderabad has deployed
Alcatel 4,400 enterprise switch with
about 300 extensions. Later, the group
procured 2 Alcatel-Lucent OMNI PCX
Enterprise switch for Marigold and Avasa
properties. OMNI PCX Enterprise switch
with hotel applications has also been
deployed in Chennai. The Green Park
Hotel, Hyderabad has network man-
agement system, call billing software,
external voice mail (Telesoft), and hotel
application (IDS) based on V.24 AH link.
Hotel Green Park, Vizag has voice mail
facility and hotel application (IDS) based
upon V.24. Green Park has plans to con-
nect these two systems to increase their
efficiency.
The company is using network man-
agement tool called Alcatel-Lucent 4760
for call accounting and configuration
purpose has been deployed at Hyderabad.
Voice mail for guests and admin users
have been deployed at all locations.
Along with unmatched user experience,
ABC-F (a proprietary Alcatel-Lucent
link for hotels) across properties offer
excellent features and super rich guest
experience. The company has also opted
for ABC-F to link between 2 facilities.
ABC-F helps in providing many features
across all the rooms be it voice mail,
3rd party applications, guest check in,
guest check out, centralized reservation,
and operations. This feature also
offers centralized management of hotel
functions helping the hotel in reducing
the operational and maintenance costs
and also right sizing and optimization of
skilled resources.
All the processes have been defined
in such a way that it provides flexibility
to guest service and right from the begin-
ning, the focus has been customer service.
The vendor that provided best service to
our customer was definitely a winner.
"The company opted for Alcatel-Lu-
cent as the company gave more weightage
to consistency, quality and service level,"
says K Mohan Krishna.
The communications solutions at Green
Park Hotel was deployed by ABS
India, a key solution provider in the area
of IP and convergence as the company
has been focusing on design, deploy-
ment, implementation, and maintain
CASE STUDY THE GREEN PARK GROUP11
some of the most complex next-gen-
eration communication networks in the
hospitality sector.
"It is heartening to know that Green
Park Group has been an Alcatel-Lucent
customer from 1992 onwards. The Group
has deployed 3 generation of Alcatel
enterprise solutions and every time the
service of the product and performance
of the product has been fantastic," says K
Mohan Krishna.
The Group was the first to introduce
call center operations at all their locations
and they have been able to increase the
efficiency of their delivery with the efficient
use of technology. Almost all guest service
requests are through call centers and ev-
erything is benchmarked so that one can
improve on the processes in future. The
company is also deploying IVR in full swing
as they are coming up with reservation
module so that calls can land at one loca-
tion and can be handled efficiently.
"Every time we went for a new version,
the vendor has been providing consistent
service. Alcatel-Lucent has also been able
to scale the product every time and ABS
ensured product performs consistently by
doing periodic servicing and also carrying
inventory spares for quick support," said
K Mohan Krishna.
"The breakdown time for server or
telephone exchange has been zero,"
added Krishna.
Speaking about Green Park client,
Sunil Arora, CEO & director, ABS India
said, "We are happy to be associated with
Green Park Group of hotels. We have care-
fully designed and implemented solutions
keeping in view the optimization at the
customer environment."
"We at ABS India ensure our clients get
enormous value addition backed up by
excellent service support," added Sunil.
All this has resulted in improved per-
formance of Green Park employees by
bringing down the load on employees
and minimizing errors thereby increas-
ing customer delight. The way things are
moving, the group might also procure
Alcatel-Lucent switches for their new
locations.
“The group was also satisfied with reliability, ruggedness, investment protection backed up by an excellent after-sales support by ABS India for their enterprise voice requirement"
“We are happy to be associated with Green Park Group of hotels. We have carefully
designed and implemented solutions keeping in view the optimization at the
customer environment"
C A S E S T U D Y
CASE STUDY THE GREEN PARK GROUP10
PUBLICATION: VOICE&DATA
EDITION FEBRUARY 2013
reen Park Hotels are a Hyder-
abad based hotel chain with
properties located in Hyder-
abad, Visakhapatnam, and
Chennai. Hyderabad facility
has 3 hotels located in Central Business
District (CBD) and Hitec City. All hotels of
Green Park Group are renowned for their
specialities and are the first choice for
business travelers, offering international-
class service standards.
The Green Park at Hyderabad is an
urban oasis located at Greenlands in the
heart of the Vibrant Capital of Andhra
Pradesh. This elegant and comfortable
148 room hotel is nestled in one of the
verdant areas of Hyderabad. Hotel Green
Park based in Visakhapatnam is known
for its food and has around 110 rooms.
Marigold in Central Business District of
Hyderabad has 181 rooms and 20,000
sq ft of banqueting. Green Park, Chennai
built on a 5 acre land has best banqueting
facility in the city. In terms of occupancy,
this facility has 170 rooms. Avasa in Hitec
city has 240 rooms and 20,000 sq ft of
banqueting facility.
The group is planning to have 1,000
hotel rooms by 2014 and plans are to
increase focus on business segment. The
group is building another hotel property
in Bengaluru which would be coming up
in FY13-14. The company has also entered
into new service domain of facilities man-
agement and is servicing Indian School of
Business, Hyderabad.
In all Green Park facilities, the focus is
around the guest experience as service
and care are part of their core philoso-
phy which enables them to offer guests
world-class conveniences and comforts
away from their home. The group pays
great attention to minute details which
has helped in getting a large clientele base
and make strong bonds and
also Green Park their first
choice.
Green Park was looking
for super rich enterprise
communications solutions
with ease of management
and capability of third party
integration. Focus was also
on improving staff efficien-
cy and offering innovative
hotel experience to guests
thereby increasing revenue
opportunities across all
Green Park hotels. The
challenge for the vendor
was to match hotel brand image and service credentials with a
matching product meeting all require-
ments of the Group.
Green Park evaluated most of the
prominent enterprise telecom equip-
ments available in market and found
Alcatel-Lucent best in terms of reliability
and operations for their voice solutions.
"The group was also satisfied with reli-
ability, ruggedness, investment protection
backed up by an excellent after-sales sup-
port by ABS India for their enterprise voice
requirement," says K Mohan Krishna,
vice president, operations, Green Park
Hotels.
The company has deployed enterprise
switch solutions at Chennai, Hyder-
abad, and Visakhapatnam. In terms
of number of extensions: Green Park,
Hyderabad (300 extensions); Green
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CASE STUDY FOUR SEASONS HOTEL MUMBAI12
FOUR SEASONS HOTEL’S GUEST PERCEPTION OF QUALITY AND INNOVATIONIMPROVES WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF SECURE, HIGH-PERFORMANCECOMMUNICATIONS SOLUTIONS
With a reputation for high standards and innovation, Four Seasonswas looking for a way to provide high-quality, reliable communicationservices to the guests at its new hotel in Mumbai, India. Alcatel-Lucent’send-to-end converged solutions proved to be a cost-effective answer.
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