may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on wikipedia . see wikipedia s guide to writing better articles for suggestions . april 2008 learn how and when to remove this template message this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . november 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message cramers system group ltd. type private subsidiary of amdocs industry telecommunications genre oss systems for telecom providers founded england 1996 founder jon craton mark farmer don gibson headquarters bath technology centre england products oss systems services software development and consultancy owner amdocs website http www.amdocs.com products oss cramer systems office at the former westmoreland road goods yard in bath cramer systems founded in 1996 by jon craton mark farmer and don gibson developed oss systems for the telecommunication industry telco companies such as vodafone kpn telecom bt . in august 2006 amdocs announced the completion of the acquisition of the company . 1 the products developed by cramer are now an integral part of the amdocs product suite . the company name is a combination of three letters from the names of craton and farmer which they found to be a better option than the alternative combination of farton . contents 1 products 2 acquisition by amdocs 3 external links 4 references products edit the company produced the cramer oss suite a set of applications built around resource manager an inventory of a company s telecommunications network infrastructure and configuration . this includes equipment like switches routers sdh and pdh nodes cpes etc. but also cables buildings rooms cabinets etc. originally developed to administer networks such as sdh and pdh the product grew to encompass almost all modern telecommunications technologies . a key feature of the product was being service aware not only knowing what equipment is installed the system knows what each system module card interface or cable can do which circuits or connections are configured on the network and which customer services use these connections . additional modules grew to include task engine for complex design and assign task automation and basic workflow management ; delivery engine to manage complex change control planning plan execution including external workforce management system integration reporting ; sync engine used to prevent mismatches between the information in the inventory system and the live network ; discovery engine to retrieve configuration information from network devices and element managers ; activation engine to provision network resources ; service manager & service catalog to take requests for services from a catalog and convert them into requests in delivery engine and task engine ; route finder to identify physically redundant paths through the network ; class of service manager used to manage ip network policies ; site manager used to model and manage physical layout of exchanges datacenters their power and cooling ; it manager used to model services running on servers and virtual machines ; partition manager used to provide multi tenant like data security ; and numerous integration points to other oss systems such as inventory import export fcaps alarm enrichment etc. the latest two versions of the oss suite uses java as middleware platform for the gui and some interfaces or adapters between the suite and external systems . acquisition by amdocs edit although cramer has been acquired by amdocs in august 2006 the development of their products continues and is still based at their technology center in bath england . they continue to exist but now as the oss department of the much larger bss developer amdocs . 2 external links edit amdocs oss homepage references edit amdocs announces completion of acquisition cramer amdocs to acquire cramer retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cramer systems & oldid 729772790 categories software companies of the united kingdomnetwork managementtelecommunications companies of the united kingdomhidden categories wikipedia articles needing style editing from april 2008all articles needing style editingarticles needing additional references from november 2015all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages nederlands edit links this page was last modified on 14 july 2016 at 13 15 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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