So, you own or operate a telecom site portfolio or have already secured an order to start rolling out sites in the near future. Alternatively, you are thinking of carving out your tower assets into an independent entity to reduce opex and monetize the portfolio. In any of these scenarios, as your business starts to grow, it quickly becomes clear that the amount of data, processes, people, and tasks required to create a successful and profitable portfolio is huge. You realize that maintaining numerous spreadsheets and a host of disparate software tools is simply going to increase the complexity of your workload. This is when you realize the potential of a comprehensive site management tool that can not only manage all your site data but also provide value-added features to enable you to reach your goal of optimized tower operations and profitability faster. Demand for personalization, seamless service usage, and the drive for diversity across communication industries and platforms, has amplified the need for efficient portfolio and telecom site management software. A number of telecom site management software are available in the market, allowing tower management teams to access comprehensive information about tower assets, revenue, and costs through a single platform.

Tarantula is one such global software company and a proven market leader in telecom site portfolio management solutions. It is a trusted advisor and partner for tower site owners in 30+ countries worldwide. Through its end-to-end, a purpose-built site asset management solution, Tarantula is a vital support behind the daily management of more than 450,000 mobile towers and assets worth US$50 billion around the world. Tarantula is owned by Volaris Group, an operating arm of Toronto-based software and services provider, Constellation Software Inc. Tarantula´s offices are situated in Singapore, Stockholm, London, and Hyderabad. With its extensive industry knowledge and customer understanding, the company supports and empowers the customers, in close partnership, to build profitable and sustainable businesses which will secure revenue and increase the value of their businesses. Through its end-to-end purpose-built telecom site portfolio management solution and knowledge-driven services, it helps telecom site owners to monetize their towers.

Telecom Site Management Solution

Tarantula provides a purpose-built, end-to-end solution for telecom tower owners and operators to roll out new towers, manage colocation contracts, manage property and tenant leases, acquire new towers, manage site inventory, bill for colocation tenants, manage field workforce, and manage operations and maintenance activities. The solution also offers smart, industry-relevant dashboard reporting. They have been in the business of site portfolio management for over 20 years and their products are being used to manage 300,000+ sites across 15 countries. Importantly, they adopt a configurable approach to deploy these capabilities - drastically reducing customization costs and time. Increasing numbers of customers, internationally, leverage this platform to increase colocation, control expenses, and achieve superior asset returns.

Red Cube Module

Leading tower companies and telcos trust the Tarantula platform to deliver robust enterprise products for their tower and site operations. The framework relies on key business objects such as workflows, data forms, milestones, and reports to build a foundation for providing flexibility and scalability to their configurable products. Apps can be linked to your Red Cube environment through a simple registration process and enabled in your business workflows by their services team. Capture real-time asset information; add geotagged infrastructure photographs, and record asset barcodes on your sites. It offers uninterrupted operational process management with quick and easy workflow approvals. Complete visibility and control of the site portfolio for key decision makers. The modules are closely interlinked to enable telecom infrastructure owners to efficiently manage their assets, leases, contracts, suppliers, projects, and policies, and proactively respond to problems with ready-made process templates and knowledge-rich reports.

Track your business assets in real time to view capacity at site or project level and understand where your business assets are located. Integrate site assets from various process areas such as rollout, colocation, and operations into a central repository to get a clear assessment of site capacity. Take advantage of the direct linkage between site inventory and lease rights to minimize revenue leakage. Effectively plan, manage, track, and complete site rollout projects on time and on budget. Achieve complete visibility and control of the rollout process, integrating all aspects such as approvals, candidate identifications, survey management, milestone SLAs, and documentation control. Accelerate revenue generation with reliable delivery, faster site acquisitions, and contract management through standardized processes. Deploy a step-by-step approach to plan, approve, and track site portfolio acquisition activities with data management and regulatory compliance. Exhaustive data capture during the portfolio purchase initiation, creation and novation of relevant leases, comprehensive field audits, and regulatory compliance checklists combine to provide a comprehensive roadmap to underpin your growth strategy.

Manu Krishna | Chief Executive Officer

Manu is a seasoned engineering leader and an Enterprise Agile Coach with 20 years of experience in product development, project management, product implementation, quality assurance, sustaining engineering, and product support in product and service-based organizations. With his significant experience in agile methodologies and setting up engineering teams, Manu ensures that complex projects with large teams are delivered successfully across multiple markets.

Before joining Tarantula, Manu held several positions with CA Technologies (now acquired by Broadcom). Manu holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science and is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He is also a certified practitioner of Scrum and Agile methodologies.

"We empower tower site owners to achieve operational efficiency and monetize their assets, all to increase the value of their tower business."