The BoldTech Story

BoldTech Systems, a systems integration consultancy, was started in the basement of a Boulder, CO, home in 1996. Since those modest beginnings, BoldTech has grown to well over a hundred employees in five states, with profits every quarter since inception.

Target Markets

The telecommunications marketplace is in a constant state of change and innovation. This type of atmosphere demands vendors with solid knowledge and expertise that borders on visionary. Because of its deep expertise in telecommunications, BoldTech Systems enables its clients to get their products to market faster (in unprecedented time frames) with a much larger bottom line. BoldTech’s target markets:

• Emerging DLEC, CLEC, and Incumbent carriers
• Data communications, long distance, local, wireless
• Aggressive Telcos marketing complex IP products

Core Competencies

BoldTech has maintained its dramatic growth and profitability by focusing its core competencies in the telecommunications industry. BoldTech adopted a solution center approach and developed deep expertise in these solution components:

• Order Entry
• Order Management
• Assign and Design
• Activation and Service Control
• Product pricing and configuration
• Service provisioning, Service Inventory
• Network Inventory
• Customer Care
• Customer Portals and Relationship Management
• Sales Force Support
• B2B Front End, B2B Back End
• Network Integration
• Software Engineering
• Java
• Distributed Object Technology
• Telecommunications Domain Knowledge

BoldTech Systems has gained a well-deserved reputation for delivering projects faster than anyone else. That’s because BoldTech has a cache of reusable code frameworks that can be customized to a client’s specific needs. The collection:

• n-tier Reference Architecture
• Reusable baseline Distributed OO architecture that enables separation of business objects, data objects, process automation, and messaging
• Application Development Frameworks
• General frameworks for exception handling centralized logging, alarming, security and operational monitoring.
• Automated Testing Frameworks
• Automated testing is the key to successful iterative development and an integral component of BoldTech’s methodology.
• Telecom Specific Designs
• Reusable component designs and design patterns for Order Entry, Online Customer Support, Order Management, Product Catalog, B2B, Network Inventory, Provisioning, Activation

These components, used with BoldTech’s development practices, have enabled BoldTech to create what they call Extreme Delivery or Bold/XP. The major concepts of Bold/XP are:

• Stakeholder Involvement
• BoldTech engages stakeholders during the entire development life cycle, rather than during the requirements gathering phase. Stakeholders learn the approximate cost of a feature early in the process and use this information to reprioritize requirements as desired.
• Deliver Incrementally
• Deliver the highest priority items first and deliver business value in each iteration. In addition, Bold/XP produces full production releases every few months.
• Automating Testing
• Bold/XP maintains a high quality of code by using an abundance of automated tests to verify code stability and the state of the system.
• High Bandwidth Communication
• Knowledge transfer with users and stakeholders occurs constantly, not when the product goes into production.
• Embracing change, rather than fighting it
• BoldTech deems it OK for the business to adjust requirements and priorities in the middle of a project as insight is gained into the business problem and solution.

And if that’s not enough to sell you on BoldTech, look at the technology you will be using: Java, EJB, JSP, CORBA, XML, C++