After positioning as a leader on the Test&Measurement market, in 2005. Ibis Instruments strategically decided to expand out of core business to OSS market. This step was partnership with Micromuse inc. US based company, was leader in Fault Management and Service Assurance market and this was the point for famous brand of software products Netcool to became a part of our offering. This was also the point when Ibis Instruments OSS group was formed. At the beginning of 2006. Micromuse is acquired by IBM and Netcool brand became the part of IBM Tivoli portfolio and Ibis Instruments became IBM business partner specialized for Tivoli Netcool products.
Today, after a few years of market development, Ibis Instruments is the only IBM partner in Serbia, Montenegro, BiH, Macedonia, Albania having certified engineers, references and projects with Netcool software. Our OSS team has 4 full time certified engineers for Netcool products and systems installed and ongoing projects in biggest telecoms in the region. Our Netcool customers are Telekom Srbija, Serbia Broadband SBB, Telekom Srpske Banja Luka, T-COM Montenegro and PTT Serbia.
At the beginning of 2007, IBM bought company called Vallent and in that moment Vallent was leader on the market of Performance Management and Service Quality Management. Acquisition has closed effective February 13, 2007. Vallent joins Netcool within the IBM Tivoli division. Vallent extends IBM's ability to address the emerging needs of communications service provider clients.
Vallent's history is the story of three different companies, WatchMark Corp, Metrica and Comnitel Technologies, coming together in November of 2004 as Vallent Corporation. WatchMark Corporation was initially formed in 1990 under US West's Cellular Group in Bellevue, Washington where it operated for approximately four years developing a fault and performance management (PM) platform for the wireless industry. In 1999, WatchMark was established as a separate entity selling PM solutions worldwide.
Comnitel Technologies was founded in 1999 in Cork, Ireland. It offered the first service assurance product designed to manage the quality of service delivered over wireless networks. WatchMark Corp. and Comnitel Technologies merged in October 2003 under the WatchMark-Comnitel name, and a few months later, the team won a contract with Cingular (then AT&T) to deliver the industry's first combined performance management/service quality management system.
Metrica Systems Ltd was formed in 1993 to develop a Unix-based network performance and service quality management software solution. In May 1996 Metrica Systems was acquired by ADC Telecommunications Inc. to form a strategic base for ADC’s expansion into the wireless and network management software markets.
In November of 2004, Watchmark-Comnitel acquired Metrica from ADC Telecommunications, Inc., and in February, 2005, Vallent Corporation was launched worldwide.
Vallent has over 200 customers worldwide, including operators we sell to and support directly or through selling partners and customers acquired through OEMs such as Alcatel, Motorola and Lucent. Our extensive customer base includes all types of Tier 1 operators such as Cingular, Sprint, Orange, Telecom Italia, Bharti, and Singtel Mobile. Our Tier 2 and 3 customers span the globe from industrialized nations to emerging markets. Our actual number of deployments greatly exceeds 200 with multiple deployments at many customer sites. | 
