{"id":4543,"date":"2016-03-02T13:44:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T11:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.invest-aura.com\/?page_id=4543"},"modified":"2024-07-01T10:46:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T08:46:29","slug":"capex-opex-planning","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/solutions\/capex-opex-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"Capex &#038; Opex Planning, Business simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investaura consultants master the science and the art of developing realistic and accurate models of innovative technologies and businesses. The use cases are very diverse and comprise in particular:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CapEx and OpEx planning for new network roll-out or technology migration<\/li>\n<li>Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) optimisation<\/li>\n<li>Service Costing and Profitability Analysis<\/li>\n<li>Value Selling of complex high-tech solutions<\/li>\n<li>Business simulation and scenario analysis for the entire company<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"metaslider-id-4620\" style=\"max-width: 800px; margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-90-0 metaslider metaslider-nivo metaslider-4620 ml-slider ms-theme-default\" role=\"region\" aria-roledescription=\"Slideshow\" aria-label=\"STEM\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_4620\">\n        <div class='slider-wrapper theme-default'><div class='ribbon'><\/div><div id='metaslider_4620' class='nivoSlider'><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/BusinessSimulationModel_smaller.jpg?resize=720%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"450\" width=\"720\" data-caption=\"Business simulation for a Mobile Operator: 43 views, 350 services, 3000 elements\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-4620 slide-4615\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/NOT_STEM_Model.png?resize=720%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"450\" width=\"720\" data-caption=\"STEM: CapEx and OpEx Planning, TCO optimisation\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-4620 slide-2095\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/KPI_report_smaller.jpg?resize=720%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"450\" width=\"720\" data-caption=\"Quarterly KPI report: Performance analysis and forecasting\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-4620 slide-4624\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/NOTM.jpg?resize=720%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"450\" width=\"720\" data-caption=\"Web interface for results analysis and scenario comparison\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-4620 slide-1822\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div><\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of Investaura&#8217;s preferred\u00a0platform for business\u00a0simulation is STEM from Implied Logic.\u00a0STEM is a generic modelling tool used for strategic planning of ICT infrastructure and solutions. As a techno-economic planning tool, it looks into the future and generates short-term (6\u201324 months), medium-term (2\u20135 years) or long-term (5\u201310 years) forecasts: financial items such as revenues, costs (OPEX, CAPEX), profitability (e.g. EBITDA, EBIT), and also non-financial items (dimensioning rules, volume of equipment, number of staff, utilisation etc.). STEM is demand-driven, i.e. resources (networks, human resources etc.) are driven by demand (end-customers, services, traffic, revenues), as well as network deployment requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The key strengths of STEM include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Graphical interface with object-oriented modelling, making it easy to communicate even large and complex models, their assumptions and their results<\/li>\n<li>Ability to handle both greenfield and brownfield networks and capture the status of the CSP at the start of the simulation (initial Bill of Material for assets; Balance Sheet \/ Profit and Loss etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Hundreds of pre-defined results, as well as an interface to define new results for various types of elements in the model (total business; customer segment; services; resources etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Shorter time periods (months, quarters, years) with flexible granularity over time and automatic results consolidation<\/li>\n<li>Scenario management and sensitivity analysis, making it very easy to handle alternative cases and compare their respective benefits<\/li>\n<li>Models can be exported to the web for multi-user access, enabling a large number of internal staff and external partners with no knowledge of STEM to run their own simulations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[download id=&#8221;3017&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Note that both bottom-up and top-down models can be implemented in STEM. Bottom-up models are usually very detailed and run the risk of becoming not only very complex over time, but also difficult to maintain. Furthermore, they tend to suffer from &#8216;precision fallacy&#8217;, and many aspects included in bottom-up models might only have a small impact on the overall results, while key but difficult-to-quantify issues might be forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>For more information or a demo of STEM, feel free to\u00a0<a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http:\/\/www.investaura.co\/contact\/\">contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investaura consultants master the science and the art of developing realistic and accurate models of innovative technologies and businesses. 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