Capone is an enterprise collection system that enables collection departments to control, manage and automate debt collection processes of the company while reducing bad debt. Capone Telco helps telecom companies reduce bad debt and improve the cash flow while optimizing collection cost. Capone is the leader of the Romanian market of debt collection software; it has 20 implementations in 10 European countries. Covered areas: prevention, early collection, late collection, fraud, legal, foreclosure, external agencies relationship

3 tier architecture

Capone Telco is developed on a 3-tier architecture with Oracle Database server, any J2EE compliant server for the middle tier (Oracle Application Server, IBM Websphere, etc.) and Java Swing for the presentation layer. Using proven technologies and architecture enables us to obtain the high scalability and availability required for an enterprise class system.

Enterprise class scalability while low on hardware resources

Capone Debt Collection Software has been implemented in medium and large enterprise environments for more than 7 years. The system is improved continuously, with each version, in order to provide our customers with new features according to the market’s development and needs.  Entry-level servers are required, in order  to ensure optimal performance of the system for large volumes. For example, up to 100 users and up to 1 million cases can be supported with commodity hardware configuration: standard (Intel or AMD) quad processor servers with 4-8 GB of memory (the storage requirement depends on the history/logging requirements).

Standard interface to core-systems, easy to implement

In order to have a fast and smooth development of interfaces with core systems, we provide a specification document (guidelines) that helps the client’s IT team to develop extracts necessary for the core interfaces easily. We are proud to say that our specifications were flexible enough to be used in all our implementations.

Runs on any platform

Capone Telco runs on any hardware and operating system using certified technology such as pure Java for the middle-tier, client GUI and Oracle Database 10g for the database tier.

Easy to deploy

On the Application Server, the deployment is made by using standard .EAR files; depending on the type of server employed, the deployment can be made with or without server restart.
For the Database server, we provide easy to use scripts for system installation and updates.
From the client, we only require installation of JRE (java runtime – already existing on most computers): the installation of Capone Telco with the client and all other updates are made automatically, by using Java Webstart (the latest client version is automatically downloaded and installed from the server), no deployment or installation is necessary on the client computer.

Standard implementation plan

In order to ensure a quick and no risk deployment of Capone Telco, ASF uses a standard implementation approach. An implementation project can consist of the following steps:

• deploy standard Capone Banking system on client server
• customize specifications of core-systems export files
• import core-systems data
• gap analysis
• gap implementation
• configuration and setup
• UAT
• Go Production