The primary goal of any network testing department is to deliver the best possible network experience to subscribers. However, this is increasingly challenging, as businesses face pressure to reduce costs while ensuring more is done with fewer resources.
For engineers, achieving operational efficiency in drive testing is critical to meeting these demands.
Let’s explore TEMS™ Cloud’s recently expanded cloud-based analytics, designed to help network operators and engineers overcome these challenges by automating data analysis, streamlining reporting, and improving the overall effectiveness of drive testing processes.
Why are automation and cloud-based analytics needed to improve drive testing analysis efficiency?
Operational efficiency means optimizing several aspects of the testing process:
- Determining optimal drive routes to minimize testing time.
- Ensuring right-first-time testing to avoid unnecessary re-tests.
- Reducing the time from data collection to the completion of analysis.
With 5G network deployment being a primary focus for many operators, there is a growing need for accurate, near real-time reporting to monitor network roll-out. This is where TEMS Cloud analytics can make a significant difference.
Market trends highlight a shift toward more automated and analytical approaches in network testing, pointing to a greater reliance on network testing analytics to ensure operators extract maximum value from every drive test.
What is TEMS Cloud analytics?
TEMS Cloud is Infovista’s software solution designed to address the challenges you face as a network operator in network testing. By leveraging automation, it provides:
- Efficient orchestration of network testing projects
- Rapid post-test analytics, and reporting
TEMS Cloud analytics is the module of TEMS Cloud designed to reduce the time and effort you require to analyze and report on your drive testing campaigns, while delivering more actionable insights.
As an operator using it, you can benefit from:
- Customizable reports and KPIs: Tailor analytics to your exact needs using custom KPIs and personalized dashboards.
- Faster issue resolution: Leverage fast data processing and dashboards to quickly identify and resolve network issues.
- Integration across your organization: Integrate TEMS Cloud data throughout your organization via accessible APIs, ensuring seamless collaboration.
Key features of TEMS Cloud analytics to automate drive testing analysis and reporting
TEMS Cloud automates your data analysis, root cause identification, analytics and reporting, streamlining the entire process. By automating these tasks, TEMS Cloud ensures you get faster, more accurate insights, allowing your engineers to focus on high-value tasks.
In a webinar in which we presented how TEMS Cloud analytics makes drive testing processes more effective, several features caught the attention of the attendees. These were:
Streamlined data collection workflow
TEMS Cloud supports two main data collection workflows:
- Streaming data: With the streaming data of the TEMS SSV (Single Site Verification) app, the collected data is streamed in real time directly into TEMS Cloud. This approach provides the lowest latency, providing near-real-time results.
- Traditional logfiles: Many operators still rely on traditional tools that collect data in logfiles, and TEMS Cloud can seamlessly integrate into this workflow too.
In this case, the logfiles can be uploaded at defined intervals during a test session, after a test session, or at the end of the day, depending on the urgency of analyzing the data. Once uploaded, a mediation server converts the logfiles to a CDF stream and sends that to TEMS Cloud.
Faster troubleshooting
A key feature of TEMS Cloud is its automated triage or root cause analysis (RCA). By leveraging predefined rules and thresholds, TEMS Cloud automatically evaluates incoming data for any issues, generating recommendations for potential causes.
This process is essential for reducing troubleshooting time, as your engineers can quickly identify the root cause of an issue and resolve it on the spot, ensuring faster resolution and minimizing downtime.
Custom KPIs
TEMS Cloud includes a high number of KPIs with well-defined triggering conditions aligned to industry standards. However, experience has taught us that customers almost always want to do minor modifications to KPIs and event triggers to align to their specific needs. They might also want to add filters, exclusions or additional conditions, which can result in complex KPI calculations.
That’s why, in TEMS Cloud, users can create custom KPIs with tailored triggers, conditions, and exclusions, ensuring that the platform adapts to your unique testing needs. Once these custom rules and KPIs are defined, you can use them instantly without the need to reprocess data, making your testing and reporting process more efficient.
Data analysis and dashboards
The analytics capabilities of TEMS Cloud are delivered through user-friendly, web-based dashboards. These dashboards feature:
- Maps, tables, and charts to visualize data and create workspaces for detailed analysis.
- The ability to drill down into specific metrics, such as layer 3 signaling procedures, for in-depth troubleshooting.
- Workspaces: Each user can have access to multiple workspaces. These can be pre-defined ones available in the tool or they can be custom ones created by the user. You can also tailor workspaces to enable quick analysis or for more detailed work.
Additionally, TEMS Cloud’s cloud-native, scalable architecture ensures that multiple users can analyze data simultaneously without any performance degradation.
Report customization and distribution
TEMS Cloud’s reporting engine is designed to make your report generation quick and flexible.
- You can choose from pre-defined reports or create customized reports that meet your specific needs, whether that be site verification, optimization, benchmarking or marketing insights.
- You can schedule, distribute, and even archive reports for later retrieval.
- Report data is presented via maps, charts, histograms, correlation charts and tables in a web-based viewer. This data can be filtered, and the creator can include additional useful elements such as images or comments.
- You can export reports in various formats, including HTML, PDF, and CSV, allowing easy sharing and further manipulation of the data.
Using these modern components in TEMS Cloud means that you can now generate reports 8-10 times faster than the typical time you need using other solutions currently available.
Benefits of TEMS Cloud for operators
By leveraging automation, root cause analysis, custom KPIs, and efficient reporting, TEMS Cloud can deliver significant benefits* for your drive testing:
- 80% faster logfile loading thanks to refined data processing and cloud scalability.
- 50% reduction in issue identification time through automated triage and root cause analysis.
- 30% reduction in IT overheads due to cloud-based architecture.
*By benchmarking existing customers, we have determined that, by adopting TEMS Cloud, a typical operator can expect to see these results.
Improving drive testing effectiveness with TEMS Cloud
TEMS Cloud analytics is a game-changing tool if you are looking to optimize your drive testing processes. It transforms the way you conduct them, offering faster, more accurate data analysis, automation, and customizable reporting.
By leveraging these advanced capabilities, you empower your team to enhance operational efficiency while delivering the actionable insights needed to optimize network performance with confidence.
Want to see how this translates into action? Access now our free webinar to explore how to leverage TEMS Cloud analytics to streamline network drive testing analysis and reporting.
Ready for a customized demo or a consultancy session? Contact us to schedule a call with a TEMS expert.
