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Comarch expands Latin American presence, enters Brazilian telecom market. Comarch, a provider of complete IT solutions for telecoms, announced that its BSS solutions have been chosen by a U.S.-based communications provider for the launch of services in Brazil. The launch, which builds upon Comarch’s already established presence in Latin America, will offer Brazilian telecoms and […]
“Michael Lombardo and Robert Eichinger published the data from one study in their 1996 book ‘Career Architect Development Planner’ which revealed that lessons learned by successful and effective managers are roughly 70% from tough jobs, 20% from people (mostly the boss) and 10% from courses and reading.” 70-20-10 Forum. Does that match up with your […]
“Turns out that most of us don’t like losing. In fact, it’s what the academics call loss aversion. We feel the pain of loss more acutely than we feel the pleasure of gain. In other words, we may like to win, but we hate to lose.” Carl Richards here on NYTimes. If you’ve ever worked […]
“One of my partners reminds us that, to be a success, a company must not only sell successfully to its immediate customers (“sell-to”), but also enable the customer to sell successfully to his/her end customers (“sell-through”), not just once, but repeatedly. Too often we (as venture investors) see businesses that have revenue traction selling to […]
“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” Steve Jobs. The quote above is highly relevant for Steve Jobs’ target audience, which was a mass-market retail model where it’s simply not viable to design custom solutions for ever […]
“It started with ‘What incredible benefits can we give to the customer…Where can we take the customer?’ Not starting with ‘Let’s sit down with the engineers and figure out what awesome technology we have and how we’re going to market that.’” Steve Jobs. Do you exactly know who uses your OSS (not which customers, but […]
Because telcos’ business has become a lot more challenging in recent years, largely because of the OTT players, their way of sourcing equipment is changing. No longer do they simply write an RFP, which leads to a contract and then deployment, said Paul Scanlan, president of Huawei’s business and network consulting group. Paul’s group, which […]
“The traditional business model of utility companies is under threat, with a new approach needed to ensure future success.” EY‘s “Business Pulse: Exploring the dual perspectives of the top 10 risks and opportunities in 2013 and beyond.” Whilst the OSS technologies remain more or less the same, the business imperatives for an OSS are quite […]
“Doesn’t this [NFV] pose a problem for organizations whose communications skill sets are all tied up in maintaining OSS? The two technologies are not compatible; NFV is designed to replace traditional OSS, not provide a comfortable transition path.” Scott M. Fulton, III on Fierce Enterprise Communications. I’d like to throw this over to you dear […]
“I first met him… at a dinner my mother had put together. On my way there, I thought, ‘Why would I want to meet this guy who picks stocks?’ I thought he just used various market-related things—like volume, or how the price had changed over time—to make his decisions. But when we started talking that […]
Clarity assets sold and subsequently placed into administration. Following an announcement to the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) on 24 June 2014 that Clarity OSS Limited and its secured creditor (CPS Group Investments Pty Ltd) had entered into an agreement to sell most of the Clarity Group’s assets to the Australian subsidiary of a US quoted […]
“If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth.” Timothy B. Tyson. There are two main categories of billing: Metering Charging In the case of metering, this is the measurement of actual usage of communication services. An example would be the flagfall upon setup of a telephone call and an additional cost per […]
“Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change – this is the rhythm of living.” Bruce Barton. I have a really left-field idea to run past you today. I’d love your thoughts about its feasibility (or lack of!). During a major incident (eg alarm storm, security attack, etc) your network health visualisation tools […]
“Children have more need of models than of critics.” Carolyn Coats. OSS covers a huge range of skills, activities, domains, business functions, etc. I’ve met some absolute geniuses in the field of OSS, but I’ve never met someone who is a genius at every aspect. As such, I’d like to tweak Carolyn Coats’s comments thus, […]
“Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.” Michael Korda. Working on OctopOSS projects can be a humbling experience. There are so many tentacles that can whack you and your colleagues over the back of the head. Every project seems to have its own tentacles. Sometimes […]
Elitecore bags 3 new orders from Multi Service Cable Operators, Deploys Integrated Real time Billing, Charging & Policy Control Solution. Elitecore Technologies, a leading provider of Integrated Policy, Charging, Billing and Revenue Management solution announces three Cable MSOs (Multi-System Operators) wins for Pay TV and Broadband services; setting up a strong footprint in Asia Pacific […]
“In the struggle between capital and labor, more often than not capital has won, because the real source of value for most companies has historically been the hard assets that they owned and controlled.” James Surowiecki. Yesterday we spoke of the different types of interface “objects” such as probes, robots, MDDs (Mediation Device Drivers), etc […]
Allstream Transforms Service Layer with NetCracker. NetCracker Technology announced that Allstream, Canada’s all-business communications provider, has agreed to transform its end-to-end order management and service fulfillment capabilities using its comprehensive next-gen innovative NetCracker 9 suite. Allstream is a Canadian leader in IP communications and the only national communications provider that works exclusively with business customers […]
NetBoss Technologies Announces Ventraq Acquisition. NetBoss Technologies, Inc. has announced that it has acquired the Ventraq Business Analytics (BIAS) technology assets, product portfolio and associated intellectual property, in addition to assuming the existing customer base, support, and maintenance responsibilities from Ventraq, Inc., an innovative provider of large-scale data integration, network and business analytics, and personalization […]
“I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces.” Daniel J. Bernstein. OSS don’t add much value in isolation. They need to get data from somewhere and then add value to that data to turn it into insight. Of course they get some […]
