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Accenture Helps Telekom Malaysia Transform Its Delivery of Data Services to Enterprises. Accenture has helped Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM), the nation’s largest integrated communications solutions provider, transform its delivery of data services for enterprises with the implementation of support systems for TM’s Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network (IPVPN) capabilities. Leveraging Accenture’s systems integration capabilities, both […]
“Life is full of surprises and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns.” Condoleeza Rice. Product and Service Lifecycle Management (PSLM) can be a key differentiator* for competing CSPs. In turn, the […]
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Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Tail-f — Acquisition Advances Cisco’s Cloud Virtualization Portfolio with Industry-Leading Network Service Orchestration Technology. Cisco announced its intent to acquire privately held Tail-f Systems, a leader in multi-vendor network service orchestration solutions for traditional and virtualized networks. Tail-f’s products help service providers and enterprise IT organizations easily and cost-effectively implement […]
“While humans are not good at processing systems models, we are much better at analysing and designing them. This leads to a natural human-computer partnership.” Mark Zangari. In yesterday’s blog we discussed a lecture by Mark Zangari about Decision Support Systems (DSS). Mark’s quote above is a really interesting one in the context of CSP […]
“Unlike data, there is little mainstream computerised support for modelling and analysing systems.” Mark Zangari in his lecture to San Francisco Uni. As Mark Zangari points out, there are many different tools for assisting our brains to process data (who could’ve missed all the hype about Big Data tools for example or Business Intelligence or […]
“…if you are a mobile network operator today, shouldn’t you focus your energy on what is the largest and fastest growing service on your network, which happens to not be profitable? 85% of the video traffic is OTT and you get little revenue from that. You are struggling to deliver an acceptable video quality for […]
“The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.” Stephen Sondheim. I won’t for one moment try to convince you that there is a single right answer to your OSS puzzle like there is for crosswords as Stephen Sondheim suggests. Nothing could be further from the truth. There are […]
“We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.” Galileo Galilei. When you’re a network operator who is following a workflow to do a particular task, it’s quite likely that you’ll use one or more tools in a suite that includes OSS, BSS, NMS, EMS and more. Of the workflows […]
Sri Lanka Telecom Upgrades to NetCracker’s Digital Business Platform. NetCracker Technology announced that Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) has chosen to upgrade its existing NetCracker billing and mediation environment to NetCracker’s next-generation billing, rating and active mediation solutions. Sri Lanka Telecom is Sri Lanka’s national ICT solutions provider and leading broadband and backbone infrastructure service provider. […]
Sprint to Use ItsOn Smart Services Platform. ItsOn Inc. announced that Sprint will use the ItsOn Smart Services Platform to enhance Sprint’s mobile network capabilities and enable new types of mobile services. The multi-year agreement provides Sprint with the ability to design and implement granular service policy control for various data, text and voice services […]
“I can see paradise by the dashboard light.” Meatloaf. Whether it is dashboards, views or reports, there are two main styles: Canned – ie presentations of data that have been pre-configured by you or your application administrators Ad-hoc – ie presentations of data that you build on an as-needed basis And in the case of […]
“I’ve always believed there are moments in our lives which can be defined as a transition between the before and after, between the cause and the effect.” Benjamin X. Wretlind. Many of you will be familiar with the after-hours or overnight cutovers where you make changes to your organisation’s infrastructure (eg applications, servers, networks, etc) […]
Telefónica Selects Amdocs Products and Services for Quad-Play Transformation in Chile and Peru. Amdocs announced that Telefónica, one of the world’s leading service providers with more than 313 million customers across Latin America and Europe, has selected Amdocs for transformation projects in Chile and Peru. By modernizing and standardizing Telefónica’s business support systems (BSS) on […]
Zain Kuwait Selects IBM Social Software to Enhance Customer Digital Experience. IBM announced that Zain, the pioneer of mobile telecommunications in Kuwait, has chosen IBM’s social software to deliver deeper, more personalized experiences for its 2.5 million customers in the country. The IBM solution brings together Zain’s digital, mobile and social platforms to offer customers […]
“Big data is currently at the peak of the hype curve, and while service providers can collect more data than ever from many different sources they don’t always know what to do with it. Valuable insights are often missed simply because they aren’t asking the right questions of the right data to generate useful intelligence.” […]
“No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don’t fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.” Benjamin Carson. Over the years, I’ve seen many a customer put pressure on the vendor (ie sweat the vendor) to do tasks that aren’t […]
Huawei Launches OSS Solution independently from Managed Services. Huawei announced that its Operations Support System (OSS) solution is commercially available to all service providers. As the OSS was previously only available as part of Huawei’s Managed Services, the extended availability of the solution further strengthens Huawei’s service portfolio and the company’s position as a global […]
“APIs are everywhere today and can be a great building block of modern applications. But all too often APIs are not truly great. Rather than love your API, developers curse it.” John Musser in relation to this slide deck. Yesterday’s post was about the importance of having an API that’s easy to integrate with for […]
NetCracker Next-Generation Revenue Management Solution Rapidly Transforms BSS for Turk Telecom. NetCracker Technology announced that Turk Telecom has completed a major BSS transformation in just seven months utilizing NetCracker’s next-generation Revenue Management solution as its strategic platform for service enablement and systems consolidation. Turk Telecom is Turkey’s leading communications provider. This BSS transformation, supporting Turk […]
