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Hrvatski Telekom Selects Netcracker’s Billing Solution to Monetize Fixed-Mobile Converged Services. Netcracker Technology announced that Hrvatski Telekom (HT) in Croatia has selected the Netcracker Billing solution as one of the key platforms for its large-scale IT transformation. HT will use Netcracker’s solution and Consulting Services to commercialize and monetize its fixed-mobile convergence initiative. HT will […]
“Information overload is happening at all career levels. Companies restructure, and current staff absorb additional responsibilities, requiring new skills to be learned. Technology changes, and new systems, tools and processes need to be mastered. Markets change, and new strategies or client prospects or industry sectors need to be researched. To be successful in today’s times […]
When discussing yesterday’s post about increasing feedback loops in OSS, the technology gap on exponential technologies such as IoT, network virtualisation and machine learning reminded me of Geoffrey Moore’s “Crossing the Chasm” as shown in the graph below. In the context of the abovementioned technologies, the chasm isn’t represented by the adoption of a product (as per […]
“Amazon is making its Greengrass functional programming cloud-to-premises bridge available to all customers… This is an important signal to the market in the area of IoT, and also a potentially critical step in deciding whether edge (fog) computing or centralized cloud will drive cloud infrastructure evolution… The most compelling application for [Amazon] Lambda is event […]
“…don’t ask your customers what they like or don’t like about your product. Or what they’d change if they could. That’s all about you. If you want really insightful answers, ask them about themselves instead. You can find out a ton about you by asking them about them.” Jason Fried. We’ve previously discussed how the […]
Singapore has made some really innovative decisions over the years. Recent ones include tokenisation of the Singapore Dollar on cyber-currencies, investing heavily in international startups based in Singapore and the streamlining of identity management (which will undoubtedly help to get around one of the biggest blockers to self-on-boarding new customers onto comms networks, particularly mobile). […]
“It’s quite common, especially in enterprise technology, for something to propose a new way to solve an existing problem. It can’t be used to solve the problem in the old way, so ‘it doesn’t work’, and proposes a new way, and so ‘no-one will want that’. This is how generational shifts work – first you […]
Tigo and Ericsson launch Business Support System (BSS) as a service in Rwanda. Tigo Rwanda has partnered with Ericsson to completely overhaul its Business Support System (BSS) ecosystem. Tigo Rwanda is the first operator across the Millicom group that has transformed its BSS operations and gone live with Ericsson’s ‘as a Service’ model for its […]
“It is unquestionably true that many of the most important technology advances looked like toys at first – the web, mobile phones, PCs, aircraft, cars and even hot and cold running water at one stage looked like faddish toys for the rich or the young. Even video games, which literally are toys, are also largely […]
“Brainstorms inside the company are useful but not as efficient as stepping outside and checking out the world around you. A lot of companies talk about innovation strategy. I always laugh when I hear that. In this rapidly changing world you cannot talk about innovation strategy anymore. That implies some sort of planning or forecasting […]
When it comes to data stakeholders (people / processes / systems / interfaces / etc), I like to think of them in five categories: Creators – The primary data creation / collection source, which could be people or machines Ingestors – The stakeholders that take the source data and compile it into a repository such […]
Colt Selects NEC and Netcracker to Enhance its Network and Optimize for Virtualization. NEC Corporation and Netcracker Technology announced that Colt has selected them to enable and support its large-scale OSS transformation, which will support Colt in the deployment of the next generation of its infrastructure, including virtualization. Colt will leverage Netcracker’s future-proof, next-generation OSS […]
As we all know, an heirloom is an item that is passed from generation to generation. In the world of OSS, there are a lot of heirloom tools out in the wild. Their long-since-departed* sponsors / builders have ensured their legacy survives with the tools they have built. In the traditional context (eg jewelry, furniture, […]
OSS doesn’t seem to be a very enticing career for women unfortunately. Over all my years of OSS projects, I can’t think of any where women outnumbered the men. However, my OSS projects have been interspersed with a variety of other projects where women have dominated the team numbers. Looking back, there’s almost perfect correlation […]
“Mike Flint was Warren Buffett’s personal airplane pilot for 10 years. (Flint has also flown four US Presidents, so I think we can safely say he is good at his job.) According to Flint, he was talking about his career priorities with Buffett when his boss asked the pilot to go through a 3-step exercise. […]
AIS Upgrades to Netcracker’s Revenue Management Solution to Optimize Customer Experience. Netcracker Technology announced that Advanced Info Service Public Company Limited (AIS) is upgrading to Netcracker 12 to deliver a better digital customer experience and meet myriad internal business objectives. As part of the engagement, AIS has also extended its use of Netcracker’s Professional Services […]
“I should say… that in the real world exponential curves don’t continue for ever. We get S-curves which closely mimic exponential curves in the beginning, but then tail off after a while often as new technologies hit physical limits which prevent further progress. What seems to happen in practice is that some new technology emerges […]
Comptel Has Received Significant Order from Saudi Arabian Customer. Comptel has received a significant order from a Saudi Arabian customer. The deal is a continuation of a long business relationship between the parties. The value of the contract is approximately 4.9 M euros covering services for Comptel FlowOne Fulfillment, Comptel Data Refinery and Comptel Fastermind […]
Comptel has won a new customer in Australia. Comptel has won a new customer in Australia. The deal includes a proof of concept for Comptel’s FlowOne Fulfillment suite.
I’m a die-hard sports fan, as a player and watcher, so I find it interesting how parallels are drawn between work and sport – in particular, that “you practice as you play.” Alternatively, it’s implied that if you practice sloppy, you play sloppy. But if we look at a professional athlete that dedicates 40 hours […]
