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AED-SICAD acquires the Dynamic Design

AED-SICAD acquires the Dynamic Design Group. AED-SICAD GmbH has recently acquired all shares of the Dynamic Design Group. Dynamic Design develops, sells, implements and maintains software solutions for the planning and management of telecommunications networks. With its ConnectMaster product family, the company complements the existing business of AED-SICAD, whose technology focuses on information systems and software solutions for the management and operation of distribution networks in…

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28/02/2019 No Comments

Telefónica UK selects Netcracker

Telefónica UK Selects Netcracker’s End-to-End BSS/OSS Suite. NEC Corporation and Netcracker Technology have signed an agreement to partner with Telefónica UK to implement Netcracker’s end-to-end BSS/OSS suite. The partnership further expands Netcracker’s global, strategic relationship with Telefónica and underscores Netcracker’s continued market leadership in BSS and OSS. Telefónica UK will use Netcracker’s comprehensive BSS/OSS suite comprising its Revenue Management, Customer Management and Operations Management solutions. In…

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27/02/2019 No Comments

Ericsson and Airtel to build AI use cases for Network Operations

Ericsson and Airtel to further build real-world AI use cases for Network Operations. Ericsson and Bharti Airtel ("Airtel"), India's leading telecom services provider, announced their collaboration for building intelligent and predictive network operations. Leveraging on its developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation, Ericsson will support Airtel to proactively address network complexity and boost user experience. Combining deep domain expertise with advanced technologies like AI and…

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27/02/2019 No Comments

Telecom Egypt and Ericsson apply AI

Telecom Egypt and Ericsson apply Artificial Intelligence to operate telco cloud. Telecom Egypt and Ericsson completed the successful deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to its full-stack telco cloud infrastructure. The objective is to operate telco cloud environment intelligently and efficiently to enable cloud Automation and orchestration. The telecom industry is moving into cloud automation especially with introduction of Cloud Native in 5G. Artificial Intelligence assets provide…

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27/02/2019 No Comments

The OSS Tinder effect

On Friday, we provided a link to an inspiring video showing Rolls-Royce's vision of an operations centre. That article is a follow-on from other recent posts about to pros and cons of using MVPs (Minimum Viable Products) as an OSS transformation approach. I've been lucky to work on massive OSS projects. Projects that have taken months / years of hard implementation grind to deliver an OSS…

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26/02/2019 No Comments

Proving you’re the best of the best at OSS

Way back in 2015, the PAOSS blog proposed the idea of an OSS Olympics to help identify the best OSS'ers in the world. It suggested the following 10 events (noting that operators can use tools of their own choosing): Order handling - set up a particular type of order, with complexities, and see who can generate the order the fastest into a pseudo-BSS order repository Service configuration and activation -…

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25/02/2019 2 Comments

Telefónica Movistar México selects Ericsson for CX

Telefónica Movistar México selects Ericsson Expert Analytics to enhance customer experience. Ericsson has been selected by Telefónica Movistar México, a subsidiary of Telefónica South America, to deploy the Service Operation Center (SOC) platform to enhance subscribers’ experience through Ericsson Expert Analytics. The new SOC platform, based on Ericsson’s solution, will be deployed to gain visibility of Telefónica Movistar México’s service operations, quality, and end-customer experience. This…

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24/02/2019 No Comments

The Rolls Royce vision of OSS

Yesterday's post mentioned the importance of setting a future vision as part of your MVP delivery strategy. As Steve Blank said here, "Founders act like the “minimum” part is the goal. Or worse, that every potential customer should want it. In the real world not every customer is going to get overly excited about your minimum feature set...You’re selling the vision and delivering the minimum feature set…

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21/02/2019 No Comments

The OSS Minimum Feature Set is Not The Goal

"This minimum feature set (sometimes called the “minimum viable product”) causes lots of confusion. Founders act like the “minimum” part is the goal. Or worse, that every potential customer should want it. In the real world not every customer is going to get overly excited about your minimum feature set. Only a special subset of customers will and what gets them breathing heavy is the long-term…

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20/02/2019 No Comments

The layers of ITIL redundancy

Today's is something of a heretical post, especially for the believers in ITIL. In the world of OSS, we look to build in layers of resiliency and not layers of redundancy. The following diagram and subsequent text in italics describes a typical ITIL process and is all taken from https://www.computereconomics.com/article.cfm?id=1074 The sequence of events as shown in Figure 1 is as follows: At TIME = 0, an…

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19/02/2019 No Comments

Of OSS bosses and teachers

"We need more teachers and less bosses." Lee Cockerell. The quote from Lee could be bordering on condescending to some people. Hmmm.... Sorry about that. But let me ask you a couple of questions: Of all your years in OSS (or in industry in general), who are the 5 people who have been the most valuable to you (and your customers)? Of those 5 people, which…

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18/02/2019 No Comments

An OSS theatre of combat

Have you sat on both sides of the OSS procurement process? That is, been an OSS buyer (eg writing an RFP) and an OSS seller (eg responded to an RFP) on separate projects? Have you noticed the amount of brain-power allocated to transferral of risk from both angles? If you're the buyer, you seek to transfer risk to the seller through clever RFP clauses. If you're…

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14/02/2019 No Comments

OSS transformation is hard. What can we learn from open source?

Have you noticed an increasing presence of open-source tools in your OSS recently? Have you also noticed that open-source is helping to trigger transformation? Have you thought about why that might be? Some might rightly argue that it is the cost factor. You could also claim that they tend to help resolve specific, but common, problems. They're smaller and modular. I'd argue that the reason relates…

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13/02/2019 No Comments

I have the need for OSS speed

You already know that speed is important for OSS users. They / we don't want to wait for minutes for the OSS to respond to a simple query. That's obvious right? The bleeding obvious. But that's not what today's post is about. So then, what is it about? Actually, it follows on from yesterday's post about re-framing of OSS transformation.  If a parallel pilot OSS can…

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12/02/2019 No Comments

Re-framing an OSS replacement strategy

Friday's post posed a re-framing exercise that asked you (whether customer, seller or integrator) to run a planning exercise as if you MUST offer a money-back guarantee on your OSS (whether internal or external). It's designed to force a change in mindset from risk mitigation to risk removal. We have another re-framing exercise for you today. As we all know, incumbent OSS can be really difficult…

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11/02/2019 No Comments

What’s the one big factor holding back your OSS? And the exercise to reduce it

We've talked about some of the emotions we experience in the OSS industry earlier this week, the trauma of OSS and anxiety relating to OSS. To avoid these types of miserable feelings, it's human nature to seek to limit them. We over-analyse, we over-specify, we over-engineer, we over-document, we over-contract, we over-react, we over-estimate (nah, actually we almost never over-estimate do we?), we over-resource (well, actually,…

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08/02/2019 No Comments

Identifying the fault-lines that trigger OSS churn

"Most people slog through their days in a dark funk. They almost never get to do anything interesting or go to interesting places or meet interesting people. They are ignored by marketers who want them to buy their overpriced junk and be grateful for it. They feel disrespected, unappreciated and taken for granted. Nobody wants to take the time to listen to their fears, dreams, hopes…

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07/02/2019 No Comments

Addressing the trauma of OSS

"You also have to understand their level of trauma. Your product, service or information is selling a solution to someone who is in trauma. There are different levels, from someone who needs a nail to finish the swing set in their backyard to someone who just found out they have a life-threatening disease. All of your customers had something happen in their life, where the problem…

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06/02/2019 No Comments

The TMN model suffers from modern network anxiety

As the TMN diagram below describes, each layer up in the network management stack abstracts but connects (as described in more detail in “What an OSS shouldn’t do“). That is, each higher layer reduces the amount if information/control within a domain that it’s responsible for, but it assumes a broader responsibility for connecting multiple domains together. There's just one problem with the diagram. It's a little dated when we take…

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05/02/2019 No Comments

OSS data that’s even more useless than useless

About 6-8 years ago, I was becoming achingly aware that I'd passed well beyond an information overload (I-O) threshold. More information was reaching my brain each day than I was able to assimilate, process and archive. What to do? Well, I decided to stop reading newspapers and watching the news, in fact almost all television. I figured that those information sources were empty calories for the…

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04/02/2019 No Comments

Comarch supports creation of the IoT Ecosystem for SCSK

Comarch Supports Creation of the IoT Ecosystem for Japanese Enterprises on Behalf of SCSK. The SCSK Corporation, one of the largest system integrators in Japan, has chosen Comarch as a partner to enrich its portfolio with IoT device management and monetization capabilities. Comarch will deliver elements of its IoT ecosystem offer, and related solutions, in order to accelerate SCSK’s Internet of Things’ business in Japan. SCSK…

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01/02/2019 No Comments