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VIVACOM Goes Live with NetCracker

VIVACOM Goes Live with NetCracker Convergent Revenue Management Solution. NetCracker Technology announced that VIVACOM, a leading quad-play communications service provider in Bulgaria, has gone live with an upgrade to the NetCracker Revenue Management solution. The NetCracker platform enables convergence of VIVACOM’s rating, billing and charging operations across all lines of business. VIVACOM is the largest communications service provider in Bulgaria, providing fixed-line, mobile, broadband and pay-TV…

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04/06/2015 No Comments

Andorra Telecom goes live with NetCracker

NetCracker’s Visionary Transformation Goes Into Production at Andorra Telecom. NetCracker Technology announced that Andorra Telecom, the national telecommunications operator for the Principality of Andorra, has deployed NetCracker’s end-to-end, fully integrated solutions as part of a massive BSS/OSS transformation. Andorra Telecom has been a longtime NetCracker billing customer, and selected to update and expand its existing NetCracker platform to the entire NetCracker BSS/OSS suite. Andorra Telecom provides…

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04/06/2015 No Comments

Minimum Viable Data (MVD)

"A core component of Lean Startup methodology is the build-measure-learn feedback loop. The first step is figuring out the problem that needs to be solved and then developing a minimum viable product (MVP) to begin the process of learning as quickly as possible. Once the MVP is established, a startup can work on tuning the engine. This will involve measurement and learning and must include actionable…

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04/06/2015 No Comments

OSS vendor selection dilemmas

"Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better." Sydney J. Harris. There are many dilemmas facing the organisation that is attempting to select a new OSS vendor, including: The need to change vs the difficulties in changing [the devil you know or the devil you don't??]…

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03/06/2015 No Comments

IoT equals lower ARPU?

"Surprisingly though, wireless providers themselves are one of the largest hurdles for advancing IoT, with many resisting adding connectivity to new devices due to fears of lower APRU metrics. CSPs must band together and embrace future innovation before competition edges them out. Perhaps creating an IoT MVNO is the transition necessary for addressing lower ARPU, while still fostering the innovation necessary to drive these new revenues."…

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02/06/2015 No Comments

TM Forum Live begins today

"Your opportunity to connect with the ‘who’s who’ of the digital ecosystem and take away actionable best practices that will inspire and shape your professional and personal success!" www.tmforumlive.org @tmforumorg Today marks the start of TM Forum Live 2015 in Nice, France. Leave us a comment if you're going to be there and let us know what you're most looking forward to seeing.

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01/06/2015 2 Comments

CA Technologies to acquire Rally Software

CA Technologies Agrees to Acquire Rally Software, Accelerates Ability for Businesses to Build Transformative Applications Quickly. CA Technologies announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Rally Software Development Corp., a leading provider of Agile development software and services, for $19.50 per share, which equates to approximately $480 million, net of cash acquired. The transaction has been unanimously approved by both Boards of Directors, and…

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29/05/2015 No Comments

Bridging the OSS chasm

"You don't need to be better. You need to be different." Chase Jarvis. PassionateAboutOSS.com and my book came into existence due to a distinct gap in the OSS market that I'd noticed again and again whilst on customer assignments. As represented in the diagram below, there was a major disconnect between the Technology Context and the Business Context as it related to OSS people, projects, processes,…

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29/05/2015 No Comments

15 Predictive analytics campaigns

"Ideally, analytics-driven telcos must have predictive analytics embedded in all their business processes, thereby moving away from decisions based on gut feeling or intuition. [The Figure below] illustrates the four phases of a telco customer life cycle - Acquisition, Relationship, Retention and Win-back. Each phase can have several embedded analytical models, which can enhance operations considerably and provide a strategic advantage." Mahendran K from a white paper on TCS.com This…

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28/05/2015 No Comments

EMC buys Virtustream

EMC expands cloud push with $1.2 billion buy of Virtustream (including Cloud Management Platform [CMP] xStream). Source: Fortune.com. Joe Tucci is at it again. The longtime EMC chief executive and chairman has made another purchase, buying Virtustream, an enterprise-oriented cloud computing company, for $1.2 billion in cash. This move follows EMC’s late 2014 acquisition of Cloudscaling and its OpenStack-based private cloud expertise. Virtustream is focused on…

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27/05/2015 No Comments

Is the innovation engine broken?

"Consider as a marker the speed of travel. It improved dramatically through the late 19th and early 20th centuries with major innovations such as trains, automobiles, airplanes, jet engines and rockets. But the big advances came to an end in the 1970s. Movement by car now is no faster than it was then – indeed it is often slower. We can fly from London to New…

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26/05/2015 2 Comments

But do you want to get better?

"But do you want to get better? It seems like a stupid question. Of course we want our organization, our work and our health to improve. But often, we don't. Better means change and change means risk and risk means fear... There are countless ways to listen, to engage with users, to learn and to improve, but before you or your organization waste time on any…

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25/05/2015 No Comments

Alcatel-Lucent launches new SDN platform

Alcatel-Lucent launches major new SDN platform. From telecoms.com. French networking company Alcatel-Lucent has unveiled its Network Services Platform (NSP), a unified, SDN-based carrier solution designed to unify service automation and network optimization. The launch of NSP marks a major milestone for A-Lu and is a strong statement ahead of its impending acquisition by Nokia. It is embracing the new, software-defined, era of network management and delivering…

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24/05/2015 No Comments

Hard!

"With more success comes greater problems along with greater ability to solve them." Mark Victor Hansen. Paul Graham's essays are a great read. There is something unique about the way he views his subject matter (usually startups) and then has the ability to break it down into highly insightful chunks of wisdom for his readers to learn from. For example, so much of Paul's essay entitled…

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22/05/2015 No Comments

Comptel wins new customer in the Philippines

Comptel Has Won New Customer in the Philippines for FlowOne Fulfillment. Comptel has won a new customer in the Philippines for FlowOne Fulfillment. The deal consists of FlowOne Fulfillment SoftBlade licenses and related services. The value of this multi-year deal exceeds 3,1 million EUR. According to Comptel´s recently updated strategy, the Philippines is one of the strategically important growth markets for the company.

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21/05/2015 No Comments

Comptel wins first Integrated Analytics Solution deal

Comptel Has Won First Deal for New Integrated Analytics Solution, the Operational Intelligence SoftBlade. Comptel has won the first deal for the new integrated analytics solution, the Operational Intelligence SoftBlade. This strategically important deal with Telefonica Argentina Movistar demonstrates the value of the Data Fastermind analytics embedded to the customer's existing Data Refinery and EventLink technology platform. The deal consist of software licenses and related services…

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21/05/2015 No Comments

Comverse chosen by JT Group

Comverse Chosen by JT Group Ltd (formerly Jersey Telecom) to Provide Managed Services. Comverse to Manage Converged BSS Operational Systems for Leading Channel Islands Fixed and Mobile Telecommunication Services Provider. Comverse announced that JT Group Ltd. (www.jtglobal.com), the Channel Islands' leading telecommunications company, selected Comverse to provide managed services for its converged billing solution. During the five-year managed services agreement, Comverse professionals located in Jersey and…

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21/05/2015 No Comments

C Spire Goes Live with NetCracker

C Spire Goes Live with NetCracker Converged Billing. NetCracker Technology announced that C Spire’s wireless unit has gone live with NetCracker’s converged billing and active mediation solutions to support both pre-paid and post-paid wireless services on a single rating and billing platform. C Spire, a diversified telecommunications and technology services company, operates the United States’ largest privately held wireless communications unit and is based in Ridgeland,…

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21/05/2015 No Comments

Automating the Work of Hundreds

"Today, the FBAR service [Facebook Auto-Remediation] is developed and maintained by two full time engineers, but according to the most recent metrics, it’s doing the work of approximately 200 full time system administrators. FBAR now manages more than 50% of the Facebook infrastructure and we’ve found that services have dramatic increases in reliability when they go under FBAR control. Recently, we've opened up development of remediation…

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21/05/2015 No Comments

The Southwest Airlines analogy

"The airline industry is notoriously brutal. As Warren Buffett once wrote in a letter to shareholders, “[I]f a farsighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down.” Yet Southwest Airlines just recorded its 39th consecutive year of profitability—in a business sector where profits can be excruciatingly tough to come by. How does Southwest do…

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20/05/2015 No Comments

Telefonica selects Amdocs for an Operational Data Store

Telefónica Selects Amdocs for an Operational Data Store Solution in Chile and Peru to Consolidate Data Access and Speed Decision-Making. Amdocs announced that Telefónica, one of the world's leading service providers with 341 million customers across Latin America and Europe, has selected Amdocs data management services for an operational data store solution at its operations in Chile and Peru. Amdocs' data management services is one component…

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19/05/2015 No Comments