OSS are tools that help to make lives easier for CSP users and their customers. Here I present ideas for new OSS tools or innovations
When I was at uni, there was a stall that had graffiti on the wall that was quite similar to the diagram above – words to the effect of “Arts degree – please take one.” It showed the disdain that some students obviously felt for the worth of an arts degree. Back then, this sentiment […]
“By now, most people know who Google is and what Google does. Google serves billions of online users in this country and around the world … With little or no revenue from its users, Google still manages to turn a healthy profit by selling advertisements within its products that rely in substantial part on users’ […]
“SMSes and push notifications have eight times higher response rates from consumers compared to emails. Thus, sending relevant and targeted push notifications would not only have higher response rates for the brand but also improve the shopping experience for the customer.” Nameet Potnis. It’s been a bit of a “marketing” week here on PAOSS. The […]
“If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment [ed. unless it’s a marketing experiment 😉 ].” Ernest Rutherford. Assuming that yesterday’s hypothesis was correct and many of a CSP’s customers are looking for data to identify marketing opportunities, what valuable service can we make of that? Government-based Bureaus of Statistics […]
“One of the messages at the keynote included the fact that successful busineses now have a ratio of 4:1 in the marketing and sales. This means that to maximize company growth and sales, successful companies engage about four marketing specialists to one sales person. The traditional role of the Business Development Manager or Sales Manager is […]
“Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.” Wayne Dyer. Have you noticed that in many developed countries, CSP services have recently flipped from scarcity to abundance situations? Bandwidth, storage, compute, applications, content, etc all saw premiums in the past because demand outweighed restrictions in supply. But in recent times, this […]
“C-Ports (pronounced seaports), as we call it, has already been demonstrated to effectively deploy containers across 5 clouds (Bluemix, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Chameleon , and FutureSystems and 2 clusters (one at IBM and another at Rutgers University) in order to create a dynamic federation. Additionally, C-Ports is not tied to a specific container scheduler, […]
“…numbers from comScore showing that while 60 percent of retail browsing happens on mobile devices, those devices only account for 15 percent of dollars spent. “The experiences on mobile haven’t caught up with the consumer demand,” he said. “The consumer is ready to do commerce on mobile.”” Anthony Ha here on TechCrunch. These fascinating stats […]
“It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.” Isaac Asimov. Last week I brought some of Tom Nolle’s ideas to your attention […]
“All the scientist creates in a fact is the language in which he enunciates it. If he predicts a fact, he will employ this language, and for all those who can speak and understand it, his prediction is free from ambiguity..” Henri Poincaré. As an OSS consultant, I succeed or fail partly on my ability […]
“Oracle wanted Maxymiser because of a big trend going on at big companies. Chief Marketing Officers now command huge budgets for tech and software. By 2017, CMOs are expected to outspend CTOs on tech, so software companies like Oracle, Salesforce, Adobe are going after this market with a vengeance.” Julie Bort on Business Insider. How […]
“If it’s small and reversible then it’s an experiment. If not, it’s a commitment.” Author unknown but revered. With our traditional, monolithic OSS there don’t tend to be many changes that are small and reversible unless you are controlling the code and its development. We always seem to do things on a grand scale! We […]
“My other observation is that in most cases one side of the [supply and demand] marketplace comes much more easily than the other. On Lexoo supply comes more easily whereas on Appear Here, a marketplace for short term lets on the High Street demand is the easier side. The trick then is to build the […]
“This Network Intent Composition project will enable the controller to manage and direct network services and network resources based on describing the “Intent” for network behaviors and network policies. Intents are described to the controller through a new NorthBound Interface, which provides generalized and abstracted policy semantics instead of Openflow-like flow rules. The Intent based […]
“I generally look at Google as a vast machine learning engine that’s been stuffed with data for a decade and a half. Everything that Google does is about reach for that underlying engine – reach to get data in and reach to surface it out. The legacy web search is just one expression of that, […]
“Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.” Marilyn Ferguson. lt’s an exciting time for spatially-based OSS. The tools that underpin them such as GIS and CAD have moved off the desktop and onto […]
“They (OSS) CAN allow a CSP to be more nimble. They CAN allow a CSP to deliver business insights to customers in real-time. They CAN add significant value to a CSP’s customers. But for any number of reasons, the OSS that most telcos implement AREN’T nimble, insightful or small-business enablers.” In yesterday’s blog on “Peak […]
When it comes to the industry of CSP (Communication Service Provision), success has always followed the organisations that enabled small business (and residential, corporate, government, etc too for that matter) to harness the power of the network effect. The invention of telephony, followed shortly thereafter by telephone networks, enabled telcos to ride the network effect […]
“Everyone is familiar with a technology that can be useful for the verification of messages in SDN and NFV, but not in the form they’d expect. Bitcoin uses what’s called “block chaining” or (as one word) “blockchain” to keep a tamper-proof history of something. One could apply blockchain principles to SDN and NFV interfaces or […]
“Income follows assets“ Daniel Priestley. In OSS-world what are our biggest assets? Apart from your customers, what are your biggest OSS assets? Products? Services? People? Intellectual Property? To put this another way, what is it that underpins your strongest revenue streams? If you’re a product vendor then it’s probably your products. lf you’re an integrator, […]
