Day 1 of the SDP Global Summit kicked off with an impressive line-up of operator case studies from Michel Burger of Vodafone, Medhat Amer of Mobily, Mohammed Aldhwaiyan of STC and Mario Domingo of Globe. Common themes to their success include: SDP is not a product, it’s a project covering people, processes and technology (an […]
I will not be involved in this conference for the reasons set out in this weblog article. I’ve been asked to chair the African Service Provider IT (AspIT) Conference and Exhibition in March of 2012. Its looks like its going to be a unique and interesting conference. Its definitely reflecting the frustrations and issues I’m […]
TM Forum was founded in 1988 by BT and AT&T, they had created similar support system architectures, see the BT Tile Architecture shown below. Now this architecture was created nearly 30 years ago so its understandable why it suffers from the classic ‘Bell-head’ ‘box and wire’ design. The TM Forum today brings together members (700 […]
We hear Business Transformation (BT) mentioned by many vendors and consultants when they’re selling their products and services. It closely echos the messaging of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) transformation of the past decade; and given the challenges we’ve seen in realizing those benefits, it’s fair to consider it in some ways a re-branding. Or you […]
A previous article set out the litany of excuses given as to why communication innovation has stopped in operators; and we’re working through how those excuses can be solved, avoided, or ignored. This article expands a little more on the excuse: “We can only focus on 4 service launches per year (because we only back […]
Its one of those trends we know is there. Its been there for decades. However, because the trend is constant it gets ignored, its a bit like boiling frog syndrome – ignoring the small changes until its too late and you’re cooked. The trend is the ITization of telecoms. Within the telecoms industry we like […]
This article provides a summary of Day Two of Informa’s SDP Asia conference in Singapore on the 27th November. Day One summary is covered in this article. Overall Summary Another day dominated by operator SDP presentations, demonstrating the maturity of content based SDPs, some of the challenges in evolving those SDPs, and the emergence of […]
This article provides a brief summary on Day One of Informa’s SDP Asia conference in Singapore on the 26th November. A preview of the conference was given in this article. With 70 registered attendees and about 55 attendees in the room on Day One, APAC is bucking the trend in conference attendance by showing solid […]
I would like to thank Jeroen Visser from BT for his suggestion of this article to explain SOA, SDP and IMS; and then explain how they fit together. Service Oriented Architecture Defined SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) has emerged as a successful integration framework for BOSS (Business and Operational Support Systems) within operators. We are now […]
Summarizing day two of SofNet. Panel session, “How Can 21CN Help Make Customers Successful?” was a who’s who on UK telecom executives with John Cunliffe, Ericsson; John Frieslaar, Huawei; Geoff Hall, Nortel; John-Paul Hemingway, Ciena; Phil Dance, BT; David Soldani, NSN; Andy Stevenson, Fujitsu; and Phil Tilley, ALU. With so many suppliers in such a […]