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Case Studies

Prepaid Charging Is Graduating to a Starring Role in Interactive Services Exciting new developments are occurring in and envisioned for prepaid charging, platform charges required to support them will make the next generation prepaid a competitive necessity.

Order-to-Cash: Smaller Steps Take You Further The order-to-cash workflow is the heart of every telecom business; here it is argued that a surer route to success is a gradual, managed evolution that focuses of process (not network) are respects embedded value.

Economist Intelligence Unit: Opening Up - How R and D is changing in the telecommunications sector today Telecom firms need to embrace industry standards and create a partner ecosystem to create innovative new offerings. A robust BI/Analytics infrastructure is essential to accomplishing this.

An Open Policy Framework for Cross-vendor Integrated Governance: Intel SOA Expressway delivers a pluggable SOA governance policy framework based on XML policies and logs for open integration.

Delivering Superior Customer Value in Communications: Firms Enabling Optimal Offer Creation for Service Providers Communications service providers around the world are now facing increasing market saturation and having trouble differentiating their offerings - and deregulation is adding to the intensity of global competition.

SAP for Telecommunications - Deregulation, Globalization, Broadband, E-Business: Stay ahead of the game with SAP for telecommunications

Whitepapers

Communications Service Providers and Sybase: More than 250 operators are using Sybase technologies today to dramatically reduce the time to answer for complex network optimization problems such as traffic engineering, capacity planning and routing, reducing operating expenses and avoiding unnecessary capital expenditures.

Converged Network-IT Services Part 1: A Service Portfolio Production Strategy To Increase Service Provider Competitiveness

Converged Network-IT Services Part 2: Eight Rules for Building an Integrated Network-IT Service Production Portfolio Strategy

Automated Cloud Services Solution Delivers Speed, Flexibility: Parallels has collaborated with Microsoft to create an end-to-end cloud services solution to syndicate BPOS. By taking advantage of this solution, service providers can increase profits, attract and keep customers, reduce time-to-market, and realize greater agility and scalability.

HP Network Transformation Services: Enabling Network Transformation Success. Get the most from your technology investment and keep your network running at peak performance.

RoHS Compliance at Intel, a look at how Intel is leaps ahead with their telecom and compute products

Executive Content

Femtocells: Implementing a Better Business Model To Increase SP Profitability - Today, many cell phone customers experience poor signal quality at home. Moving from room to room to avoid missed words, dropped calls, or web timeouts is now a common occurrence

Melanie Posey - IDC and Parallels Automation According to Melanie Posey of IDC, Telcos need to start offering cloud services NOW. Watch a 5 minute video to see her interview with KPN and learn how KPN is innovating, optimizing, and growing its cloud services business with Parallels Automation.

Exploring the Cloud - In this podcast, Surendra Reddy, Former VP of Cloud Computing at Yahoo!, defines 'cloudonomics,' talks about cloud security, and explains why he believes companies should deconstruct their IT infrastructure and embrace cloud.

Head to Head: Bern Elliot and Keith Bromley Bern Elliot, VP Research, Gartner and Keith Bromley, Marketing Manager, NEC go head-to-head to discuss the business case behind Unified Business Communications