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Virtual Management World 2009
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For the first time ever, the entirety of this year’s Management World conference was captured on video. All of the videos are now available via Virtual Management World . l The Virtual Management World is a great resource for our attendees, who gain free access, and also for all non-attendees who can purchase the pass for a fee. Visit the Virtual Management World home page for instructions and fee information.
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Management World 2009 proved to be another success with 2,800 attendees from Information, Communications and Entertainment Companies, 51% of which were Executives and Senior Managers and 36% of delegates from a service provider company. Click here to view photos from the conference. Make sure you check out all the morning keynote sessions. Sanjiv Ahuja , Chairman , Augere & Former CEO , Orange Group Rory Sutherland , Vice Chairman , Ogilvy Group Marc Davis , Chief Scientist & VP of ESP ,...
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In case you haven't heard, the Defense Interest Group is hosting a Security Management Workshop at Management World Nice. The workshop is being held on Tuesday, May 5th, from 1-4:30, and is open to any TM Forum member who is interested in advancing security within the NGOSS Solutions Frameworks. We aim to develop objectives and plans during the workshop, and will advance this topic during Team Action Week, Baltimore, MD, June 22nd - 26th. The workshop agenda is posted on the Defense Management...
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Consolidation can be a good thing in the telecommunications industry – whether you’re a service provider or equipment maker. New combinations like Sprint-Nextel, AT&T-SBC, Verizon-MCI, Lucent-Alcatel and Siemens-Nokia can soak up damaging overcapacity and enhance technological synergies. But these partnerships have a great deal more potential and can unlock huge value that goes beyond mere cost savings. Bottom-line efficiencies are just the beginning; they are necessary, yet not sufficient...
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For many years those of us working in the TM Forum's Collaboration program have been striving to achieve low cost integration, and some have set their sights even further on plug and play integration. While it is true that our Solution Frameworks (NGOSS) and Interface Program (TIP) have made huge progress towards reducing the dreaded integration tax, I don't think that anyone would claim to have yet achieved the utopia of plug and play. But another major step forward may be close! An activity...
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Many service providers have chosen to walk away from Revenue Recovery opportunities due to the sheer volume of accounts that need to be corrected coupled with resource constraints. To "clean-up" customers who have been incorrectly billed for a period of time, service providers need to give careful consideration to a number of different areas including, but not limited to: What is the customer's current status - have they had activity that nullifies the clean-up plans? What kind of notice...
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One truism about today's IP networks is that complexity is growing. Given this, a key question that should be asked by managers responsible for large IP networks is whether their network management is keeping pace with network complexity. In too many cases, the answer is no. Most network management tools only understand the network in discrete, device-level pieces, and "end-to-end" performance management tools don't really look at network behavior, rather they monitor the symptomatic...
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Lucia Gradinariu, Founder, Principal Contact of LGG Solutions will be on the Panel: Why is a Service Delivery Framework needed and by whom? on Wednesday, May 6th. As a Service Provider you are confused with marketing materials that mix and switch these terms. Look, big suppliers such as Nokia Siemens Networks offer a Service Delivery Framework and so does Wipro’s Service Layer consulting, Oracle offers an SDP, while Alcatel-Lucent, a comprehensive Service Delivery Environment. So let’s...
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Some of us have begun to shy away from using the term “architecture”. It is often viewed as something that is too big, cumbersome, and nearly impossible to implement. But if we view architectures as blueprints to guide us in progressively moving towards service-orientation over a series of evolutionary phases, these challenges can be overcome. So, where are these blueprints found? They are staring right at us in the form of our Solution Frameworks (NGOSS). Their basic structures support...
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I was recently honored to be the keynote speaker at the TM Forum’s meeting in Orlando, Florida this past November. Since then many of you have contacted me regarding the central point of my message. In my presentation we made the following points: The marketplace has changed and the rate of change is accelerating. We are unable to keep pace with the rate of change today let alone over the next 15 years. The root cause or our lack of agility is a lack of software interoperability in our systems...
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