| 9:30am Coffee and Registration
10:00am Industry Developments and TM Forum
Neil Heyes, Membership Development, TM Forum
Hear about the latest industry developments facing service providers and suppliers in Russia and CIS, how best to maintain flexibility and agility to deal with the current situation as well as future growth and transition, and the role TM Forum plays in assisting with your critical business transformation. This presentation provides an introduction to the TM Forum, an assessment of the issues facing our members, our value proposition, and how to take advantage of it.
10.40 Impact of TAM on Vendor-Service Provider Relationships, Albert Efimov, Director of IT Strategy and Business Analysis, MTS
This presentation is dedicated to usage of TAM 3.2 framework as a specific tool to align telco' strategy with vendors' roadmaps of different applications. There are some advantages and disadvantages of such formal approach which will be explored during the presentation.
11.10 Coffee Break
11.40 Case Study - Enterprise Product Management
Ernest Margitta, Marketing Director,Tribold
Ernest will be presenting a current case study from Tribold's North American practice. The Customer, a tier-1 CSP in the enterprise market, faced the following business challenges: - High cycle time of products/service introduction (or modification)
- Lack of enablement for Product Managers to manager products themselves
- High costs of product/service introduction ( or modification)
- High defect rate of product/service introduction (or modification)
- Lenghly cycle time and cost of creating product bundles
- Lengthy cycle time and cost of offering 3rd party products/services
To solve these challenges the customer embarked on a Product Information Management (PIM) program to leverage standard definitions of products and services, aligned with TM Forum SID, deployed across a revised PLM, aligned with TM Forum eTOM process model. The PIM architecture integrates directly to existing OSS/BSS to radically reduce costs and associated cycle time by up to 75%.
12.10 Impact of high speed mobile internet access and Always-On concept on telecom operator business
Igor Torgov, CEO Yota RussiaAs the world is progressing rapidly towards implementation of LTE, operators should concentrate on impact that it makes on their business model and prepare themselves and their IT systems for changes. This presentation will unveil some lessons learned by Mobile WiMax operator and will highlight shifts of focus in BSS requirements caused by business transformation.
12.40 Lunch sponsored by Oracle
Alexey Lapirov, Communications Sales Director, Oracle Russia
1.40 The implementation of Service Level Agreement (SLA) for the Virtual Private Network (VPN) on the operator's net. technical aspects
Victor Perov, Director, Strategic Development Department, Comstar UTS
2.10 Impact Interactive Debate: Understanding how Service Providers are adopting to the changing conditions of the CIS market
This session has been specifically designed so you can actively engage in discussions of key issues affecting the Russian and CIS telecoms and communication industry.
• Examining the growing trend to offer commercial content and differentiate on the number and quality of services offered
• Investigating the impact this has on both SPs and their vendors
Participation includes Aleksandr Zhdankin, Chair of the Tooling Program, TM Forum, Vladimir Kulak, Chief IT Architect, OJSC VimpelCom and Rufat Mursalov, Quality Manager, Azerfo and Andrey Belevtsev, CEO, Roox
3pm Close of Conference and Drinks reception sponsored by Oracle
Alexey Lapirov, Communications Sales Director, Oracle Russia |