Insights Business Intelligence Reports

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Insights Business Intelligence Report
Billing Evolution: The Lynchpin of Revenue Growth
Billing Evolution: The Lynch Pin of Revenue GrowthThe changing service environment in the new economic reality has created dynamic pressures on the billing systems of global communications service providers (CSPs.)
 
Written by Tonia Graham the latest report to emerge from TM Forums business benchmarking program focuses on the drivers and challenges surrounding the evolution of revenue management.
 
Featuring a virtual panel discussion involving leading billing vendors: read about predictions and drivers for billing systems, as well as CSP thought leaders opinions on current billing issues and future directions. The report also includes revenue growth projections as seen in the recent Insights Business Intelligence report: The Customer Is Still King and current performance data from the recent Billing Performance Benchmark study.
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The Customer Is Still King
Customer is Still KingTM Forum Business Benchmarking and industry research specialist, Hot Telecom, examine real-world information from the global industry as well as the 160 CSP benchmarking participants, to help evaluate potential growth areas, as well as areas of attrition and loss.

CSPs get the facts they need to balance near-term needs for profit with an eye toward future growth. The data included in this report make it a valuable tool for understanding where acquisition, expansion into new regions, and build-out for bandwidth are necessary. Learn more
 
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Revenue Assurance: The Hidden Opportunity
Revenue Assurance: The Hidden Opportunity
[Open Quote]Mature Revenue Assurance teams should expand their remit beyond traditional measures to managing new revenue streams. The pay-off will be higher margins on new revenue streams, more success in bringing new services to market, and positive customer experience. CSPs that embrace this hidden opportunity will be in a much stronger position than those that don’t. It is an i[Close Quote]mportant differentiator.
– Martin Creaner, president and COO, TM Forum
“Revenue Assurance: The Hidden Opportunity” is the latest in a series of TM Forum Insights Business Intelligence reports, exclusively available to TM Forum Members. This Insights Business Intelligence Report analyzes the benefits of strong Revenue Assurance performance for Communications Service Providers (CSPs) at all levels of maturity. It includes observations from recent TM Forum Business Benchmarking Revenue Assurance benchmarks and Revenue Assurance Maturity Model surveys. The report also includes perspectives from CSP thought-leaders about the contribution Revenue Assurance makes to their corporate success, and key vendor views on current and future Revenue Assurance challenges.

The report incorporates analysis of data gathered by TM Forum’s Business Benchmarking Program, which includes more than 150 Service Provider participants from around the world. Learn more

 

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Winning in a Shrinking World: Seizing the Opportunities
Winning in a Shrinking World: Seizing the Opportunities.
[Open Quote]Successful CSPs are focusing on how they can turn the current economic malaise to their advantage. Playing it safe by just cutting costs will miss today and tomorrow’s opportunities. Winners will combine fiscal caution with focused aggression along a strategic path.
– Martin Creaner, President and COO, TM Forum
“Winning in a Shrinking World: Seizing the Opportunities” is the latest in a series of TM Forum Insights Business Intelligence reports, exclusively available to TM Forum Members. The report offers valuable insights from TM Forum and Analysys Mason, the telecommunications analyst firm, on revenue growth by region and steps to assure successful completion of transformation initiatives.

The report incorporates analysis of data gathered by TM Forum’s Business Benchmarking Program, which includes more than 130 Service Provider participants from around the world. Learn more

 

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