Stefan Spaar

Director of OSS, Cricket Communications

Stefan is currently the Director of OSS at Cricket Communications. In that role, he is responsible for providing and operating both in-house developed and commercial OSS solutions. Stefan has been with Cricket for over three years. Prior to Stefan’s role at Cricket, he has held various R&D and product management positions in the telecommunications industry over the last 22 years, including seven years at Ericsson Wireless Communications where he managed Ericsson’s OSS / Network Management product portfolio for CDMA including complete lifecycle management, market analysis, business opportunity definition, requirement management, R&D sponsorship, and market launch.

Developing your Big Data Analytics Initiative Plan

Establishing and sustaining multiple Big Data Analytics initiatives in a cost-effective way

Through technological advances in massive parallel processing and data analytics, operators today are realizing huge cost savings and are able to optimize their business processes across every department. By capturing and analyzing data from both the network and operational sides of the business, service providers can gain valuable insight into areas like fraud, network and subscriber costs and profitability, and service assurance.This session offers best practices and real-world examples of where the greatest savings can be found, and how operators are leveraging Big Data to create smarter networks, a more efficient back office and a better customer experience.
• Building a robust business case, providing the depth of data analysis required as well as the key metrics and analytics that can be implemented/ extended with a Big Data project
• Developing a business plan that provides a clear ROI period and repeated ROI cycles in the system life cycle
• Using what you already have effectively rather than investing in additional services
• Implementing a technology center of excellence to provide Big Data infrastructure support