Analyzing the Service Management Market from 2004-2009.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c25299) has announced the addition of OSS Service Management to their offering.

The trend toward service-based bundled solutions has created an entire new market for software automation systems. This sub-segment of service assurance, which we term service management, provides greater operational insight into service availability and performance.

This 16-page report provides a detailed forecast on the service management market from 2004-2009. The report provides business drivers for spending in this fast growing segment of OSS and list mobile operators that are actively deploying solutions today. The top five service management vendors, their customers, and solution approach is summarized. In addition, 30 other suppliers are evaluated including new suppliers that have recently entered the market.

Features:

-- Market drivers and inhibitors. A convergent network will require a different business approach to managing more complex services that cross many network domains.

-- Assessments of Top Five leading vendors' market positions, with detailed product descriptions.

-- How does service management leverage other systems and how will funding influence other OSS segments.

-- Thirty (30) additional vendors identified whose influence is growing in the service management marketplace.

-- Recommendations for pursuing and implementing a service management initiative.

Key questions answered

How big is this market today?

How fast will it grow over the next 4 years?

Which telecommunication segments will invest the most?

Will technology complexity inhibit investments?

Companies Mentioned:

-- Agilent

-- Aran Technologies

-- Argogroup

-- Brix Networks

-- Casabyte

-- Columbia Movil

-- Digital Fuel

-- HP

-- Lucent

-- Mformation

-- Mycom

-- O2

-- Oblicore

-- Orange

-- Swisscom

-- Telcordia

-- T-Mobile

-- Vodafone

-- WatchMark-Comnitel

Who should read this report?

Executives from communications service providers and software vendors who need to understand the dynamics of this fast-changing market. This report enables service provider executives to draft a short list of OSS suppliers to evaluate. Software vendors will gain an understanding of market driver. Suppliers will gain insight into their company's market position in relation to competitors.

Illustrative Tables and Charts featured:

Table 1: Mobile CSPs active in SM deployments

Table 2: Agilent products

Table 3: HP products

Table 4: Telcordia products

Table 5: Lucent products

Table 6: WatchMark-Comnitel products

Table 7: New entrant wireless SM suppliers

Table 8: SM suppliers

Table 9: Commercial 3G networks

Figure 1: Global service management forecast

Figure 2: New paradigm for managing mobile services

Figure 3: Service management architecture view

Figure 4: SM forecast by segment

Figure 5: European mobile service revenue

Figure 6: Vodafone's voice and non-voice revenue

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