Solving BSS/OSS Challenges Will Provide a Critical Competitive Advantage That Will Help Service Providers Exploit Badly Needed New Revenue Streams.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c37197) has announced the addition of World Telecoms BSS and OSS Markets: trends and analysis to their offering.

Today it is widely recognised that the back-office systems managing service providers' revenues and service provision are critical to success in the next-generation environment. However, many years of tactical rather than strategic investment in business support systems (BSS) and operations support systems (OSS) have resulted in complex back-end infrastructure that, in many cases, is expensive to run and maintain, inefficient and unable to support convergent, next-generation services.

The evidence from contracts data is that the BSS/OSS market is starting to climb out of recession: service providers are beginning to invest strategically and restructure the IT systems that support their evolving businesses. Solving BSS/OSS challenges will provide a critical competitive advantage that will help service providers exploit badly needed new revenue streams. But there is huge confusion about the nature and potential role of new technologies - IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), IP television (IPTV), service-oriented architectures (SOAs) and service delivery platforms (SDPs), to name just few.

Cutting through the confusion, this report analyses market trends in BSS/OSS based on real-life purchasing decisions, and answers your key questions:

--What are the market drivers? What were the key trends in BSS/OSS purchasing in 2005? What is the outlook for 2006-7?

--What are IMS, IPTV, SOAs and SDPs? Will these technologies take off and what do they mean for the BSS/OSS market?

--What were the supply-side market dynamics in 2005? Which regions and sectors have been most active? Which vendors have been particularly successful in each sector?

--Who are the top vendors overall? Which vendors are the ones to watch in the next two years and who are the new up-and-coming players?

--On the demand side, what are the key difficulties faced by service providers worldwide and how are they solving them?

--Who is buying what type of system and why?

World Telecoms BSS and OSS Markets: trends and analysis provides key statistics on the BSS/OSS market based on data from the publisher's Billing and OSS Markets contracts database and includes in-depth analysis and case studies, as well as opinions from a wide range of industry players. A supplementary PowerPoint presentation summarises the key findings of the report.

Who should read this Report

--Vendors: gain up-to-date insight on the most active sectors in the BSS/OSS market and on the drivers behind these key investment trends, in order to inform sales and marketing initiatives. Find out how well you are performing against your competition and identify possible partners and acquisition targets.

--Operators: discover which key technologies your rivals are investing in and why, and cut through the vendor hype to find out what these new technologies can do to solve your most pressing problems. Learn which vendors are most successful in each region and sector, and identify new vendors offering innovative technologies.

--Investors and analysts: understand current and future trends in the BSS/OSS market. Discover how BSS/OSS strategy can improve the business performance of service providers and learn which technologies are currently of particular interest to them. Identify promising new vendors, as well as merger and acquisition trends.

--Systems integrators and consultancies: discover which vendors are being selected by operators, identify emerging players and trends, and learn what the regional investment patterns are.

Contents are as follows:-

1. The demands of next-generation services are driving the BSS/OSS market

2. Effective billing is essential for successful convergent services

3. Scalability and auditability are key issues for mediation and data management

4. The revenue assurance and fraud management market is growing strongly

5. Service fulfilment is becoming an end-to-end process accompanied by seamless service assurance

Annex A: Methodology

A.1 Data sources

A.2 Methodology for data inclusion and analysis

A.3 Geographical classifications used in the analysis

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