Visionael Advantage Opens Dialogue on OSS Industry Transformation.Industry Thought Leaders From IDC, Stratecast, Gartner, TeleManagement Forum, and Others Discuss the Changing Role of OSS Oss (ôs), city (1994 pop. 62,141), North Brabant prov., S Netherlands; chartered 1399. It is a significant industrial center. Manufactures include meat products, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical equipment, and metalware. Spending in Service Provider Networks NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- More than 100 senior executives and telecoms industry stakeholders from the world's leading service providers, cable operators, industry analyst firms and systems integrators assembled here at the Visionael Advantage conference to discuss the transformation of the telecom industry. A webcast featuring exclusive coverage from Visionael Advantage was launched this week, and is available at www.VisionaelAdvantage.com. Opinions ran strong throughout the day on OSS spending trends, IP migration drivers, and the importance of new players such as Google, Yahoo and Skype to the OSS ecosystem. A highlight of the show featured a face off among leading analysts from Gartner, IDC, Stratecast, and TeleManagement Forum on global issues such as how SPs are changing the way they manage, maintain and evolve their networks, the importance of IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. , and whether industry standards are being embraced. "When we first started our practice within Stratecast in 1999, executives could barely spell OSS," said Lorien Pratt, Global Director, Infrastructure and OSS. "Today, investments in OSS and BSS See 802.11. BSS - Block Started by Symbol are not only important, but we actually believe that service providers are achieving more differentiation via investments in OSS and BSS than they are in network technology and new network build out. Network technology is becoming a commodity, folks are differentiating by investing in OSS and BSS solutions that help them differentiate in this radically changed environment." Elizabeth Rainge from IDC told the gathered, "OSS is something that is critical and moving in many ways to better processes, better systems, better infrastructures than telecom infrastructures..." But she also said that convergence is a very long journey: "OSS as business-driven systems, as process-driven systems - that's what's going to be a key anchor throughout the transformation period." Visionael Advantage attendees also benefited from technical breakout workshops, seminars and customer case study presentations facilitated by experts in marketing, telecommunications, OSS/BSS and wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. . "In the ever-changing telecom market, Visionael Advantage was designed to bring our various partners and customers together to share their views on how service providers can better deliver new revenue-generating services," said Craig Nichols, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Visionael. "This session reinforced the need and benefit of solution providers such as Visionael providing the market a radically new way of doing things by offering 'plug and play,' cost and time-effective OSS solutions that will help service providers compete and thrive in the converged world." Additional highlights from Visionael Advantage included keynote addresses from top industry experts and real-world presentations and testimonials by customers/partners including Bell Mobility, Pride, Tiscali, Vodafone, and BT. About Visionael Visionael is a software and services company that enables customers to effectively plan for and respond to the ever-changing complexity associated with large computer networks. Enterprises, government organizations, network outsourcers, and telecommunications services providers rely on Visionael solutions and insights to reduce the time and risk of deploying new network technologies and services. The company has an extensive worldwide customer base, including Alpheus Communications, Comcast, Rogers, EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. , TDC TDC Top Dead Center TDC Time-to-Digital Converter TDC Tabular Data Control TDC Total Development Cost TDC Texas Department of Corrections TDC The Discovery Channel TDC Torpedo Data Computer TDC Theater Deployable Communications Song, Kaiser Permanente, IBM Global Services IBM Global Services is the world's largest business and technology services provider. It is the fastest growing part of IBM, with over 190,000 professionals serving customers in more than 160 countries. , Sprint and Vodafone. Channel, system integrators and partners include Cognizant, Dimension Data, EDS, HP, IBM Global Services, Logica and Pride. Visionael is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , headquartered in Palo Alto, California “Palo Alto” redirects here. For other uses, see Palo Alto (disambiguation). Palo Alto (IPA: /ˌpæloʊˈʔæltoʊ/, from Spanish: palo: "stick" and alto: "high", i.e. , with major development facilities in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Gothenburg, Sweden; and Bangalore, India. Sales offices are located throughout North America and Europe. For more information, please visit www.visionael.com, or call +1 650-470-8920. |
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