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Verizon launches cloud-based SAP service
Tapping apps from the ERP giant is an important next step for both the carrier’s enterprise and cloud ambitions...
As the market turns around... a hot new communications service market emerges
How can communications as a service (CaaS) help you meet your small and medium business customers’ need for cost-effective and on-demand services?...
Crystal Ball 2.0: Crazy ideas for 2010
It's that time of year again. A full economic cycle has unfolded since just last November, when I offered up "Eight Crazy Ideas" re: industry predictions. In hindsight, six of these eight ideas have played out pretty much as foreseen...
New group asks large enterprises for cloud input
The TM Forum’s new ‘buyer’s council’ to learn how service providers can better serve businesses’ emerging cloud requirements...
Aricent helps operators, OEMs build better Android devices, apps
The Android ecosystem is gaining traction as Aricent, ARM lend their expertise device makers building to the OS...
THE INNOVATION BLUEPRINT
There is no shortage of ideas, brainstorms and potential new business models poised to remake the telecom industry. Like a certain south-facing part of...
Perfect intersection: M2M and the supply chain
Telecom service providers have had mixed success providing supply chain services – usually in the form of hosted apps. Leveraging machine-to-machine communications to help companies track in-transit goods worldwide could be the killer app that helps change all that...
Finding telecom's link in the value chain
Avoiding the dreaded “dumb pipe” syndrome requires much more than just adding value to services. It requires reinventing business models....
Accelerating Time to Market with Product Lifecycle Management
Over the past six months the industry has been tempered by the global economic crisis...
Highdeal CTO on cloud computing and new broadband billing models
Earlier this month, Highdeal, a telecom billing software vendor spun out of France Telecom’s labs in 2000, was acquired by German software giant SAP, giving even greater global reach to privately held Highdeal...
Putting the Innovation in Product Innovation
With global markets mired in recession and profit margins sliding, many communications and high-tech companies may be tempted to cut back on product development and merely ride out the storm...
ASP to SAAS to Clouds -- Oh my!
Remember ASPs — application service providers? How about SaaS, or software as a service? Or, to crib an IBM-birthed term, on-demand applications?...
