OSS Linetag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-17576652013-05-09T09:59:39+01:00OSS Line provides news, comments and ideas for Operational Support System (OSS) professionalsTypePadBig Data for Telco – Where is the Data?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0105359f53d8970c019101efcc52970c2013-05-09T09:59:39+01:002013-05-09T10:00:26+01:00If you’ve worked in OSS for more than 5 minutes you know that data, the availability of it, and its accuracy, is a bit of a thing. So, if you’re thinking about ‘doing’ some big data as part of an...James PullenOntology at T-Mobile Czechtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0105359f53d8970c017c378d91ee970b2013-03-11T18:21:54+00:002013-03-11T18:23:55+00:00Ontology, provider of really cool OSS data search and data integration technology, scores a live customer in T-Mobile Czech. It says here that Ontology has been deployed by the Czech T-Mobile op co. Ontology's products provide a means of pulling...James PullenNetCracker Selected by Andorra Telecomtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0105359f53d8970c017ee8a106f4970d2013-02-20T12:46:06+00:002013-02-20T12:46:06+00:00NetCracker will deliver a comprehensive OSS/BSS solution to Andorra Telecom. It says here, "Their selection of NetCracker underscores the industry trend toward utilizing a single, unified platform for BSS and OSS." Andorra Telecom is the principal telecomuncation supplier in the...James PullenCisco to Buy Caridentag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0105359f53d8970c017c34204741970b2012-11-30T11:11:23+00:002012-11-30T11:28:07+00:00It seems like most of my posts these days are about hardware vendors buying software vendors. Here's another acquisition in the OSS industry's (not so mini) acquisition bubble. Cisco is buying Cariden for $141 million. Cariden is a small organisation...James PullenComing Up: Telco Big Data Summit 2012tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0105359f53d8970c017d3e39c859970c2012-11-27T21:16:41+00:002012-11-27T21:20:17+00:00I'm jolly excited to be heading to Informa's Telco Big Data and Real Time Analytics Summit next week. It says here: "Cutting through the hype, the Telco Big Data and Real Time Analytics Summit will bring the telecommunications industry together...James PullenRiverbed to buy Opnettag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0105359f53d8970c017d3d1c8566970c2012-10-30T10:01:28+00:002012-10-30T10:08:28+00:00The OSS mini-bubble continues with another acquisition of OSS assets by a hardware vendor. This time it's Riverbed, who provide boxes for network monitoring and performance optimisation, buying Opnet, suppliers of software for network and application management. Riverbed are paying...James PullenEricsson to buy ConceptWavetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0105359f53d8970c017c322c7b10970b2012-09-27T12:59:46+01:002012-09-27T12:59:46+01:00This week Ericsson announced intentions for another OSS/BSS acquisition, this time at the more customer-facing end of the stack. It says here, “ConceptWave’s unique offer is to provide an end-to-end catalog-driven suite of order fulfillment automation software with ConceptWave Order...James PullenCommon Sense Won’t Sell Your OSS Productstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0105359f53d8970c0167689ab21f970b2012-07-19T10:28:50+01:002012-07-19T10:28:50+01:00The OSS market has changed... Part 4 of 4. This series of four blog posts is a synopsis of my contribution to a discussion I chipped in to on LinkedIn’s ‘OSS Gurus’ group. Economics? RoI? Plain common sense? These won’t...James PullenThe Business Case for OSStag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0105359f53d8970c017616800800970c2012-07-16T12:00:00+01:002012-07-16T12:00:00+01:00The OSS market has changed... Part 3 of 4. The business case for OSS is less clear than ever.James PullenMoving on from 1990s OSStag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0105359f53d8970c017616625b70970c2012-07-12T09:57:03+01:002012-07-12T09:57:03+01:00The OSS market has changed... Part 2 of 4. Systems are going to have to change from those Big OSS products developed in the 90s.James PullenWhere are all the New OSS Projects Going to Come From?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0105359f53d8970c01676858f7cc970b2012-07-10T12:28:00+01:002012-07-10T12:28:00+01:00Where are all the new OSS projects going to come from? It’s not the 90s anymore – the OSS market has changed... This series of four blog posts is a synopsis of my contribution to a discussion I chipped in to on LinkedIn’s ‘OSS Gurus’ group.James PullenNEC to Acquire Convergys BSS Softwaretag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0105359f53d8970c01676441d018970b2012-03-26T17:30:25+01:002012-03-26T17:30:25+01:00NEC announced their intention to acquire Convergys' BSS assets for $449million (USD). The acquisition is intended to compliment NEC's OSS products (from the Netcracker and Subex purchases) and their bag of BSS bits they have been using to promote the...James PullenZoomlar Beta Launchedtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0105359f53d8970c016761e11bdc970b2012-02-07T11:19:01+00:002012-02-07T11:22:43+00:00Zoomlar - Easy-to-use spreadsheet analytics for forecasting trends and predicting outcomes. A bit of news from my day job: I have been busy over the last three months preparing for the launch of a re-branded, re-packaged product aimed at SME,...James PullenComptel Acquires Xtracttag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0105359f53d8970c01630072241c970d2012-01-31T11:09:25+00:002012-01-31T11:16:27+00:00More evidence that OSS/BSS vendors and their customers are starting to really appreciate data analytics. Comptel has announced its acquisition of Xtract (here), supplier of analytics products for telco (and retail/banking too). The price paid by Comptel is modest to...James PullenEricordia/Telicsson - Ericsson Completes Purchase of Telcordiatag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0105359f53d8970c01676069612c970b2012-01-12T16:29:12+00:002012-01-12T16:29:12+00:00Back in June, after several month of speculation, news broke that it was Ericsson that intended to buy Telcordia. That deal has now completed, just a few weeks later than expected. Celebratory Ericsson-branded mugs all-round for the Telcordia team. According...James PullenComverse up for Saletag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0105359f53d8970c01539381ba4a970b2011-11-24T17:31:04+00:002011-11-24T17:31:04+00:00Is Comverse looking for a buyer of their BSS software? Globes has a story about Comverse looking to sell their telco billing unit. This comes a few days after a number of people in the industry received invitations from investment...James PullenNetBoss Acquires Sidonistag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0105359f53d8970c015436ea07ae970c2011-11-15T14:17:59+00:002011-11-15T14:22:26+00:00News from Management World Americas last week: NetBoss has completed acquisition of Sidonis, the start-up doing clever stuff in service assurance. Sidonis are a small team (I could count them on my fingers) based in Bath, UK, who have developed...James PulleniCloud and The Death of the Asynchronous Network Modeltag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0105359f53d8970c0154365f35c3970c2011-10-24T12:23:07+01:002011-10-24T12:23:07+01:00Something else to blame on the over-the-top service providers (yes, those guys who actually make money from comms). New Cloud services are breaking the content-consumption model that ADSL, and network planning in general, is predicated on. iCloud is not the...James PullenSome More Tribold Investmenttag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0105359f53d8970c01543582f36e970c2011-09-17T23:03:59+01:002011-09-17T23:03:59+01:00Yesterday, Tribold announced a funding round of Some Money for strategic investment purposes. This follows $11 million back in January 2009 from Intel, DFJ Esprit and my local VC, Eden Ventures. This time the value of the investment has not...James PullenCisco Buys Bits of Compteltag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0105359f53d8970c014e8adac835970d2011-08-22T16:15:13+01:002011-08-22T16:40:55+01:00This is not the clear-cut Big-Vendor-Buys-OSS-Company that we are familiar with. No, in this case Cisco is acquiring a specific part of Comptel's OSS product portfolio: The Axioss suite picked up as part of Comptel's own acquisition of UK-based Axiom back in 2008.James Pullen