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Articles by Marc Price
Welcome To The Next Smartphone Moment
Global CTO at MATRIXX Software; 30 years experience in telecoms, overseeing digital transformation and the move to hybrid clouds and IoT. getty After years of anticipation and deployment hurdles, 5G standalone (SA) networks are finally scaling. By mid-2025, 71 telecommunications operators launched public 5G SA networks, with several more underway. From the outset, 5G required SA to deliver on its mission. While deployments have been slow, ubiquity is now within reach.
Council Post: The Three A's Imperative For Telco Innovation
Global CTO at MATRIXX Software; 30 years experience in telecoms, overseeing digital transformation and the move to hybrid clouds and IoT. Expect 2024 to be a tipping point for 5G. After years of hype, many service providers are finally deploying 5G standalone networks for the first time this year. According to GSA, just over 20% of the operators with 5G are currently investing in 5G standalone trials or deployments.
OSS BSS Transformation: Cloud Convergent Charging
By: Marc Price Telecom has struggled to achieve digital transformation. Even though some progress has been made, operators face the unfortunate reality of stagnant revenue, stifled innovation, and an inability to capitalize on network investments intended to spur new 5G services. It is a pivotal moment, as telcos will soon determine if their aspirations align with utility models or with new business creation.
OSS and BSS News and Info
Article Index for the April Issue: April 2023 - Transformation By: Thierry E. Klein The next wave of digital change will usher in a revolution in commerce, economics, and culture brought forth by the metaverse(s), a range of digitally augmented worlds, realities, and business models. It is anticipated that by 2030, the metaverse economy will be worth between $8 and $13 trillion.
5 Ways Source-to-Pay Automation Helps Create More Value for Your Organization
Source-to-Pay (S2P) is a vast and nuanced process, spanning purchasing, accounts payable, finance and legal departments, and influencing how every dollar, euro or pound is spent by a business. The all-encompassing nature of Source-to-Pay provides a uniquely broad opportunity for spend optimisation and value generation. Conversely, failure to optimise this process can result in unnecessary spending and value leakage.
How CFOs are Planning to Fund Customer Experience Improvements
In a world where reviews are just a click away, and opinions travel faster than a sales rep’s car, it’s hardly surprising to see customer experience (CX) improvements sitting at the top of the agenda for businesses in 2022. In a recent study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Corcentric, it was shown that customer experience improvements ranked even higher than revenue growth as a business priority.
Council Post: The New Economics Of Telco: Emerging B2B2x Models
Global CTO at MATRIXX Software; 30 years experience in telecoms, overseeing digital transformation and the move to hybrid clouds and IoT. getty More than a century ago, Ford Motor Co. consolidated the control of its supply chain to provide end-to-end supervision, production and sale of its products.
Accelerating Service Provider Agility with CI/CD
Demand for greater commercial agility and faster time to market is driving service provider adoption of cloud-native architectures and best practices. Implementing cloud-native encompasses many essential elements, including Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD), which serves as a fundamental backbone for delivering new applications, features, and business configurations.
The automation imperative
Cloud native and Kubernetes are dominant topics in technology circles these days. But why? What makes such previously obscure concepts and tools suddenly so relevant? Standard practices for software operations until now have been imperative, meaning that instructions are explicit, requiring manual steps and active intervention. Kubernetes and a new generation of cloud-native software have changed that paradigm.
When The Future Grows Up Overnight
Photo: Getty Sometimes the world around us changes quickly. A single event can be impactful, altering behaviors and challenging our norms. A global pandemic can have this impact. Like 9/11 before it, or other seminal events, the world can seem different, and our patterns change. We embrace technologies in new ways, solving old tasks -- and new ones -- differently. Such may be the case now, with the emergence of COVID-19.
Dynamic Business Support Systems (BSS)
By: Marc Price We live in a world transformed. Digital commerce is forever altering modern business. Innovations abound as services proliferate, marketplaces arise, and cryptocurrencies emerge as new mediums of exchange. Alone amid this frenetic pace of change, business support systems (BSS) have not kept up. In nearly every sector, in industries from telecommunications to banking to retail exchanges, these IT solutions are rooted in the past, with little prospects for change.
Gaming's Future: New Devices And Business Models For New Networks
This year will be transformational for the gaming industry. Powerhouses Google and Microsoft have announced the launch of new cloud gaming services later this year, while Amazon is among those rumored to have similar projects in the works. A lot is at stake, with video games expected to be worth over $90 billion by 2020, growing at a rate faster than TV and video, music, cinema or books.
The Evolving Consumer And The Emphasis On Experience
This past January, as most retailers were coming off their holiday rush, many industry analysts provided a rather grim take on the sector, with one even declaring the entire department store category as “unownable” for investors. Anemic mall traffic, an aggressive promotional environment and the steep investments in tech were cited as the primary challenges facing the industry.
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