Peter is a Principal Analyst for Analysys Mason’s Global Telecoms Software research stream. He was previously with OSS Observer, a company that Analysys Mason acquired in June 2008. He has 20 years’ experience in the communications industry in research, software development and marketing. He has held senior positions in Agilent Technologies and Hewlett-Packard. Peter holds a BSc and PhD in Physics from Imperial College, London and an MBA from Edinburgh Business School. He is located in Edinburgh, Scotland.
On 10 February 2010, Oracle announced an agreement to acquire Convergin Inc., a provider of real-time service broker solutions. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of this year. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Convergin is an ISV that provides a Java EE-based service broker for network-based services. Its Accolade WCS platform supports the orchestration of legacy and next-generation services.
Amdocs announced a new release of its Customer Experience System on 19 January 2010. It represents a further evolution of the product line as part of Amdocs’ attempt to provide an overall suite of highly advanced, exceptionally scalable OSS, BSS and SDP products.
This report gives a view of the current state of partner and interconnect billing, a forecast of spending growth and an extensive explanation of the changes that are taking place as this market shifts to include new types of partner.
Analysys Mason is happy to welcome Glen Ragoonanan to the global Telecoms Software research team. He will be taking over the Infrastructure Solutions (formerly NEMs) programme. Roz Roseboro is now heading the Global Growth Markets programme. This programme has been combined with the CSP Strategies programme and in 2010 will provide insight into the unique opportunities in Central and Latin America and the Emerging Asia–Pacific region.
The two major news items at Hewlett-Packlard's CMS EMEA Analyst Summit, which was held in Hamburg, Germany during 15–16 December 2009, were the announcement of its Communications as a Service (CaaS) platform and its Subscriber, Network and Application Policy (SNAP) policy management platform.
