26,092 views - Posted by Nanda Kumar CEO - Suntec Business Solutions
In my last posting I touched on the difficulties that are being encountered with the rush to then Internet of Things (IoT). I highlighted the fact that all the scenarios outlined were possible now and the fact that we often pursue new technology objectives, usually for commercial reasons, without ca...
15,254 views - Posted by Paul Vedam President & CEO - TIERONE
Continuing the theme from last time, this is the challenge faced by service providers: how do they get access to the right technology? How do they find the non-legacy technology or the innovative solutions that have not yet become widely known? This is an issue that concerns both the servic...
23,022 views - Posted by Andy Tiller VP Corporate Product Marketing - AsiaInfo
Customer data – gathering it, analyzing it and monetizing it, is the mobile internet’s hot topic of the moment. And operators need to pay close attention. Last month it was Spotify in the news for its revamped T&Cs that contained unwanted intrusion into its users’ personal lives. T...
9,500 views - Posted by Chun-ling Woon Chief Strategy Officer - Etiya
“Data drives decision-making and it drives a lot of the services we all consume… It’s a simple example: By publishing the data it allows everyone inside the city and outside to go in and add intelligence and services on top of it. Los Angeles is now rated the number one open data ...
19,843 views - Posted by Mounir Ladki President and CTO - MYCOM OSI
Cities and urban areas are growing at an unprecedented pace and are having an ever greater impact on human life. In fact the global urban population has grown from less than 1 billion people in 1950 to more than 3.9 billion people in 2014. And according to a United Nations report published in July 2...
5,499 views - Posted by Rui Paiva CEO - WeDo Technologies
As a persistent promoter of Portugal I had great joy in reading that my beloved country, rich with a history of discovery, had discovered a new spirit of entrepreneurial adventure. A recent report in Forbes magazine simply confirmed what we in Portugal have known for years. “...
4,473 views - Posted by Mohammed Sha Director of International Marketing Communications - Asia Info
October sees National Customer Service Week in the UK. It’s an initiative aimed at raising awareness of customer service and the vital role it plays in successful business practice and the growth of the UK economy. There is a lot of information on the website, including a breakdown of complain...
51,013 views - Posted by Nanda Kumar CEO - Suntec Business Solutions
Behind the brave new exciting world of the Internet of Things (IoT) lurks a dark cloud we cannot yet comprehend. What lies in store may well change the current marketing hype around IoT into consumer despair. It all stems around the basic premise that all things IoT are connected to the int...
20,442 views - Posted by Paul Vedam President & CEO - TIERONE
In my previous blogs I’ve stressed the importance of picking one key IT system at a time on which to build your business, rather than trying to transform everything at once and building a new Frankenstein held together with sticky tape and pins. However, there is one major process tha...
18,019 views - Posted by Andy Tiller VP Corporate Product Marketing - AsiaInfo
Spotify has caused quite a stir with its revised terms and conditions for subscribers. For every 90 or so consumers who simply tick the “accept” box without reading the small print, there are at least ten who get out their fine toothcomb. Small wonder then that some change...
8,054 views - Posted by Chun-ling Woon Chief Strategy Officer - Etiya
Half of the world’s population will be using mobile devices to access the internet by 2020. It is calculated that there were 2.2 billion mobile internet subscribers in 2013, representing approximately 30 per cent of the global population. GSMA Intelligence forecasts that an additional 1.6 bill...
19,768 views - Posted by Katie Matthews Telecoms Industry Analyst - Asia Info
Operators are constantly being told that they need to up their game if they want to remain relevant in the digital economy, and fundamentally alter their business model to maintain a foothold in the value chain. Articles (very like this one!) urge MNOs to become fully-fledged digital servic...
20,795 views - Posted by Mohammed Sha Director of International Marketing Communications - Asia Info
Recent developments in the telecom industry are increasingly making telecom operators more and more redundant. Operators are struggling to stay relevant in the transforming value chain. What is the solution? At a recent Cambridge Wireless Seminar, Simon Tonks of PA Consulting said NFV and S...
15,808 views - Posted by Ali Durmus Founding Partner, Executive Committee Member - Etiya
“Demand for SaaS enterprise applications is accelerating and exceeding the demand for on premise applications by five-times (during the five-year forecast period through 2018, SaaS revenue is forecast to grow at 17.6% CAGR while on-premise revenue growth is only forecast at 3.1%). By 2018, 27....
9,101 views - Posted by Katie Matthews Telecoms Industry Analyst - Asia Info
Many have compared telcos’ transformation from pure-play telco to digital players as a metamorphosis. You can see why: the weak, bloated caterpillar (telco) emerging from the chrysalis, reborn as a strong and beautiful butterfly (digital player). A fair analogy but one that perhaps does little...
