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2016 Global Stratecast CSP Financial Assurance
Market Leadership Award
2016
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Contents
Background and Company Performance ..................................................................... 3
Introduction .................................................................................................... 3
Industry Challenges .......................................................................................... 5
Stratecast Financial Assurance Market Assessment ................................................ 6
WeDo Technologies........................................................................................... 7
WeDo Market Leadership ................................................................................. 10
Conclusion ..................................................................................................... 13
Significance of Market Leadership ........................................................................... 14
Key Performance Criteria ....................................................................................... 15
The Intersection between 360-Degree Research and Best Practices Awards .................. 16
Best Practices Recognition: 10 Steps to Researching, Identifying, and Recognizing Best Practices ............................................................................................................. 17
About ODAM ........................................................................................................ 18
About Stratecast .................................................................................................. 18
About Frost & Sullivan .......................................................................................... 18
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Background and Company Performance
Introduction
The global communications market now embodies more than just a network connection. In
fact, communication service providers (CSPs) are transforming into digital services
providers (DSPs) in different ways for different business reasons. Chief among these is the
combination of digital services capabilities from third parties with network access channels
such as mobile data, text messaging, and social network links. There are many moving
parts to such services, which the customer holds the CSP accountable for relative to
secure delivery of the service at a price that is both affordable to the customer and
profitable for the CSP and its partners.
Source: Stratecast
Partner ecosystems continue to grow in the evolving communications marketplace.
Service complexity mounts. Assuring that each service offering meets business level
design requirements and delivers the right capabilities for the right remuneration amount,
involves three key ODAM1 (operations, orchestration, data analytics, and monetization)
functions collectively known as Financial Assurance.
1 For more information about ODAM, see "About ODAM" on page 18.
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Stratecast has taken a deep dive into the Financial Assurance2 business solution segment,
which is defined through the confluence of three business management disciplines as
noted in the figure below.
Source: Stratecast
These three domains are:
• Revenue Assurance – Revenue Assurance is the identification and elimination of
unbilled revenue associated with the use of customer services. This situation is
generally a result of misaligned processes or internal mismanagement of the data
flowing between systems and/or partners. A revenue assurance condition can also
come from a lack of coordination between the network, internal business systems,
or partner channels.
• Margin Assurance – Margin Assurance is a diverse set of purpose-built analytics
that give CSPs additional tools—outside of traditional Revenue Assurance and Fraud
Management—to reduce costs and increase revenue. It is a rapidly changing
2 The capitalization of Financial Assurance, Revenue Assurance, Fraud Management, and Margin
Assurance is done purposefully throughout this award to highlight the importance of these terms.
Regardless of whether the term refers to the market (or sub-market), a solution or set of solutions,
or to a discipline, the full name with capital letters, is used and not abbreviated. Common
abbreviations include RA for Revenue Assurance and FM or FMS for Fraud Management or Fraud
Management Systems. Financial Assurance and Margin Assurance are less common names with no
immediately recognizable abbreviation.
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environment that centers not just on internal CSP cost containment but on the hunt
for new ways to monetize business insight while delivering customer value. New
business opportunities for both suppliers of Margin Assurance solutions and the
CSPs that use these tools to improve their business processes continue to take
shape.
• Fraud Management – Communications fraud has been defined by the TM Forum
as: “the intentional action(s) by an individual, group (e.g., syndicate), or enterprise
(e.g., partner) to receive, through deception, products, services and/or revenues
from the target service provider(s) without remitting expected value for those
products or services.”3 Fraud Management is the identification and remediation of
fraud-based activities relative to network-based services. With increasing service
complexity and sources of solution capabilities, the number of fraud opportunities is
escalating exponentially. Hence, the need for Fraud Management solutions to
address each potential fraud option is also accelerating.
Industry Challenges
Each Financial Assurance component—Revenue Assurance, Fraud Management, and
Margin Assurance—is critical to the success of the global CSP marketplace. This is
especially relevant as new business models, complex service offers, and increasing
external partnerships expand the need for these management disciplines beyond their
traditional boundaries.
Revenue Assurance solutions verify that all revenue that should be accounted for is
accounted for—that no revenue “leaks” occur within any business or operations process.
With more than a 20-year history, it is easy to falsely conclude that all of the leaks that
ever were, are already plugged. However, Revenue Assurance is a job that is never
“done,” due to the rapid and continual change in devices, networks, services, and partners
contributing to the complex services that define the communications marketplace.
Many of the new CSP business models involving partnerships raise the level of complexity
in service delivery and asset coordination. In turn, the partner remuneration process now
incorporates added challenges tied to both internal and external business needs, opening
the door to a new set of potential revenue leakage problems.
Fraud Management is designed to stop the fraudulent use of services that can occur from
external entities gaining unauthorized access to service or network resources. It is also
designed to identify inconsistencies from potential internal resource mismanagement.
Unauthorized service usage, in any form (internal or external), only generates costs
without a corresponding level of revenue generation. A solution that identifies and
remedies such situations is a form of cost assurance.
Margin Assurance is a newer discipline enabled by analytics and fueled by an underlying
need to improve profit margins. In the world of ODAM, analytics has become a buzzword
3 TM Forum document GB954 Fraud Classification Guide, Version 2.4, December, 2013.
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wherever there is data to analyze. Within the communications industry, there is no lack of
data—it is all Big Data. To provide resolution to specific business problems and to help
mitigate those problems, e.g., improving profitability (margin), “purpose-built analytics”
are applied to the data collected from all applicable sources, particularly from billing data
and direct cost information.
Stratecast Financial Assurance Market Assessment
Stratecast's 2016 assessment of the Financial Assurance market will be released in the
coming weeks.4 This report examines the major global suppliers offering Financial
Assurance solutions as well as an evolving crop of additional suppliers. The report
discusses the importance of each part of the Financial Assurance domain and provides a
market share analysis of the 46 identified suppliers within this market. The report also
assesses the direction each of the three markets that define Financial Assurance is
heading in the coming months, and why.
The findings, as published in this report, show that WeDo Technologies leads in market
share for the global CSP Financial Assurance market. Stratecast believes that WeDo
addresses approximately 12% of the Financial Assurance market based on revenue
collected from the sale of these solution capabilities. The next four competitors address
approximately 11%, 9%, 9%, and 8% of the market respectively by revenue.
For this report, Stratecast examined and interviewed 46 Financial Assurance suppliers that
address one or more of the above mentioned market segments—that total includes 31
suppliers that offer Revenue Assurance solutions, 38 that offer Fraud Management
solutions, and 26 that offer Margin Assurance solutions. Many suppliers provide solutions
that cover all three Financial Assurance functions.
Stratecast revenue estimates include vendors with software solution offerings that obtain
revenue from license fees, maintenance fees, services associated with the initial
installation and configuration of a solution, service bureau fees, cloud services fees, and
installed solutions managed by a supplier. Internal CSP spending attributed to internal
work teams or assistance from professional services consulting resources is not included.
In addition, hardware-related revenue and revenue generated by systems integrators or
companies without their own Financial Assurance solutions are not included. The
professional services fees for integration of new solutions with existing systems, and
updates to CSP business processes are also not included in the market share analysis.
The market share analysis is developed by analyzing multiple sources including
information supplied to Stratecast through direct interviews, information from public
sources, and raw market data. The analysis is developed from 2015 company-level
revenue, projections of future earnings, global financial market insights, as available, and
our strategic acumen concerning Financial Assurance functions.
4 Stratecast report, Global CSP Financial Assurance 2016 Edition: Market Forecast, Market Share analysis, and Supplier Assessment, to be published December, 2016.
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RAID Telecom is a modular platform, which is designed to allow WeDo's CSP customers
to purchase only the functionality needed to address current business issues, but with the
flexibility to address others when necessary. As described by WeDo, the various modules
include:
• RAID Revenue Assurance – This module provides the ability to respond to both
current and future needs, ensuring services are billed for accurately, and collected
for accurately. Revenue Assurance enables CSPs to reduce revenue leakage,
improve margins, and capture more earnings by improving the customer
experience and reducing customer churn.
• RAID Fraud Management – Fraud Management provides real-time fraud
protection by identifying suspicious or fraudulent activity. The module offers
visibility, automation, flexibility, and scalability to protect today’s rapidly changing
telecom environments against increasingly sophisticated fraud threats.
• RAID Partner Incentives Assurance – This module enables CSPs to keep new
customer acquisition costs at a minimum. Partner Incentives Assurance
identifies fraudulent activity, classifies and profiles partners, as well as accessing
the efficiency of incentive schemes.
• RAID Supplier Cost Assurance – Supplier Cost Assurance monitors the
procurement process. It audits purchase orders and payments, related invoices,
and contracts. The module also evaluates the relationships between CSPs or
internal approvers and suppliers looking for fraudulent behaviors.
• RAID Customer Collections Assurance – This module allows CSPs to monitor
the efficiency of the customer credit scoring process, along with collections and
dunning strategies. Customer Collections Assurance also measures the
performance of internal and external debt recovery agencies.
• RAID Equipment Management Assurance – Equipment Management
Assurance audits activities and systems related to inventory management,
covering a CSP's physical assets deployed in customer installations. The module
also supports CSPs in keeping inventory costs under control, while avoiding
revenue losses either from wrong or late provisioning, or due to increased costs
caused by obsolete or defective equipment.
• RAID Order Handling Assurance – This module enables CSPs to measure and
improve order management performance, by monitoring provisioning orders, costs,
delays, and system outages. Order Handling Assurance also controls backlog
task size, and supports CSPs in identifying underperforming systems, teams, and
process designs.
• RAID Customer Problem Handling Assurance – Customer Problem Handling
Assurance audits the internal process of customer incidents resolution, from
creation through problem solving. The module also monitors resolution accuracy,
customer satisfaction, resolution time, costs, and compensation measures.
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• RAID Service Problem Management Assurance – This module allows CSPs to
have a proactive analysis of incidents and problems occurring with their service
delivery. Service Problem Management Assurance also audits the relationship
between resource outages and customer incidents.
• RAID Bill Inquiry Assurance – Bill Inquiry Assurance monitors customer bill
inquiries and credits related to those inquiries. This module provides insights into
both billing performance, and into the customer care organization performance.
• RAID Workforce Management Assurance – This module continuously monitors
the CSP field staff activities, and profiles the work force based on their activities
and outcomes. Workforce Management Assurance also monitors costs related
to overstaffing, overtime, travel costs, service levels achievements, and invoice
disputes.
• RAID Resource Trouble Management Assurance – Resource Trouble
Management Assurance provides CSPs with a specific set of controls to ensure
proactive analysis of incidents occurring within their network resources.
Different Financial Assurance users within a CSP organization need different levels of, and
focus points around, information. For example, a business analyst may need the details
concerning a specific instance of revenue leakage or fraud to resolve a problem, while an
executive requires a summarized view of the same information. RAID Telecom provides
business sensors that graphically represent key performance indicator (KPI) data, and that
provide the key metrics that each type of user needs, which are configured based on the
user’s position within the organization.
RAID Telecom supplies integrated rules-based case management to prioritize and
resolve identified risks more efficiently. To provide an integrated vision of how risks are
impacting an organization’s overall performance for managers and executives, RAID offers
a “Balance Scorecard” that links strategic objectives from the organization to the KPIs
from the solution.
WeDo’s other solutions, which support the Stratecast definition of Margin Assurance,
include:
• ShapeTelecom – Designed to improve the effectiveness of marketing campaigns,
increase customer satisfaction, and improve customer loyalty. The solution addresses
such business function areas as: profitability, customer optimization, churn, social
value, and monetization.
• netClarus TRAFFIC – This solution provides network traffic analysis for planning and
traffic cost management and is offered as a SaaS solution. netCLARUS TRAFFIC is
designed to enable CSPs to optimize traffic cost management, prioritize voice peering,
reduce OPEX, and maximize profit.
• IncentivesBroker – CSPs use dealers and indirect sales channels to sell their
products and attract and retain customers. IncentivesBroker provides incentive
management, assuring the compensation processes, while reducing costs and dealer
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fraud.
• CollectionsBroker – Revenue loss due to customer bad debt can be significant.
CollectionsBroker provides credit control and collections management, and
integrates with existing network and business systems. The solution also includes a
negotiation module to manage payment agreements from establishment to conclusion,
and an external collections module to manage the interaction with external collection
agencies.
Stratecast Insights
Change has long been the norm within the global communications marketplace, but the
level of change today and coming tomorrow is at a level never before seen. Many CSPs
are attempting to become more agile—to become digital service providers and compete
with so-called over-the-top (OTT) providers of customer-desired services. Networks are
moving quickly towards virtualized software-driven functions integrated with existing
network nodes, thereby creating a very complex hybrid network environment from which
to operate for the next several years. Expansion of service opportunities through use of
5G technology is just around the corner. In addition, partnerships are becoming
increasingly important as CSPs look to counter pressures on revenue with new ways of
doing business. The level of change from each of these business opportunity windows
makes Financial Assurance more important than ever.
Stratecast believes that WeDo Technologies is the revenue leader in overall
Financial Assurance. As Financial Assurance opportunities continue to evolve,
Stratecast expects WeDo to grow its market presence in not only the
communications sector but within each of its target markets, including retail,
energy, and healthcare services.
WeDo Market Leadership
The 2016 Stratecast Global Market Leadership Award in CSP Financial Assurance is judged
based on ten criteria detailed later in this document. WeDo Technologies was compared
against two other leading suppliers in the CSP Financial Assurance space.
The following details a selection of the comparisons from the ten criteria. The data behind
the comparisons comes from the soon to be published Stratecast report: Global CSP
Financial Assurance 2016 Edition: Market Forecast, Market Share Analysis, and Supplier
Assessment.
Implementation Excellence
Stratecast recognizes that to be a leader in CSP Financial Assurance, in an individual
segment of CSP Financial Assurance, or in any of the areas of CSP ODAM, a supplier must
be able to implement the solutions they have sold; each and every time.
Stratecast's knowledge of the excellence in implementation with regard to WeDo is well
founded based on several customer testimonials, continued press from WeDo that
identifies CSPs by name, and the ongoing discussions Stratecast has with both WeDo and
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its competitors. Together, these actions indicate that the company is keeping its existing
customers happy as it continues to gain new ones in all aspects of its current and
developing business strategy.
In addition, both the Financial Assurance market, and the ODAM market in general, is
becoming more accepting of cloud-enabled solutions, which will reduce implementation
complexity. WeDo shared with Stratecast that it has spent the last few years re-tooling its
solutions to better support cloud-based deployments and expects the number of cloud-
based deployments to increase significantly in the coming months.
Brand Strength
Brand is often of great importance to a customer when choosing a product for purchase.
This is true of consumer goods and it holds for CSPs when they choose their ODAM
systems with price tags that usually reach into the millions of dollars. In the area of CSP
Financial Assurance, CSPs trust a supplier’s ability to assure their revenue—the revenue
measured in millions or even billions of dollars that enables them to stay in business. This
trust is bestowed on software and services suppliers when the observed quality of a
software solution and the accompanying services repeatedly delivers success in the
markets they serve. Trust in the products and services delivered by a supplier are of
utmost importance.
Stratecast is certain revenue correlates strongly with CSP brand trust. WeDo leads the
Financial Assurance market as measured by revenue and it also has a global customer
base of over 190 CSPs. This level of market penetration should reinforce WeDo as an
organization with very strong brand strength.
Product Quality
Similar to the previous two criteria, product quality is very important to CSPs, who expect
any solution they purchase to not only work as promised, but to meet their specific
business needs within the timeframe of delivery they agree to with the software supplier.
Poor quality solutions immediately cause issues with the CSP customer and, bad news
travels fast, which is hard to overcome within the communications marketplace.
Stratecast is certain market strength indicates that CSP customers continue to put trust in
a supplier, the quality of their products, and in the supplier's ability to satisfy all needed
business change needs in order for the new solution to operate effectively. WeDo’s ability
to lead the Financial Assurance market over the last few years is a strong indicator that its
CSP customers find the company's products and solution delivery capabilities to either
meet or exceed expectations.
Customer Purchase Experience, Customer Ownership Experience, and Customer
Service Experience
Often, when thinking of customer purchase, customer ownership, or customer service
experiences, one relates those experiences to one’s own life. Even the definitions of these
criteria are easy to relate:
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• Customer Purchase Experience - Customers feel like they are buying the most
optimal solution that addresses both their unique needs and their unique
constraints.
• Customer Ownership Experience – Customers are proud to own the company’s
product or service, and have a positive experience throughout the life of the
product or service.
• Customer Service Experience – Customer service is accessible, fast, stress-free,
and of high quality.
Whether we are looking at our own experiences or examining the experiences of a CSP
buying ODAM systems with million dollar price tags, the purchase experience, the
ownership experience, and the customer service experience are extremely important.
When a company is the market leader of a highly competitive market such as the CSP
Financial Assurance market, this provides a level of proof that the company is highly
regarded by its customers. WeDo leads this market for the second time and has over
190 CSPs as customers around the world. Stratecast believes this is a strong indication
that the customer purchase experience, the customer ownership experience and the
customer service experience provided by WeDo Technologies are excellent.
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Conclusion
Stratecast recently concluded its most recent assessment of the global CSP Financial
Assurance market. In so doing, Stratecast analyzed the insights from more than 45
suppliers, covering various aspects of the CSP Financial Assurance marketplace, which
includes Revenue Assurance, Fraud Management, and Margin Assurance capabilities.
Stratecast analysis of the global Financial Assurance market revealed that WeDo leads in
market share based on 2015 supplier revenue. Stratecast analysis also concluded that
WeDo presently addresses approximately 12% of this market by earned revenue, as
shown in the figure below:
Source: Stratecast
In recognition of WeDo's ability to lead in market share and address CSP key
challenges, Stratecast awards the 2016 Stratecast Global Market Leadership
Award in CSP Financial Assurance to WeDo Technologies.
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Significance of Market Leadership
Ultimately, growth in any organization depends upon customers purchasing from your
company, and then making the decision to return time and again. Loyal customers
become brand advocates; brand advocates recruit new customers; the company grows;
and then it attains market leadership. To achieve and maintain market leadership, an
organization must strive to be best-in-class in three key areas: understanding demand,
nurturing the brand, and differentiating from the competition.
Understanding Market Leadership As discussed on the previous page, driving demand, strengthening the brand, and
competitive differentiation all play a critical role in a company’s path to market leadership.
This three-fold focus, however, is only the beginning of the journey and must be
complemented by an equally rigorous focus on the customer experience. Best-practice
organizations therefore commit to the customer at each stage of the buying cycle and
continue to nurture the relationship once the customer has made a purchase. In this
manner, such companies build a loyal, ever-growing customer base and methodically add
to their market share over time.
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Key Performance Criteria
For the Market Leadership Award, Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan analysts focused on
specific criteria to determine the areas of performance excellence that led to the
company’s leadership position. The criteria that were considered include (although not
limited to) the following:
Criterion Requirement
Growth Strategy Excellence Demonstrated ability to consistently identify, prioritize,
and pursue emerging growth opportunities
Implementation Excellence
Processes support the efficient and consistent
implementation of tactics designed to support the
strategy
Brand Strength The possession of a brand that is respected, recognized,
and remembered
Product Quality
The product or service receives high marks for
performance, functionality and reliability at every stage
of the life cycle
Product Differentiation
The product or service has carved out a market niche,
whether based on price, quality, uniqueness of offering
(or some combination of the three) that another
company cannot easily duplicate
Technology Leverage
Demonstrated commitment to incorporating leading
edge technologies into product offerings, for greater
product performance and value
Price/Performance Value Products or services offer the best value for the price,
compared to similar offerings in the market
Customer Purchase Experience
Customers feel like they are buying the most optimal
solution that addresses both their unique needs and
their unique constraints
Customer Ownership Experience
Customers are proud to own the company’s product or
service, and have a positive experience throughout the
life of the product or service
Customer Service Experience Customer service is accessible, fast, stress-free, and of
high quality
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The Intersection between 360-Degree Research and Best Practices Awards
Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan’s 360-degree
research methodology represents the
analytical rigor of our research process. It
offers a 360-degree-view of industry
challenges, trends, and issues by integrating
all 7 of Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan's
research methodologies. Too often,
companies make important growth decisions
based on a narrow understanding of their
environment, leading to errors of both
omission and commission. Successful growth
strategies are founded on a thorough
understanding of market, technical,
economic, financial, customer, best
practices, and demographic analyses. The
integration of these research disciplines into
the 360-degree research methodology
provides an evaluation platform for
benchmarking industry players and for
identifying those performing at best-in-class levels.
360-DEGREE RESEARCH: SEEING ORDER IN
THE CHAOS
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Best Practices Recognition: 10 Steps to Researching, Identifying, and Recognizing Best Practices
Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan Awards follow a 10-step process to evaluate award
candidates and assess their fit with select best practice criteria. The reputation and
integrity of the Awards are based on close adherence to this process.
STEP OBJECTIVE KEY ACTIVITIES OUTPUT
1 Monitor, target, and screen
Identify award recipient candidates from around the globe
• Conduct in-depth industry research
• Identify emerging sectors • Scan multiple geographies
Pipeline of candidates who potentially meet all best-practice criteria
2 Perform 360-degree research
Perform comprehensive, 360-degree research on all candidates in the pipeline
• Interview thought leaders and industry practitioners
• Assess candidates’ fit with best-practice criteria
• Rank all candidates
Matrix positioning all candidates’ performance relative to one another
3
Invite thought leadership in best practices
Perform in-depth examination of all candidates
• Confirm best-practice criteria
• Examine eligibility of all candidates
• Identify any information gaps
Detailed profiles of all ranked candidates
4
Initiate research director review
Conduct an unbiased evaluation of all candidate profiles
• Brainstorm ranking options • Invite multiple perspectives on candidates’ performance
• Update candidate profiles
Final prioritization of all eligible candidates and companion best-practice positioning paper
5
Assemble panel of industry experts
Present findings to an expert panel of industry thought leaders
• Share findings • Strengthen cases for candidate eligibility
• Prioritize candidates
Refined list of prioritized award candidates
6
Conduct global industry review
Build consensus on award candidates’ eligibility
• Hold global team meeting to review all candidates
• Pressure-test fit with criteria • Confirm inclusion of all eligible candidates
Final list of eligible award candidates, representing success stories worldwide
7 Perform quality check
Develop official award consideration materials
• Perform final performance benchmarking activities
• Write nominations • Perform quality review
High-quality, accurate, and creative presentation of nominees’ successes
8
Reconnect with panel of industry experts
Finalize the selection of the best-practice award recipient
• Review analysis with panel • Build consensus • Select winner
Decision on which company performs best against all best-practice criteria
9 Communicate recognition
Inform award recipient of award recognition
• Present award to the CEO • Inspire the organization for continued success
• Celebrate the recipient’s performance
Announcement of award and plan for how recipient can use the award to enhance the brand
10 Take strategic action
Share award news with stakeholders and customers
• Coordinate media outreach • Design a marketing plan • Assess award’s role in future strategic planning
Widespread awareness of recipient’s award status among investors, media personnel, and employees
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About ODAM
The processes and tools that communications service providers (CSPs) have utilized to run
their businesses have changed over time. More than a half-century ago, CSP network and
business management processes were manual (OAM&P). As CSPs evolved over the years,
so did the operations support systems (OSS) and business support systems (BSS) that
address CSP business and network management needs. In recent years, the lines between
OSS and BSS have become less clear, with much overlap. In addition, the roles in which
OSS and BSS operate have expanded beyond traditional boundaries. As such, Stratecast
now uses the term Operations, Orchestration, Data Analytics & Monetization (ODAM) to
encompass both the traditional OSS and BSS functions and the new areas in which
business and operations management must now work together, including virtualized
networks and telecom data analysis.
About Stratecast
Stratecast collaborates with our clients to reach smart business decisions in the rapidly
evolving and hyper-competitive Information and Communications Technology markets.
Leveraging a mix of action-oriented subscription research and customized consulting
engagements, Stratecast delivers knowledge and perspective that is only attainable
through years of real-world experience in an industry where customers are collaborators;
today’s partners are tomorrow’s competitors; and agility and innovation are essential
elements for success. Contact your Stratecast Account Executive to engage our experience
to assist you in attaining your growth objectives.
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