Sponsor Quotes
Simon Farrell, Cable and Wireless
"A major obstacle to us deploying a consistent product set across our 30+ businesses is the amount of time and effort required to define products, pricing, processes and rules in each of our local CRM and provisioning systems. The results of the Product and Service Assembly line project would demonstrate a way for us to centralize this sort of activity without compromising local CRM and billing capabilities. For Cable and Wireless this would be a major step forward."
"Our IT systems are under increasing pressure to support rapid time-to-market for increasingly short lifespan products. We need to get our cost-per-product-deployment down to virtually nothing. A large percentage of new products involve resale or bundling of third part components (e.g. ringtones, other mobile services, IMS-style applications) and we are delighted to support a solid industry push towards standards in this space. If I could write an RFP that said "must support industry standard provisioning, management and service creation interfaces, I would be very happy indeed."
Mikael Åhman, Director of OSS & Production TeliaSonera and TMF BoD
"TeliaSonera does not want to waste time, effort and expertise creating a product model that a COTS product cannot support or one which is expensive and involves time consuming customizations. Nor will we look at a model which is incompatible with the product models supported by our chosen partners. TeliaSonera expects the catalyst project to produce a model that can be accepted by all our partners, suppliers, developers and operational staff. "
Dave Millham, British Telecom and TMF BoD
“SPs are encountering changing market conditions, regulation and massive technology shifts triggered by IP based 21Century Networking, and the move to Service Orientated Architecture based on Web2.0. The consequent emergence of virtual operators has introduced competition on a global scale. In response, product introduction and lifecycles have to be massively reduced from years down to a few weeks. To achieve this in a quality and cost affordable manner, SPs need to 'tool-up' their product factories and introduce the concept of ‘Flexible Manufacturing’ in the form of Product Lifecycle Management.”