This document discusses the need for mobile service providers to shift from traditional network management to end-to-end service quality management (SQM) in order to manage quality of experience for customers using mobile broadband services. It outlines SQM functions like monitoring key performance indicators, service models, dashboards, and notifications. Integrating SQM across transport, backhaul, and wireless networks allows providers to gain visibility into application and subscriber service performance. SQM data can also provide business intelligence on service usage trends and help evolve management from SQM to formal service level management.
Customer-Centric Service Quality ManagementTTI Telecom
The document discusses improving customer-centric service quality management. It emphasizes integrating a variety of network and customer data to create a unified service management system. This allows monitoring key performance indicators and identifying issues to proactively alert of service irregularities. Taking a customer-focused approach to service quality monitoring and maintaining it as an ongoing process can help close the gap between customer needs and operator service quality.
Telecom Convergent Billing and Support Functions -A whitepaper by Biju M RBiju M R
The document discusses the need for convergent billing and operations support solutions for telecommunications operators. Major use cases of convergent billing include a uniform product catalog, real-time charging, a unified customer hierarchy, and single billing. These functions allow operators to offer bundled services, gain insights into customer usage and revenue, and improve the customer experience. The document also outlines additional convergent functions beyond billing such as policy management, self-care portals, and campaign management that leverage a centralized view of customers.
Converged Broadband Services Fulfillment-DeliveredSigma Systems
Rogers is a large Canadian communications company with assets in wireless, cable, media, and sports. It has over 7 million wireless subscribers, 2.3 million cable subscribers, and generates over $5.5 billion in annual revenue. Rogers is uniquely positioned in Canada as the only company offering "quad play" services of wireless, internet, cable, and phone under one integrated platform. It is looking to further converge and integrate its services and systems to improve the customer experience and increase efficiency. Sigma Systems provides Rogers' fulfillment system and helps enable its converged services strategy.
TABS, is an integrated software package designed for the mobile, ISP, and traditional fixed network services. This capability provides us with a solution that is already well versed in supporting Local, International. TABS convergent Customer Care & Billing system undertakes the whole billing process of a single converged system and rates all services against a single unified rating scheme.TABS solutions have been implemented in 38 sites for the major telecom groups providing Non stop services for over 100+ customers.
The ITS solution is based on SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture), which helps business owners respond more quickly and in a cost-effective manner to changing market conditions. With SOA, business changes can be easily met through customization rather than traditional custom development, making it easier to quickly implement changes without requiring radical system modifications. The ITS SOA-based solution also simplifies interconnection with and usage of existing IT assets, which facilitates integration with existing systems and increases interoperability.
Brian cappellani scte et 2008 presentationSigma Systems
The document discusses the evolution of services towards greater personalization and on-demand access across multiple technologies. It notes the need for common interfaces to support new types of personalized and on-demand services from both internal and third-party developers. The document argues that open service enablement platforms are needed at the network edge to integrate business rules, subscriber policies and qualifications in real-time to support new types of personalized and blended services from a variety of partners.
Terry Butler of Sigma Systems presents at the Klabs Conference 2009 in South Korea.
The presentation shows the Triple-play Service initiative between Klabs and Sigma Systems, for which the objective is to demonstrate end-to-end service provisioning for triple-play services.
Advertising & Subscriber Knowledge Brian Cappellani CTOSigma Systems
The document discusses advanced advertising and subscriber knowledge for cable operators. It outlines the value of dynamic, targeted advertising and challenges around disparate subscriber data. It recommends that operators deliver personalized experiences, enhance data segmentation, and maximize privacy and security through standards-based approaches. The Sigma SIS advertising solution leverages subscriber data to enable addressable, multi-screen advertising while maintaining privacy, with the goal of improving revenues and operational efficiencies for cable operators.
Customer-Centric Service Quality ManagementTTI Telecom
The document discusses improving customer-centric service quality management. It emphasizes integrating a variety of network and customer data to create a unified service management system. This allows monitoring key performance indicators and identifying issues to proactively alert of service irregularities. Taking a customer-focused approach to service quality monitoring and maintaining it as an ongoing process can help close the gap between customer needs and operator service quality.
Telecom Convergent Billing and Support Functions -A whitepaper by Biju M RBiju M R
The document discusses the need for convergent billing and operations support solutions for telecommunications operators. Major use cases of convergent billing include a uniform product catalog, real-time charging, a unified customer hierarchy, and single billing. These functions allow operators to offer bundled services, gain insights into customer usage and revenue, and improve the customer experience. The document also outlines additional convergent functions beyond billing such as policy management, self-care portals, and campaign management that leverage a centralized view of customers.
Converged Broadband Services Fulfillment-DeliveredSigma Systems
Rogers is a large Canadian communications company with assets in wireless, cable, media, and sports. It has over 7 million wireless subscribers, 2.3 million cable subscribers, and generates over $5.5 billion in annual revenue. Rogers is uniquely positioned in Canada as the only company offering "quad play" services of wireless, internet, cable, and phone under one integrated platform. It is looking to further converge and integrate its services and systems to improve the customer experience and increase efficiency. Sigma Systems provides Rogers' fulfillment system and helps enable its converged services strategy.
TABS, is an integrated software package designed for the mobile, ISP, and traditional fixed network services. This capability provides us with a solution that is already well versed in supporting Local, International. TABS convergent Customer Care & Billing system undertakes the whole billing process of a single converged system and rates all services against a single unified rating scheme.TABS solutions have been implemented in 38 sites for the major telecom groups providing Non stop services for over 100+ customers.
The ITS solution is based on SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture), which helps business owners respond more quickly and in a cost-effective manner to changing market conditions. With SOA, business changes can be easily met through customization rather than traditional custom development, making it easier to quickly implement changes without requiring radical system modifications. The ITS SOA-based solution also simplifies interconnection with and usage of existing IT assets, which facilitates integration with existing systems and increases interoperability.
Brian cappellani scte et 2008 presentationSigma Systems
The document discusses the evolution of services towards greater personalization and on-demand access across multiple technologies. It notes the need for common interfaces to support new types of personalized and on-demand services from both internal and third-party developers. The document argues that open service enablement platforms are needed at the network edge to integrate business rules, subscriber policies and qualifications in real-time to support new types of personalized and blended services from a variety of partners.
Terry Butler of Sigma Systems presents at the Klabs Conference 2009 in South Korea.
The presentation shows the Triple-play Service initiative between Klabs and Sigma Systems, for which the objective is to demonstrate end-to-end service provisioning for triple-play services.
Advertising & Subscriber Knowledge Brian Cappellani CTOSigma Systems
The document discusses advanced advertising and subscriber knowledge for cable operators. It outlines the value of dynamic, targeted advertising and challenges around disparate subscriber data. It recommends that operators deliver personalized experiences, enhance data segmentation, and maximize privacy and security through standards-based approaches. The Sigma SIS advertising solution leverages subscriber data to enable addressable, multi-screen advertising while maintaining privacy, with the goal of improving revenues and operational efficiencies for cable operators.
Advanced Advertising Standards in the Cable SpaceSigma Systems
The document discusses advanced advertising standards and technologies in the cable industry. It provides an overview of key cable standards bodies like CableLabs and SCTE that are developing standards to deliver targeted advertising capabilities. The SCTE 130 standard defines interfaces for an advanced advertising system, while CableLabs specifications provide interfaces for ad campaign fulfillment and reporting. Demonstrations showed how these standards can enable an end-to-end targeted advertising solution across cable, IPTV and mobile platforms.
OSS/BSS Explained, Part 1: It used to be simple, now a massive transformation...Ericsson OSS/BSS
Customer experience is the foremost reason why operations and business support systems (OSS/BSS) have become a key area of investment for any communications services provider.
Learn more about Ericsson OSS/BSS: http://www.ericsson.com/realize
TABS is an integrated software package designed for mobile, ISP, and traditional fixed network services. It provides a convergent customer care and billing system that handles billing for all services through a single rating scheme. TABS solutions have been implemented in 38 sites for major telecom groups, providing continuous service for over 100 customers. The solution is based on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) that allows for customization and integration with existing systems. TABS offers various telecom solutions including billing, customer care, interconnect, revenue sharing, business intelligence, and call center solutions.
Mastering Service Management for Commercial Voice OfferingsSigma Systems
1) MSOs initially entered the commercial voice market with residential offers for small businesses but have expanded to offer more complex services for larger businesses.
2) Successfully providing commercial voice services requires establishing excellent customer service, developing new capabilities through strategic alliances, and enhancing OSS to support multiple sites, features, and customer self-care.
3) Beyond voice services, MSOs can pursue additional revenue opportunities by offering businesses services like remote data backup, managed security, video, and unified communications.
How Cloud Service Providers Can Effectively Monetize and Deliver the Ultimate...Comverse, Inc.
1. CSPs face challenges in monetizing cloud services including becoming a commodity, poor client satisfaction from billing, and missed revenue opportunities.
2. Effective monetization is key to minimizing risks, developing sustainable business models, and creating market differentiation for CSPs.
3. Billing models for CSPs must be flexible, value-based, and reflective of dynamic consumption patterns to meet enterprise needs and avoid issues like "bill shock".
This document discusses challenges faced by telecom operators and how product lifecycle management (PLM) systems can help address them. It describes SPMS, a PLM solution that provides a central hub for product information across departments. SPMS streamlines processes like rate plan development and approval through configuration tools, templates, and workflow automation. This improves efficiency, speeds time to market, and ensures regulatory compliance for telecom operators.
The document describes Comarch's portfolio of BSS/OSS solutions for telecommunications companies. It provides an overview of the key solutions in areas such as sales and customer management, billing, service fulfillment, network management, and analytics. Comarch aims to help telecom companies address the challenges of the digital era and optimize costs while improving customer experience and business efficiency. The portfolio includes solutions for CRM, billing, order management, customer self-service, and more that can be customized to meet individual company needs.
This document discusses how next generation cloud technology can help service providers compete in the business broadband market for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and distributed enterprises. It notes that price erosion has led to commoditization of broadband services, impacting revenues. Cloud services that efficiently and profitably deliver security and infrastructure management services can help differentiate providers and attract customers. Critical factors for successful cloud services include flexibility, ease of use, scalability, and centralized delivery from any device.
Telecom Billing Solutions By Sohag SarkarSohag Sarkar
This document provides an overview of telecom billing solutions. It discusses the evolution of billing systems from in-house developed systems in the 1980s to more complex third-party solutions today. The general billing process is described involving collecting call detail records from the network, rating calls according to customer plans, aggregating rated calls into invoices, and generating bills. The key components of a billing system including mediation, rating, and invoicing engines are explained. Finally, the document outlines the major functions performed by rating engines in processing usage records and preparing them for invoicing.
The document describes BillCall, a real-time billing and resource management solution for telecom carriers. BillCall provides interconnect mediation, routing, billing, rating, service activation and revenue settlement features. It offers smart rating and routing, revenue assurance capabilities, fraud management, billing and accounting, rates management, routing configuration, and security and scalability features. BillCall supports reconciliation and settlement, multi-currency billing, and integration with third party software.
The document outlines the operational structure and processes for transitioning to a new DSL voice over IP (VOIP) service. Key aspects include:
1) Deploying servers simultaneously across locations while ensuring consistent configurations and testing the service with select employees first.
2) Evaluating service parameters based on feedback and surveys to identify any issues before full rollout.
3) Maintaining configuration items, media libraries, and stores to manage the infrastructure.
4) Establishing configuration management and change management processes to ensure consistency and handle incidents.
5) Validating the service and collecting customer satisfaction feedback once users complete the trial period.
The document discusses Vodafone's Telecoms Management - Managed (VTM-M) service. VTM-M provides businesses with complete control and visibility over their global telecommunications, including fixed, mobile, voice and data usage across multiple providers and countries. It offers centralized reporting and inventory management through an intelligent cloud-based platform. VTM-M comes with managed services like invoice management, exception analysis, and cost allocation. Additional optional managed services include contract management, dispute management, and mobility/fixed line ordering and provisioning. The service aims to simplify managing complex global communications environments and optimize businesses' telecom operations.
The document discusses several telecommunication services including broadband internet, VOIP, IPTV, SMS gateway, and BlackBerry services. It provides details on the service portfolio, pipeline, demand management, financial management, design, supplier management, service level agreements, and continuity plans for each service. Key information included are the services offered, target customers, value propositions, pricing structures, components, and organizational responsibilities for managing the services.
TimelyBill's telecom billing system includes more than 50 tightly integrated components that support full customer life cycle. Whether you are looking at VoIP, Triple Play or Quad Play, TimelyBill's single stack solution was built to meet all of your back office needs.
Communications service providers need to create an optimal balance between their network operations center (NOC), service operations center (SOC), and experience operations center (EOC) in order to effectively track customer experience across the network and services. As customer demands increase with new technologies, the responsibilities of the NOC, SOC and EOC are blurring. To differentiate themselves, providers must monitor customer experience holistically across these three centers. Transitioning to also focus on SOC and EOC operations beyond just the NOC will allow providers to close the gap between perceived and actual customer experience.
Next generation network oss bss market and forecast 2013-2018 - Reports CornerReports Corner
"NGN promises a high quality end-user experience. Telecommunications service providers expect the NGN framework to provide them with tools that would ensure customer loyalty. However, the path towards achieving the ideal NGN is fraught with formidable challenges. The most critical challenge confronting operators is optimizing their OSS and BSS platforms, systems, and processes.
With research beginning in 2007, the report Next Generation Network OSS/BSS Market and Forecast 2013-2018 provides a comprehensive analysis of drivers and issues related to technical and business aspects of OSS/BSS deployments and developments while forecasting their growth over the next five years."
https://www.reportscorner.com/reports/20852/Next-Generation-Network-OSS/BSS-Market-and-Forecast-2013-2018/
Service Quality Management - OSS Requirements in SQM ecosystemComarch
Quality expectations of customers are increasing, thus acting as catalyst for changes in service providers’ business models and their approach to overall service quality management. Introduction of SDP and Service Delivery Framework has increased flexibility for easily creating and co-provisioning services, resulting in a more complex end-to-end business case for delivering services. This leads to a situation where managing overall quality becomes a challenge as the single operator plays only a linking role in the long supply chain of the services offered.
MS 2.0: Case Study of SOC ImplementationIbrahim Misto
Case Study of Implementing Service Operation Center (SOC) to enhance customer experience which I delivered @ the 9th Annual Managed Services World Congress, Cannes, France.
Business Process as a Service for Utilities: From Meter to CashCognizant
As utilities adopt smart meters, smart grids and other innovative digital technologies, deploying business process as a service (BPaaS) offers great benefits for operational efficiency, customer service and controlling IT expenses.
OSS & BSS systems are complicated because they must manage end-to-end telecom services across multiple vendors' elements from ordering to provisioning to payment. Standards bodies like the TM Forum provide reference models and frameworks to help with integration and interoperability, defining common processes, information models, and interfaces. Billing systems construct charging records from different network elements to enable subscriber billing and accounting between operators.
Evaluating the impacts of (Mobile) Cloud Computing on OSS/BSS LandscapeMuhammad Imran Awan
This document discusses how telecom service providers can leverage mobile cloud computing by transforming into cloud service providers. It would allow them to offer infrastructure, platform, and software as a service to enterprise and SMB customers. This transformation requires adapting the OSS/BSS systems to support cloud-based service delivery, billing, and management. Key areas that need enhancement in the OSS/BSS include service catalog, fulfillment, assurance, billing, and support for network as a service business models. Cross-network service providers will also play an important role in facilitating commercial and technical interactions between application service providers and multiple telecom operators in a mobile cloud environment.
Tech Mahindra is a global consulting firm focused on the communications industry. For over two decades, it has helped telecommunications companies transform their operations and generate new revenue through services such as network design, testing, and managed services. The document discusses Tech Mahindra's expertise in LTE service assurance, which allows communication providers to monitor service performance end-to-end and identify issues in order to improve customer experience.
Advanced Advertising Standards in the Cable SpaceSigma Systems
The document discusses advanced advertising standards and technologies in the cable industry. It provides an overview of key cable standards bodies like CableLabs and SCTE that are developing standards to deliver targeted advertising capabilities. The SCTE 130 standard defines interfaces for an advanced advertising system, while CableLabs specifications provide interfaces for ad campaign fulfillment and reporting. Demonstrations showed how these standards can enable an end-to-end targeted advertising solution across cable, IPTV and mobile platforms.
OSS/BSS Explained, Part 1: It used to be simple, now a massive transformation...Ericsson OSS/BSS
Customer experience is the foremost reason why operations and business support systems (OSS/BSS) have become a key area of investment for any communications services provider.
Learn more about Ericsson OSS/BSS: http://www.ericsson.com/realize
TABS is an integrated software package designed for mobile, ISP, and traditional fixed network services. It provides a convergent customer care and billing system that handles billing for all services through a single rating scheme. TABS solutions have been implemented in 38 sites for major telecom groups, providing continuous service for over 100 customers. The solution is based on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) that allows for customization and integration with existing systems. TABS offers various telecom solutions including billing, customer care, interconnect, revenue sharing, business intelligence, and call center solutions.
Mastering Service Management for Commercial Voice OfferingsSigma Systems
1) MSOs initially entered the commercial voice market with residential offers for small businesses but have expanded to offer more complex services for larger businesses.
2) Successfully providing commercial voice services requires establishing excellent customer service, developing new capabilities through strategic alliances, and enhancing OSS to support multiple sites, features, and customer self-care.
3) Beyond voice services, MSOs can pursue additional revenue opportunities by offering businesses services like remote data backup, managed security, video, and unified communications.
How Cloud Service Providers Can Effectively Monetize and Deliver the Ultimate...Comverse, Inc.
1. CSPs face challenges in monetizing cloud services including becoming a commodity, poor client satisfaction from billing, and missed revenue opportunities.
2. Effective monetization is key to minimizing risks, developing sustainable business models, and creating market differentiation for CSPs.
3. Billing models for CSPs must be flexible, value-based, and reflective of dynamic consumption patterns to meet enterprise needs and avoid issues like "bill shock".
This document discusses challenges faced by telecom operators and how product lifecycle management (PLM) systems can help address them. It describes SPMS, a PLM solution that provides a central hub for product information across departments. SPMS streamlines processes like rate plan development and approval through configuration tools, templates, and workflow automation. This improves efficiency, speeds time to market, and ensures regulatory compliance for telecom operators.
The document describes Comarch's portfolio of BSS/OSS solutions for telecommunications companies. It provides an overview of the key solutions in areas such as sales and customer management, billing, service fulfillment, network management, and analytics. Comarch aims to help telecom companies address the challenges of the digital era and optimize costs while improving customer experience and business efficiency. The portfolio includes solutions for CRM, billing, order management, customer self-service, and more that can be customized to meet individual company needs.
This document discusses how next generation cloud technology can help service providers compete in the business broadband market for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and distributed enterprises. It notes that price erosion has led to commoditization of broadband services, impacting revenues. Cloud services that efficiently and profitably deliver security and infrastructure management services can help differentiate providers and attract customers. Critical factors for successful cloud services include flexibility, ease of use, scalability, and centralized delivery from any device.
Telecom Billing Solutions By Sohag SarkarSohag Sarkar
This document provides an overview of telecom billing solutions. It discusses the evolution of billing systems from in-house developed systems in the 1980s to more complex third-party solutions today. The general billing process is described involving collecting call detail records from the network, rating calls according to customer plans, aggregating rated calls into invoices, and generating bills. The key components of a billing system including mediation, rating, and invoicing engines are explained. Finally, the document outlines the major functions performed by rating engines in processing usage records and preparing them for invoicing.
The document describes BillCall, a real-time billing and resource management solution for telecom carriers. BillCall provides interconnect mediation, routing, billing, rating, service activation and revenue settlement features. It offers smart rating and routing, revenue assurance capabilities, fraud management, billing and accounting, rates management, routing configuration, and security and scalability features. BillCall supports reconciliation and settlement, multi-currency billing, and integration with third party software.
The document outlines the operational structure and processes for transitioning to a new DSL voice over IP (VOIP) service. Key aspects include:
1) Deploying servers simultaneously across locations while ensuring consistent configurations and testing the service with select employees first.
2) Evaluating service parameters based on feedback and surveys to identify any issues before full rollout.
3) Maintaining configuration items, media libraries, and stores to manage the infrastructure.
4) Establishing configuration management and change management processes to ensure consistency and handle incidents.
5) Validating the service and collecting customer satisfaction feedback once users complete the trial period.
The document discusses Vodafone's Telecoms Management - Managed (VTM-M) service. VTM-M provides businesses with complete control and visibility over their global telecommunications, including fixed, mobile, voice and data usage across multiple providers and countries. It offers centralized reporting and inventory management through an intelligent cloud-based platform. VTM-M comes with managed services like invoice management, exception analysis, and cost allocation. Additional optional managed services include contract management, dispute management, and mobility/fixed line ordering and provisioning. The service aims to simplify managing complex global communications environments and optimize businesses' telecom operations.
The document discusses several telecommunication services including broadband internet, VOIP, IPTV, SMS gateway, and BlackBerry services. It provides details on the service portfolio, pipeline, demand management, financial management, design, supplier management, service level agreements, and continuity plans for each service. Key information included are the services offered, target customers, value propositions, pricing structures, components, and organizational responsibilities for managing the services.
TimelyBill's telecom billing system includes more than 50 tightly integrated components that support full customer life cycle. Whether you are looking at VoIP, Triple Play or Quad Play, TimelyBill's single stack solution was built to meet all of your back office needs.
Communications service providers need to create an optimal balance between their network operations center (NOC), service operations center (SOC), and experience operations center (EOC) in order to effectively track customer experience across the network and services. As customer demands increase with new technologies, the responsibilities of the NOC, SOC and EOC are blurring. To differentiate themselves, providers must monitor customer experience holistically across these three centers. Transitioning to also focus on SOC and EOC operations beyond just the NOC will allow providers to close the gap between perceived and actual customer experience.
Next generation network oss bss market and forecast 2013-2018 - Reports CornerReports Corner
"NGN promises a high quality end-user experience. Telecommunications service providers expect the NGN framework to provide them with tools that would ensure customer loyalty. However, the path towards achieving the ideal NGN is fraught with formidable challenges. The most critical challenge confronting operators is optimizing their OSS and BSS platforms, systems, and processes.
With research beginning in 2007, the report Next Generation Network OSS/BSS Market and Forecast 2013-2018 provides a comprehensive analysis of drivers and issues related to technical and business aspects of OSS/BSS deployments and developments while forecasting their growth over the next five years."
https://www.reportscorner.com/reports/20852/Next-Generation-Network-OSS/BSS-Market-and-Forecast-2013-2018/
Service Quality Management - OSS Requirements in SQM ecosystemComarch
Quality expectations of customers are increasing, thus acting as catalyst for changes in service providers’ business models and their approach to overall service quality management. Introduction of SDP and Service Delivery Framework has increased flexibility for easily creating and co-provisioning services, resulting in a more complex end-to-end business case for delivering services. This leads to a situation where managing overall quality becomes a challenge as the single operator plays only a linking role in the long supply chain of the services offered.
MS 2.0: Case Study of SOC ImplementationIbrahim Misto
Case Study of Implementing Service Operation Center (SOC) to enhance customer experience which I delivered @ the 9th Annual Managed Services World Congress, Cannes, France.
Business Process as a Service for Utilities: From Meter to CashCognizant
As utilities adopt smart meters, smart grids and other innovative digital technologies, deploying business process as a service (BPaaS) offers great benefits for operational efficiency, customer service and controlling IT expenses.
OSS & BSS systems are complicated because they must manage end-to-end telecom services across multiple vendors' elements from ordering to provisioning to payment. Standards bodies like the TM Forum provide reference models and frameworks to help with integration and interoperability, defining common processes, information models, and interfaces. Billing systems construct charging records from different network elements to enable subscriber billing and accounting between operators.
Evaluating the impacts of (Mobile) Cloud Computing on OSS/BSS LandscapeMuhammad Imran Awan
This document discusses how telecom service providers can leverage mobile cloud computing by transforming into cloud service providers. It would allow them to offer infrastructure, platform, and software as a service to enterprise and SMB customers. This transformation requires adapting the OSS/BSS systems to support cloud-based service delivery, billing, and management. Key areas that need enhancement in the OSS/BSS include service catalog, fulfillment, assurance, billing, and support for network as a service business models. Cross-network service providers will also play an important role in facilitating commercial and technical interactions between application service providers and multiple telecom operators in a mobile cloud environment.
Tech Mahindra is a global consulting firm focused on the communications industry. For over two decades, it has helped telecommunications companies transform their operations and generate new revenue through services such as network design, testing, and managed services. The document discusses Tech Mahindra's expertise in LTE service assurance, which allows communication providers to monitor service performance end-to-end and identify issues in order to improve customer experience.
Airtel developed a customer relationship model based on its global CRM project experiences. The model shows that strengthening customer relationships through relationship-building tactics leads to strong customer loyalty, profitability, and retention over time. Airtel measures these relationship-building tactics and outcomes continuously to ensure its business case requirements are achieved.
Role of service management in cloud enabled enterpriseSaboor Mubarak
This document discusses how IT service management needs to adapt for organizations adopting cloud computing. It describes the key aspects of cloud computing and ITSM. ITSM processes like service strategy, design, transition, and operation can help manage cloud services if applied properly. The document outlines how each ITSM process can be used in cloud environments for objectives like standard services, service levels, availability, and security. ITSM provides a structured approach to ensure cloud services are managed effectively and meet business needs.
Satellite service providers are looking to adopt Service Quality Management (SQM) techniques to better manage the growth in demand for satellite services. SQM applications provide an end-to-end view of the network to monitor service performance and ensure delivery of services according to Service Level Agreements (SLAs). By tracking key performance indicators and service metrics across network components, SQM solutions help operators minimize SLA violations, prioritize high-value services, and improve the customer experience as demand for satellite services intensifies.
This document discusses how to maximize the efficiency of benchmarking mobile networks and delivering optimal customer experience. It recommends taking a customer-centric approach using active testing and monitoring in addition to passive monitoring to identify issues before customers and reduce troubleshooting time. Active monitoring from probes can provide network statistics, traces, and user experience metrics to help operators efficiently manage network capacity and customer experience on complex 4G networks experiencing high traffic growth.
SURE! Subscription Billing & Relationship Management for IaaS providers SURE!
Learn how SURE! end to end Subscription Billing and Relationship Management can become a right solution for IaaS providers to streamline their business models.
SURE! is a Magnaquest product. SURE! is an end-to-end Subscription Lifecycle Management Platform from Magnaquest. SURE! supports different domains like Cloud (IaaS, SaaS, Unified Communication) Broadband (FTTX, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Cable, ADSL) , Dual Play, Triple Play Telecom, MVNO & M2M, Pay TV (Cable, DTH, DTT, Broadcaster, IPTV, OTT) and Home Utilities. SURE! has been redefining and catalyzing ROI of our clients, spread globally, in verticals like Media & Entertainment, Broadband and Cloud businesses, with a product suite spanning Billing and Revenue Management, CRM, Session Control, OSS and Campaign management.
Application SLA - the missing part of complete SLA managementComarch
How can operators ensure that the proper quality of so many complex services is delivered? Has the software for network and service monitoring enough functionality to provide the right information? Fortunately, OSS systems have evolved, and they currently contain functionalities allowing the
operator to build comprehensive service management platforms. Today, operators cannot even think about delivering modern services of a high quality without providing a SLA. This means that service assurance with SLAs becomes the most critical aspect of modern OSS solutions. Additionally, since most modern services are built based on a number of applications, delivering the services over network, the applications are becoming the core of the service models.
BSS Applications Managed Services for CSPsSaurabh Jain
This document discusses the market for managed services for communications service providers' (CSPs') business support systems (BSS) applications. It finds that the market is growing as CSPs seek to improve agility, reduce costs, and focus on their core businesses. Leading providers in this market include telecom-focused companies like Amdocs, Ericsson, Huawei, and NetCracker, as well as general IT services firms, though telecom-specific firms have an advantage. The document analyzes the market positioning of various providers and finds that network equipment providers leading the market as CSPs prefer to work with managed services providers that combine network and IT capabilities.
The document discusses how IT departments spend their time and how their role is changing. It describes how IT is shifting from acquiring hardware to focusing on training, new skills, and reworking their model. It also outlines how communication and cloud services are evolving from individually managed solutions to unified "as a service" offerings that are fully managed and outsourced.
Carriers and other service providers are making the transformation to the \'Telco 2.0\' business model by leveraging their networks to distribute Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, and many other On Demand Services.
To achieve their business
objectives, increase competitiveness, and improve end user QoE, Communication Service Providers need to achieve a level of operational excellence — a philosophy of leadership, teamwork and problem solving resulting in continuous improvement throughout the organization — in all functional areas. This requires effective integration of network transformation programs
with efforts to consolidate the previous separate worlds of IT, network operations and customer care.
Telecom Billing's evolving role in post pc eraEhtisham Rao
With OTT proliferation in the mobile business, telecom operators are struggling to redefine the value of their services for operators. Business models abound, billing remains a key opportunity area for telecoms. this talk covers high level telecom interventions related to billing and their evaluation as source of sustainable competitive advantage.
CEM (Customer Experience Management) focuses on managing the customer experience from the customer's perspective, taking a more holistic view than CRM. Key drivers for CEM include market maturity, economic trends, new technologies, and changes in customer behavior and preferences. Implementing an effective CEM program requires coordination across the organization and can follow the CMMI maturity framework with focus on people, processes, systems, and governance. CEM builds upon CRM processes and aims to improve customer satisfaction by understanding what is important to customers.
Mobile subscriber experience software allows operators to better understand subscribers, optimize networks, and manage congestion. It provides analytics on subscriber usage and location data to improve quality of service. Effective solutions help reduce costs, increase revenue, and enhance the subscriber experience through features like intelligent charging, congestion management, and location awareness. Maintaining high network quality is also important for optimizing the mobile experience.
VPN as the Key for a Successful MSP BusinessSafar Safarov
“VPN as the Key for a Successful MSP Business” is a Tactical eHandbook that reveals Virtual Private Networks as the tactics of a successful delivering of managed services and presupposes that you are an IT Services Provider whose strategy is delivering of managed services already. Please be aware that Virtual Private Networks are considered in the eHandbook as a way of delivering of managed services, but not as a service itself.
This document discusses service quality management. It provides definitions and outlines some key aspects of service quality management including monitoring end-to-end services for customers, using data aggregation and service mapping tools, defining key quality indicators, and having interfaces to allow information sharing between service providers. It also lists some quality management tools like check sheets, control charts, Pareto charts, scatter plots, and Ishikawa diagrams. Finally it mentions some related topics in service quality management that have additional resources available.
NOC to SOC: A Next-Gen Approach to Understanding and Proactively Assuring Cus...Alex Johnson
Operators are moving from a Network Operations Center (NOC) model focused on network performance to a Service Operations Center (SOC) model focused on understanding customer experience with different services like Facebook, YouTube, and phone calls. A SOC provides real-time insight into how customers are using services and experiencing issues in order to quickly fix problems and improve customer satisfaction. Implementing a SOC requires analyzing vast data sources using big data solutions to understand customer behaviors and service performance. This allows operators to make smarter operational and business decisions based on customer intelligence.
Redefine the Delivery of Financial Services Journeys That Clients LOVE! [inQu...Antony Adelaar
This is the slideware used in a live inQuba & Microsoft webinar hosted on the 23rd of September 2020.
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10. a need for major shift in the mobile service management paradigm! The advent of Mobile Broadband Services demands a major shift in the mobile service management paradigm… Users are today doing much more with their mobile devices; Browsing/Chatting, Video Streaming, VOIP, Social Media/FB, Online games, File Sharing etc. Mobile network technologies have changed and continuously evolving, 3G, 4G/WiMAX, LTE; Data traffic (mainly video*) is rapidly surpassing Voice; so is the need to evolve mobile networks’ service management approach. Fixed Mobile Convergence*! Focus of Service Assurance must change from mere Network Management to the Management of Quality Of Services and the Applications delivered over the network in a more end2end fashion!
11. Managing Customer’s QoE & Increasing Loyalty is Vital to Mobile Broadband service value chain With increasing saturation & rising competition, CEM is becoming indispensible for Telecom SPs Despite the highest Growth/Revenue Potential in Broadband & Data services area, it’s increasingly difficult and expensive to establish clear competitive advantage merely with new offers & packages. Need to refocus on CE! Customers, who have signed up for expensive data service packages, expect a quality user experience. When they don’t get it, they become a strong candidate for churn Mobile Operators increasingly need the solutions that can measure & timely report the impacts of each Network behavior on the service quality delivered to their subscribers Don’t wait for the customers to complain. Most of them never will – they just leave. You have to be proactive!
12. Managing Customer’s QoE & Increasing Loyalty is Vital to Mobile Broadband service value chain PROFITABLE GROWTH
13. Key Factors driving ‘Pro-Active Service Assurance’ for MBB SPs MBB growth is driving investments in Ethernet Backhaul where proactive monitoring solutions are needed to guarantee SLAs between wholesale and mobile CSPs There’s an increasing focus to guarantee Quality of Experience for customers, which has to leverage from Quality of Service management. E.g. Mobile TV* SPs are looking for a unified view of their network with ability to expedite troubleshooting from the service & application layer right down to the underpinning infrastructure components Proactive Capacity Planning to avoid fallouts; this requires a continuously proactive view into the resource & service performance
14. Integrating E2E SQM across ‘All-IP Transport’, ‘Ethernet Backhaul’ & ‘Wireless’ networks Data Center SGSN IP/MPLS Transport Ethernet Backhaul OSS INTEGRATION FRAMEWORK VLR HLR RNC PLMN MSC / Call Server Node B MGW GGSN BTS Leased Line Backhaul PSTN/ISDN
19. Building blocks of SQM Service Quality Management (Tech) Services Catalog Trouble Tickets & Change Mgmt Network & Service Inventory Resource & Service Provisioning / OM Resource & Service Performance Mgmt* Resource & Service Fault Mgmt Hosted Email Business Apps Devices RAN IP Core 3G Core Backhaul SDPs Mobile TV
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21. QOE – Service performance views per subscriber type/group*, e.g. Enterprise subscriber/MVNO
26. Offering & Managing Service Levels – Evolving from SQM to SLM SQM data/ KQIs can be further analyzed to evaluate SLA compliance and breaches, by setting thresholds for warnings & violations Service Models publishing from SQM into SLM SLA Catalog drives the key SLM configurations Managing & Reporting SLAs, OLA & UCs SLA Performance status dashboards Penalties and Rebates Management SLA Lifecycle management / SCM Customer Portal for SLA Performance
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28. More Customer & Service centric approach / High-quality services for high-value customers
32. Should help to lower operations costs: Optimized expansions - Prioritized customer problem resolution
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Editor's Notes
Assalamu Alaikum & Hello Everybody! my name is Muhammad Imran Awan and I would like to warmly welcome all of you for this ½ an hour session where we’ll try to speak about the management & monitoring aspects of MBB service so that our customers can receive a sustained & superior quality of various MBB related services & applications. While I understand you had been listening a lot since yesterday about the business and commercial aspects of Mobile Broadband from various experts , so probably this session would be a bit of change as we’ll be talking a bit technical here, but I can assure you that it wont be that much technically deep to bore you-:) And before we jump into the content, let me mention that you should please feel free to ask any questions during the course of my presentation or at the end of this session, or even later you can approach me at my email address which should be available at the conference website….
SQM is one of the Assurance processes under Operations domain, and this how eTOM defines it: “” and that specific service under our discussion today as you know is MBB, so we’ll try to understand during the course of this presentation how we can effectively monitor, analyze and improve the quality of MBB & related services.Another related term which I would like to quickly mention is the Service Level Management, the so-called SLM, which primarily comes from ITIL domain and is usually defined as “” so probably by the end of this presentation we’ll also try to see how the service providers can leverage their SQM capabilities to externally commit & contractually manage a set of differentiated Service Levels for their customers, potentially as a value-added sellable service.Backup:eTOM defines “Customer QoS/SLA Management” as:Monitoring, managing and reporting of delivered vs. contractual Quality of Service (QoS), as defined in the enterprise’s service descriptions, customer contracts or product catalogue.We might be using the terms of SQM, Service Assurance, QoS Monitoring quite interchangeably
Data services are the fastest growing revenue stream for mobile service providers. Its expected that almost 66 percent of the world's mobile data traffic will be video by 2014. Handset Video calling, Video Media sharing across enabled handsets, and use of mobile broadband on notebooks/netbooks for video streaming will drive its adoption, And as a result Mobile providers need to focus on a strategy for real-time QoE!Introduction of Convergent Network services (e.g. spanning across Fixed & Mobile technologies) also mandates the need for End2End SA/SQM practices & mindsetto be adopted, along with better automation and least human intervention
Due to the increasing saturationand rising competition in Telecommunications market, CEM is becoming much more relevant & indispensible for Telecom Service Providers in general. Service Providers today find themselves confronted with the growing challenge of setting themselves apart from competitors and securing the sustained loyalty of their customers at the same time. Despite freeoffers to attract and retain customers, eye-catching promotions for advanced smart phones, SMS “for life”, and unlimited data packages,tariffs and service plans across mobile markets are broadly similar. Consequently, it’s increasingly difficult – and expensive – to establishclear competitive advantage. With this in mind, service providers are refocusing attention on the subscriber experience!
Due to the increasing saturationand rising competition in Telecommunications market, CEM is becoming much more relevant & indispensible for Telecom Service Providers in general. Service Providers today find themselves confronted with the growing challenge of setting themselves apart from competitors and securing the sustained loyalty of their customers at the same time; however since the maximum growth potential lies in the broadband services domain so this is where we have the utmost need of maintaining the customer experience to prevent revenue leakage through churn!
If we look at the key factors and areas which are mandating the need to have a Proactive Service Assurance approach & toolset for MBB Service providers, these include “”. With service providers increasingly providing streaming and real-time mobile data services (e.g. Mobile TV), it is imperative to report on end-to-end service quality parameters – namely latency, packet loss and jitter/delay-variation.High growth rates for mobile Internet imply diligent capacity planning not only for the packet core elements (GGSNs and SGSNs) but also for the supporting switching and routing devices down to the interface levels. Capacity and Design improvement decisions like this have to be made proactively:“My West Region GGSN seems to be getting the most Internet traffic. Are the supporting switches and routers well equipped for the next year?”
The lack of linkages and cross visibility between mobile packet core and IP core networks The lack of integration between the different organizations and toolsets assigned to manage various parts of the networksThe problem is that there are times when systems report that everything is working as it should while customers contact call centerswith problems. At the heart of the limitations of network-centric monitoring are two interrelated issues: service diversity, and diagnosing and resolving problems
In many Service Provider organizations, no-one actually owns the subscriber service experience as neither have a view into neighbouring domains... Segmented operations and tools!
SP are asking today How do I manage new content-based services that span NETWORK & IT OPERATIONS/Datacenters?Once we have setup the right practices and tools to proactively monitor the end2end Mobile Infrastructure performance, it is equally & increasingly more important to thoroughly monitor the performance of Mobile Applications & Services (hosted internally or outside) in order to measure & report on the E2E Service Performance for Mobile Broadband service value chain. Now there could be multiple options to actually monitor the performance of Application services; it could include PDP Context Analysis, Deep Packet Inspection, Gathering GTP data from user & control planes etc. all this could be handled by a suitable APM application software which can then provide processed KPIs data to an E2E SQM application. In case of internally hosted business Apps, we could perform Application availability & response monitoring thru simulation/software probes and the results could be exported as KPIs again.
Service Quality management is an overlay function/system which requires a well defined, integrated and optimized Resource Provisioning, Fault & Performance management practice and toolset to be in first put in place as depicted in this block diagram; Performance Management has a special role to play here as this where we get the proactive view of how the resources and services could be behaving in near future, by using predictive trending on performance & capacity issues. And the good news is that all of these underlying functions & systems are usually present at most service providers, though in silos; however the evolution towards and E2E Service Quality Management approach & toolset is something not always there and hence this is on the agenda of our discussion today.The purpose of a TSC is for the SQM solution to be dynamically catalog driven for creation of service models and service definitions, as to be used for service impact calculations resulting from network/technical events. CRM integration could be included to provide the customer impact information when certain network resources or services are under a problem condition. And as I had just mentioned on the first slide that having an E2E SQM capability is one of the prime requirements for further being able to offer Service Levels and manage the SLAs & Customer Experience effectively….
KPI: “A measure of quality performance of network resources, e.g. a GPRS PDP context Activation Success Rate in areas where subscribers don’t have direct visibility.”KQI: “The measure of a specific aspect of the performance of a product, product components or service elements and is drawn from data from a number of resources.”QoE views could be created per subscriber types e.g. quality of email service for Blackberry subscribers, or quality of browsing for USB Data SIM customers etc. etc.
Currently in most service providers there is a lack of business-centric metrics available for consumer/broadband services that would help product management and marketing better plan these services and reduce customer churn; a rightly integrated and optimized SQM solution could help in this regard with necessary business service information enrichment. Also the solution could include dashboards for corporations that purchase enterprise data services (private APNs), enabling these corporations to view the performance of the respective private data service they have purchased from the carrier. It could also include a high level view of packet core performance that the service provider could offer to MVNOs. This enables the operator to build trust among existing customers and also offer reporting capabilities as an incentive for potential wholesale customers; or could be potentially sold a value-added premium service.
Currently in most service providers there is a lack of business-centric metrics available for consumer/broadband services that would help product management and marketing better plan these services and reduce customer churn; a rightly integrated and optimized SQM solution could help in this regard with necessary business service information enrichment. Also the solution could include dashboards for corporations that purchase enterprise data services (private APNs), enabling these corporations to view the performance of the respective private data service they have purchased from the carrier. It could also include a high level view of packet core performance that the service provider could offer to MVNOs. This enables the operator to build trust among existing customers and also offer reporting capabilities as an incentive for potential wholesale customers; or could be potentially sold a value-added premium service.
Empowered with this comprehensive e2e visibility, service providers will be able to more quickly troubleshoot and focus on the root causes of service degradation issues before customers are negatively impacted. This will also help them proactively plan the network capacities keeping in view the subscriber behavior and usage of the services offered.Such a holistic Service Quality Assurance approach should help the MBB service providers to prevent the ongoing explosion of data traffic volumes result in increase of their Operational Costs and decline of quality of services and customerbase.