Pipeline Publishing, Volume 7, Issue 1

	This Month's Issue:
	Into the Cloud

OSS Leveraging the Cloud

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The level of penetration that an OSS/BSS application requires, and the level of customization it necessitates to deal with a particular users business composition makes the idea of extending these systems across the cloud a tall order.

But that’s not to say it can’t be done.

In talking to vendors, especially, over the past few months, a number of them are convinced that, especially in smaller markets, emerging markets, or other Greenfield settings, there’s no reason that the cloud can’t work as a tool for extending OSS and BSS solutions. It will take some work, but the distributed nature of many modern operators, combined with the cost pressures of smaller carriers, mean that there is a vast amount of potential.

And so I turn it to you, CSPs and vendors.

Service providers: Are you amenable to the idea of cloud-based OSS/BSS? Do you think that would improve your understanding of and comfort with the idea of cloud computing and, in turn, make you a more effective provider of cloud solutions to external customers?

Service providers: Are you amenable to the idea of cloud-based OSS/BSS?

Vendors: Are you prepared to publish into the cloud and offer your products to providers as a SaaS or PaaS solution? Is this something you’re doing already?

I encourage you to give it some thought and contact me at tim@pipelinepub.com to let me know where you are and where you’re headed.

There’s no question that the cloud contains potential. However, I, like many, am trying to understand how deep the potential is and how direct the benefit could be for the OSS/BSS crowd and the service provider community, as a whole.

Is this the sort of thing the telecom set is just enabling, or can it really be a game-changer in the way we all do business?

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