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advertising-based revenues, syndicated services, and aggregators of content. New and traditional players in this new ecosystem will find it beneficial to attend events such as TMF.
Intec: It follows the current evolution within the industry. Most telecoms are starting to look more like media companies, which broadens the scope of discussion.
Our View:
We have our own take on the plans for Management World Orlando show. First of all, we're pleased to see that the TM Forum is shaking things up somewhat in an attempt to attract new and different service providers. A new location may be just what the doctor ordered (though we're not entirely sure that resort destinations are always favorable over urban destinations that contain enterprise and service provider representatives that constitute a built-in audience... Las Vegas didn't represent an improvement over Chicago
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The venue change is a very positive development. As Management World grows and attracts participants from South America, Orlando's location and modern facilities will contribute to making the event even more successful. |
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ConceptWave
ConceptWave will be exhibiting at partner booths (HP, Aricent and Subex). In addition, ConceptWave will have an executive briefing room for pre-arranged appointments and product demonstration.
Nakina
Nakina Systems will be in booth #128 displaying their management software, and showing how it's helping network operations teams efficiently deploy, manage, and secure
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for NXTcomm/Supercomm.). All the same, if the new location can prove more inviting to SPs, particularly SPs from CALA, it's worth it. We see a fair degree of overlap between the Management World events in Nice and North America. We'd like to see the North American show differentiate itself a bit more.
Furthermore, this is the first Management World event since the inclusion of IPSphere under the TM Forum umbrella, which represents an even greater expansion of the Forum's focus. We don't want to seem overly cautious, but we feel the need, as an OSS/BSS-focused publication, to caution against shedding the focus that has made the TM Forum and the Management World event special in the past for the sake of inclusion. Ultimately, however, we will gladly reserve judgment until after the event.
The Expo:
Here's a look at some of the specific plans a few OSS/BSS companies have, going into the 2008 Management World Orlando:
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their next generation networks. Also on the agenda is an address by Jay Borden (CEO of Nakina Systems and formerly the founder and CEO of Granite Systems) entitled The Death of Innovation: The Looming Destruction of the Telecommunications Software Industry (TO 3) on Tuesday, November 21st at 4pm. As Borden sees it, recent trends are threatening to stifle innovation in key areas of the supply chain. As a result, incumbent service providers risk becoming low-value transport pipes vulnerable to more nimble innovators like Google. Is telecom software innovation doomed? What can the industry do to reverse the trend?
TTI Telecom
TTI Telecom will be displaying its latest approaches to customer-centric service management. More specifically, the team at TTI Telecom will be involved in the Harmony Catalyst, phase 3. Phase 3 of the Harmony Catalyst project will pick up where the project left off in the last TMW showcase, and will focus primarily on Customer Experience
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