Webinars & Podcasts
The Webinars and Podcasts provide an extensive, content rich portfolio of thought provoking OSS Transformation topics. Click on the links below to read a short summary of each broadcast and then to download the content:
- Closed Loop Planning for Next-Generation Networks: Planning is the process of deciding and managing how networks should evolve over time. It is a process that, though supported by increasingly sophisticated tools, has remained largely unaffected by changes in network technology, until now.
The webinar explores the radical impact that NGN has on Planning, and offers an equally radical vision for the new role and architecture of Planning in an NGN world
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- Delivering Capacity Management and Planning: The OSS industry is currently moving away from bespoke solutions towards commercial off the shelf (COTS) software to meet their evolving OSS needs. The webinar takes an in-depth look at an integrated solution and provides an overview of supported business processes.
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- Fast Tracking the Data Integrity Lifecycle: Achieving accurate network data has been a constant priority for operators to ensure right-first-time network build, service fulfillment and service assurance processes. This webinar shows how fast-tracking the delivery of a complete Data Integrity Lifecycle breaks down the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) barriers that prevent this.
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- Fulfillment of Broadband Access Services: The growth in next generation, triple play (or n-Play) services such as IPTV and VoIP is unrelenting. Major fixed and mobile operators are initiating multi-billion dollar investment programs to transform their network and systems. The webinar explains how productising the processes required for the introduction of broadband access, reduces the time to market and the implementation costs for broadband services, whilst enhancing the future options for triple play services.
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- Integrated Service Management: As Service Providers look to improve customer experience, accelerate time-to-market, while at the same time reduce costs, they need to transform the way services are being fulfilled and assured. The webinar focuses on a revolutionary approach, aligned with the eTOM Service Management layer, that is being embraced by leading service providers such as BT and Telstra, at the core of their OSS Transformation.
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- Inventory Centric Activation: The growth in next generation, IP based services such as IPTV, VoIP and Gigabit Ethernet is unrelenting. Major fixed and mobile operators are initiating multi-billion dollar investment programs to transform their network and systems. The webinar looks at the renewed importance of activation as an essential and integral part of the next generation fulfillment process.
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- Network Build and Rollout Survey Results: It's all About Change : This briefing will discuss the results of an Analysys Mason survey in association with Amdocs on network build and rollout processes, tools and challenges of mobile, wireline, and cable TV Communications Service Providers (CSPs) of a variety of sizes and across all geographies.
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- OSS Convergence - Lessons Learned in Software Selection: Pressure on margins in the telecommunications industry is increasing, whilst the technical complexity of the underlying infrastructure is growing. Systems used to support operations must step up to the challenge, to achieve the scalability and flexibility required at a sustainable price. Convergence in OSS is inevitable - making the right choices here is crucial. The webinar looks at how one service provider, Completel in France, has understood the challenge and has started on the journey to OSS convergence.
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- OSS for Mobile Operators: The mobile industry is a highly competitive, fast moving and changing environment which places a huge strain on internal operations, processes and the balance sheet. The webinar explains how Cramer6 OSS Suite can be used to support the needs of mobile operators today and into the future.
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- OSS Transformation - Ten Tips for Competitive Advantage: It is abundantly clear that next generation networks have arrived and are here to stay. For many providers, however, operational support systems (OSS) are an obstacle rather than a catalyst for change. In this webinar Lars Yde, Head of Automation TDC, shares his top ten tips on running OSS Transformation successfully to achieve short-term and long-term goals simultaneously.
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- Self Service Network Operations: Innovation in operations is increasing at an unprecedented rate as service providers transform to meet the demands of providing new services quickly, cost effectively and at high volumes. As automation in operations increases, this podcast highlights issues and challenges in enabling network operations through corporate self service portals.
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- Surviving the Economic Downturn: In today’s economic climate, service providers need to conserve cash, slash operating costs and cut capital spending. At the same time, to beat the competition, they need to invest to maintain and improve the customer experience, which means delivering and assuring often complex products and services rapidly, consistently and cost-effectively.
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- The Role of Automated Planning in Delivering the Service-Ready Network: Capacity planning directly impacts opex as well as capex and is vital for a successful next-generation network business. In this article, Yankee Group’s Arindam Banerjee and Amdocs OSS Division’s Markus Buchner share their perspectives on the requirement for automated and proactive capacity planning and management, the role it plays in delivering the service-ready network and the benefits such an approach can deliver.
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- TM Forum Webinar: Placing Your Bets: Tuesday, June 15
10:00-11:00am New York / 3:00-4:00pm London
The future of the communications industry is changing rapidly and in order to prepare, service providers will need to explore new business models. Arguably no operators have yet "found the grail" — the business model which will enable them to ensure a profitable future even while the threats from Internet players and other non-traditional competitors multiply. But there are no shortages of experience and best practice for operators to call upon.
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