Research and Markets: Analysing the Service Management Market from 2004-2009

Research and Markets (researchandmarkets.com/reports/c15060) has announced the addition of OSS Service Management to their offering.

Dublin (PRWEB) April 6, 2005 -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c15060) has announced the addition of OSS Service Management to their offering.

The trend toward service-based bundled solutions has created an entire new market for software automation systems. This sub-segment of service assurance, which we term service management, provides greater operational insight into service availability and performance.

This 16-page report provides a detailed forecast on the service management market from 2004-2009. The report provides business drivers for spending in this fast growing segment of OSS and list mobile operators that are actively deploying solutions today. The top five service management vendors, their customers, and solution approach is summarized. In addition, 30 other suppliers are evaluated including new suppliers that have recently entered the market.

Features:
-Market drivers and inhibitors. A convergent network will require a different business approach to managing more complex services that cross many network domains.
-Assessments of Top Five leading vendors market positions, with detailed product descriptions.
-How does service management leverage other systems and how will funding influence other OSS segments.
-Thirty (30) additional vendors identified whose influence is growing in the service management marketplace.
-Recommendations for pursuing and implementing a service management initiative.

Key questions answered
How big is this market today?
How fast will it grow over the next 4 years?
Which telecommunication segments will invest the most?
Will technology complexity inhibit investments?

Companies Mentioned:
-Agilent
-Aran Technologies
-Argogroup
-Brix Networks
-Casabyte
-Columbia Movil
-Digital Fuel
-HP
-Lucent
-Mformation
-Mycom
-O2
-Oblicore
-Orange
-Swisscom
-Telcordia
-T-Mobile
-Vodafone
-WatchMark-Comnitel

Who should read this report?
Executives from communications service providers and software vendors who need to understand the dynamics of this fast-changing market. This report enables service provider executives to draft a short list of OSS suppliers to evaluate. Software vendors will gain an understanding of market driver. Suppliers will gain insight into their companys market position in relation to competitors.

Illustrative Tables and Charts featured:

Table 1: Mobile CSPs active in SM deployments
Table 2: Agilent products
Table 3: HP products
Table 4: Telcordia products
Table 5: Lucent products
Table 6: WatchMark-Comnitel products
Table 7: New entrant wireless SM suppliers
Table 8: SM suppliers
Table 9: Commercial 3G networks

Figure 1: Global service management forecast
Figure 2: New paradigm for managing mobile services
Figure 3: Service management architecture view
Figure 4: SM forecast by segment
Figure 5: European mobile service revenue
Figure 6: Vodafones voice and non-voice revenue

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c15060

Laura Wood
Senior Manager
Research and Markets
press@researchandmarkets.com
Fax: +353 1 4100 980

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