Abstract
“Spending on service delivery platforms will remain strong despite the
current economic climate.” Peter Mottishaw, Principal Analyst.
We forecast rapid growth in spending on service delivery platforms (SDPs),
from USD3.09 billion in 2008 to USD6.05 billion in 2013, at a 14% CAGR. This
is significantly down from our forecast a year ago. The principal change is
reduced SDP spending in 2009 and the first half of 2010. We forecast a return
to rapid growth in SDP spending from 2011 onwards, as the global economy
recovers and communication service providers (CSPs) return to more-normal
spending patterns.
The deployment of an SDP is usually a major project for a CSP. It requires
integration with network enablers, mobile portals, billing systems, customer
care systems and OSS. It often requires a major marketing effort to define and
launch the package of services that the SDP supports. It sometimes involves
new business models and strategic partners that require careful strategic
analysis. Most CSPs have been through this process a number of times to
support different services and in different business units. As a consequence,
there is already a legacy of custom-built and product-based SDP infrastructure.
In this report, we focus on quantifying spending on the product components of
an SDP; this includes the licence revenue from new deployments, the
maintenance revenue from installed base and the professional services directly
related to product deployment. The product components we include in SDP are
telecoms application servers (TASs), mobile content management and delivery
(MCMD), mobile device management (MDM) and real-time charging (RTC).
The report addresses the following important questions:
- What technologies and services will have an impact on investments in the
SDP market?
- What is the impact of CSP application stores on the SDP opportunity?
- How is the supplier landscape changing and which supplier is
best-positioned in each segment?
- What impact will the global recession have on SDP spending?
The report includes tables comparing 51 suppliers. The leading suppliers'
market shares are provided for the SDP market overall as well as each of the
application areas. Overall, this 85-page report is an excellent source of
market intelligence for CSPs, network equipment and software suppliers,
systems integrators, venture capitalists and financial analysts.
Table of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Figure 1: 2008-2013 Global service delivery spending
- Market Share
- Figure 2: 2008 Service delivery platforms overall market share
- Figure 3: 2008 Service delivery platforms product market share
- Figure 4: 2008 Service delivery platforms professional services market
share
- Overall Service Delivery Platforms Forecast
- Application Segments Forecast Overview
- Figure 5: 2008-2013 Global SDP forecast by application segment
- Forecast by Communications Service
- Figure 6: 2008-2013 Global SDP forecast by telecom service Forecast by
Region
- Figure 7: 2008-2013 Global SDP forecast by region
- Telecom Application Servers
- Market share
- Figure 8: 2008 Telecom application servers market share
- Forecast
- Figure 9: 2008-2013 Global telecom application servers forecast
- Forecast by Communications Service
- Figure 10: 2008-2013 Telecom application servers forecast by
telecommunication service
- Forecast by Region
- Figure 11: 2008-2013 Telecom application servers forecast by region
- Mobile Content Management and Delivery
- Market share
- Figure 12: 2008 Mobile content management and delivery market share
- Forecast
- Figure 13: 2008-2013 Global mobile content management and delivery forecast
- Forecast by Region
- Figure 14: 2008-2013 Mobile content management and delivery forecast by
region
- Mobile Device Management
- Market Share
- Figure 15: 2008 Mobile device management market share
- Forecast
- Figure 16: 2008-2013 Global mobile device management forecast
- Forecast by Region
- Figure 17: 2008-2013 Mobile Device Management forecast by region
- Real-time Charging
- Market Share
- Figure 18: 2008 Real-time charging market share
- Forecast
- Figure 19: 2008-2013 Global real-time charging forecast
- Forecast by communications service
- Figure 20: 2008-2013 Real-time charging forecast by communication service
- Forecast by Region
- Figure 21: 2008-2013 Real-time charging forecast by region
- Market Drivers
- Drivers
- Competition
- Emerging markets with high subscriber growth
- Partner enablement and new business models
- Growth in mobile data services
- Success of iPhone App Store and growth in carrier application
- Replacement and enhancement of legacy service layer
- Reduce cost of developing new services
- IPTV deployment
- IMS deployment
- Convergence of internet, mobile and wireline services
- Inhibitors
- CSPs fail to find differentiated services
- Developer ecosystem don' t achieve critical mass
- Bit pipe providers succeed without an SDP
- Increasing complexity of mobile devices and the service layer
- CSP organizational and system integration challenges
- Business Environment
- Figure 22: Telecom architecture functional layers
- Recent Examples of SDP Deployments and Announcements
- Success of Internet ervices
- Growth in importance of third party content and service providers
- Evolution of the telecom control layer
- Introduction of IT platforms into the telecoms service layer
- Market Definition
- Figure 23: Service delivery platform in OSS Observer segmentation
- Telecom Application Server Definition
- Figure 24: Telecom application server functions
- Telecom Service exposure layer
- Telecom service creation environment
- Service execution environment
- Network abstraction layer
- Mobile Content Management
- Figure 25: Mobile content management functions
- Mobile Device Management
- Figure 26: Mobile device management functions
- Real-time Dharging
- Figure 27: Typical RTC deployment scenario
- Active Mediation
- Complex Real-time Rating
- SDP Vendor Summaries
- Acision
- Aepona
- Airwide
- Alcatel-Lucent
- Amdocs
- App Trigger
- Avaya
- Broadsoft
- Comptel
- Comverse
- Convergin
- Convergys
- Digital Route
- Ericsson
- FTS
- HP
- Huawei
- IBM
- InnoPath
- Intec
- Italtel
- JNETx
- Mformation
- Microsoft
- MobileAware
- MobileThink
- Motorola
- Motricity
- NEC
- Nokia Siemens Networks
- Nortel
- OpenCloud
- Openet
- OpenWave
- Oracle
- Orga Systems
- Personeta
- Qualcomm
- Redknee
- SAP
- Sicap
- SmartTrust
- Synapse
- Tecnomen
- Tekelec
- Telenity
- Ventraq
- Vignette
- Volantis
- VoluBill
- SDP Suppliers
- Table 1: Comparison of service delivery platform suppliers
- Recommendations
- Recommendations for CSPs
- Recommendations for vendors
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