[March 19, 2012]

Infonetics Research: App Stores and Enterprise Drive Service Delivery Platform (SDP) Spending

Market research firm Infonetics Research today released excerpts from its March Service Delivery Platform Software and Services report, which tracks the wireless and fixed-line service delivery platform (SDP) software and services that operators use to create and deliver services to their subscribers.

ANALYST NOTE

"Ongoing capital constraints are driving operators' interest in service delivery platform solutions that go beyond the traditional software licensing model," says Shira Levine, Infonetics Research's (News - Alert) directing analyst for next gen OSS and policy. "We're seeing growing demand for alternatives such as cloud-based delivery, turnkey application storefronts for consumer and enterprise customers, and revenue-sharing models, and we expect that trend to continue as operators look to create a more predictable cost structure around their SDP deployments."

SDP MARKET HIGHLIGHTS

• The global service delivery platform (SDP) software and services market grew 16% between 2010 and 2011, to $3.2 billion
• Infonetics forecasts the SDP software and services market to hit $5.8 billion by 2016
• Huawei (News - Alert)'s focus on alternative software delivery models, such as hosted models and software-as-a-service, propelled it to the leading position in the overall SDP service market, followed very closely by Ericsson (News - Alert)
• In the SDP software segment, Oracle continues to lead, with Huawei close behind
• The SDP market is experiencing double-digit percent annual growth in large part due to operator interest in:
  • Developing app stores - not just for consumers but increasingly for enterprises, such as those in the M2M, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, education, and transportation verticals
  • Offering customized mobile advertising
  • Managing exploding levels of content downloads by mobile broadband subscribers
  • Developing API exposure strategies that enable them to create a richer ecosystem of content partners

REPORT SYNOPSIS

Infonetics' biannual SDP report provides regional and worldwide market size, vendor market share, forecasts through 2016, and analysis for fixed-line and mobile SDP software, services, and components. The report tracks revenue for consulting, integration and hosted SDP services, and the 5 main SDP software components: network and subscriber abstraction, SDP framework, service creation environment, service orchestration, and Web services environment. Vendors tracked: Accenture, Aepona, Alcatel-Lucent (News - Alert), Amdocs, Atos, Datatronics, Ericsson, HP, Huawei, IBM, Nokia Siemens, Oracle, Tata, TechMahindra, TietoEnator, Volantis, ZTE, and others. The report also includes customer wins and service provider/vendor announcements made by Aircel, Globe Telecommunications, Korea Telecom, KPN, Neustar, Rogers Communications, SK Telecom (News - Alert), TELUS, The Qtel Group and others. /p>

• Latest Infonetics Next Gen OSS and Policy research newsletter: http://bit.ly/FPMfrp
• Telecom operators rate policy vendors in Infonetics survey; Tekelec, Openet top players
• Convergent charging passes the billion-dollar mark in 2011, up 42%
• Subscriber data management market set to jump 55% in 2011 to $563 million
• Millions opting into shared data plans represent huge opportunity for mobile operators
• Mobile operators fueling hockey-stick growth in standalone deep packet inspection market
• Competition heating up in policy management market as role of policy evolves

UPCOMING MARKET FORECASTS AND SURVEYS

Download report prospectuses, tables of contents, etc. at http://www.infonetics.com/login (see Next Gen OSS and Policy).

• Download Infonetics' 2012 Research Publication Calendar: http://bit.ly/zwjcRs
• Convergent Charging Software and Services
• Policy Management Software
• Service Provider Deep Packet Inspection Products
• Subscriber Data Management Software and Services
• Convergent Charging Deployment Strategies: Global Service Provider Survey
• SDP Deployment Strategies: Global Service Provider Survey

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

Infonetics continues to rapidly expand and is looking to hire more analysts. See http://bit.ly/jmXOYO for current job openings, which include a senior Video analyst and market analyst with enterprise VoIP expertise.

SALES

• Larry Howard, VP, Western NA, Asia, CALA: [email protected], +1-408-583-3335
• Scott Coyne, Eastern NA, Texas, Midwest: [email protected], +1-408-583-3395
• George Stojsavljevic, EMEA: [email protected], +44-755-488-1623
• Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan: http://www.infonetics.com/contact.asp

Infonetics Research is an international market research and consulting firm serving the communications industry since 1990. A leader in defining and tracking emerging and established technologies in all world regions, Infonetics helps clients plan, strategize, and compete more effectively.

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