Research Catalog

Title

Vertical software industry evolution : analysis of telecom operator software / Pasi Tyrväinen, Oleksiy Mazhelis, editors.

Publication

Heidelberg : Physica Verlag, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Tyrväinen, Pasi.
• Mazhelis, Oleksiy.

Description

xi, 153 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

The Communication Service Providers (CSP) business is in turmoil. Telecom operators providing communication services constructed the infrastructure of the global information society with their trillion investments on various telecommunication technologies from broadband to mobile. Their investments on software turned their technology-specific in-house procedures into modern layered OSS/BSS. This book analyzes the status and the future evolution of OSS/BSS software industry from multiple viewpoints including technology diffusion, vertical disintegration and evolution of a vertical software industry. The analysis uses both commercial databases on software market transactions and interviews of operators in Europe and Far East, using quantitative and qualitative methods.

Series Statement

Contributions to management science

Uniform Title

Contributions to management science.

Subject

• Communications software
• Computer software industry
• Telecommunication > Software
• Industry
• Telecommunication

Genre/Form

Software.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-149) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Pasi Tyrväinen and Mirja Pulkkinen. Part I: Evolving software markets. Vertical software industries / Pasi Tyrväinen -- Theories related to vertical software industry evolution / Lauri Frank -- Model for evolution of a vertical software industry / Pasi Tyrväinen -- Overview of telecom operator software market / Eetu Luoma, Lauri Frank, and Mirja Pulkkinen. Part II: Current state of the telecom software market. Process improvement through software / Olli Martikainen -- Effect of software on CSP performance / Oleksiy Mazhelis, Pasi Tyrväinen and Kimmo Suojapelto -- Insights from operator interviews / Mirja Pulkkinen and Jari Veijalainen -- Analyzing the current phase of the OSS/BSS software market / Lauri Frank, Pasi Tyrväinen and Eetu Luoma. Part III: Issues affecting telecom software market evolution. Vertical integration due to software systems' modularity / Oleksiy Mazhelis and Pasi Tyrväinen -- Market polarization due to difference in interface implementation efforts / Oleksiy Mazhelis and Pasi Tyrväinen -- Barriers to horizontal development / Olli Martikainen. Part IV: Future scenarios for the teleoperator software market and their evaluation. Delphi study / Lauri Frank -- Manager's toolbox for OSS/BSS market analysis / Pasi Tyrväinen -- Developing toolboxes / Pasi Tyrväinen. Part V: Evolution of telecom operator software industry: conclusions and future / Pasi Tyrväinen.

ISBN

• 3790823511
• 9783790823516

LCCN

2009930389

OCLC

• ocn503558780
• 503558780
• SCSB-9301998

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library