Advantage SaaS Immersion Center

Communications service providers are constantly looking for ways to make their operations more efficient. An option they may evaluate is a software as a service (SaaS) delivery model for billing support systems. Vendors are delivering on the promise of SaaS by lowering the cost, relieving CSPs of the burden of supporting systems on their own and being flexible in delivering new features and capabilities. That said, their decision to move to this new model requires answers to questions: How does it work? Will it lower my costs? Can it meet my security requirements? Can it help me generate revenue? Where do I start? Start here. This Immersion Center offers digital resources – digital issues, reports and video – hand-picked by B/OSS editors to offer direction and insight into the critical questions about migrating to SaaS-based BSS.

Digital Issues

  • SaaS: Focusing on Functionality

    The Muddy Water of SaaS: Users of hosted BSS solutions aren't concerned with the purity of the SaaS model, only the efficacy of the solution.

    Q&A With ATG's Tom Stergios: From a company that helps service providers decide if SaaS is right for them and helps them implement it comes some real-world views on how SaaS is being used by one segment of the industry.

    SaaS: Who are you this time? The writer's take on how service providers think about and implement SaaS.

B/OSS Picks

  • The Executive Panel on SaaS

    Three senior execs deliver some cold reality on software-as-a-service as the back-office model of the future for the industry as a whole, but acknowledge the meaningful future it has in certain applications and for certain market segments.

  • Demanding Performance in a SaaS Environment

    This report tells service providers not only what they should expect from choosing software-as-a-service as their new software delivery model, but what to demand.

  • Risk Higher Than Ever for Lost Revenue

    Mobile operators are answering the call to support fantastic increases in mobile data traffic and high demand for innovative applications. In the process, they are opening themselves to increased risk for fraud and lost revenue. This report suggests a more comprehensive approach to revenue assurance is necessary.

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