IBM and Apple have announced a major global collaboration for enterprise mobility that encompasses IBM's offerings in big data and analytics, Apple's mobile devices, and a host of new native iPhone and iPad applications custom-built for specific verticals. The two companies called the IBM MobileFirst...
Vikas Trehan, SVP of Infovista, spoke with RCR Wireless News about key trends that the company sees in the market – in particular, how mobile operators are grappling with the continuing surge in data growth, and the fact that revenues are not growing at...
Editor's Note: The ecosystem of big data and analytics, and its intersection with mobile networks and cloud computing has increasing relevance to wireless in areas that include service assurance, customer experience management, mobile marketing, location-based services and more. Here is a look at the week's news...
IBM announced a collaborative effort with Chinese universities to nurture skills in big data analytics through software donations worth $100 million, plus additional support to increase the number of skilled workers in the field.
This follows IBM earlier this year signing a memorandum of...
When T-Mobile US made its announcement, the immediate question was “how much data are they giving away?” Obviously, music streaming services can use a lot of data in a day, depending on how many hours they are streaming.
MBlox, a global provider of application-to-person messaging, just completed a capital-raising round of $43.5 million.
Investors included Comerica and Horizon Technology Finance Corp., as well as some of MBlox's existing investors such as Norwest Venture Partners, Scale Ventures, Avanti, Trident, Saints Capital and Stratem. The...
Amit Daniel, EVP of marketing & business development for CVidya, spoke with RCR Wireless News about its revenue analytics solution that is now employed by 150 operators worldwide.
The company is expanding its capabilities in analytics beyond fraud and revenue assurance to include marketing analytics....
Rick Lievano, the worldwide director of industry technology strategy for the Microsoft Telecommunications Sector, recently spoke with RCR Wireless News about how Microsoft offers telecom companies value-added services such as marketing and selling services to end users.
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Lievano also elaborated on the software giant's use of...
Jay Klein, Chief Technology Officer for Alott Communications discusses what "big data analytics" really means, practical applications of using big data analytics to help businesses, and why it's so important for operators to utilize the benefits of big data.
Klein gives an example of GPS...
--Mobile data information company Mobidia says that LTE subscribers are using "dramatically larger amounts of data than 3G subscribers." The company has an LTE user panel that includes millions of subscribers on which it bases its data.
In Hong Kong, for example, the company said that...
Here, Nokia's navigation and mapping company, announced plans to acquire real-time predictive analytics company Medio Systems to extend its location-based services capabilities. Here plans to share Medio's relevant capabilities across Nokia's Networks and Technologies companies as well.
Here expects to be able to create contexual maps and LBS "that change according to the...
--The Data Alliance and Factual have struck a deal to enable WPP operating companies (of which The Data Alliance is one) to leverage data that maps the known location of mobile phones to physical places, including the correlation of more than 65 million businesses in...
Oracle saw strong growth in its cloud offerings, even as investors sold shares because the company missed expectations.
Oracle said that cloud-based software-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service revenues were up 25% year-over-year to $322 million, and cloud infrastructure-as-a-service revenues were up 13%. Cloud has been a source of strength...
Performance monitoring company SevOne has launched what it says is the industry's first appliance for log data analytics.
The SevOne Performance Log Appliance is designed to allow real-time analytics on large volumes of log data, according to the company, allowing enterprises to have a better understanding...
--Telefonica Global Solutions deployed Mobileum's RoamFix for Customer Experience Management to monitor subscriber experience during this year's FIFA World Cup.
Mobileum said that more than 600,000 international tourists are expected to visit Brazil during the World Cup, and that Telefonica will use its solution to...
Accenture, Hewlett-Packard's enterprise group and SAP's American subsidiary are collaborating on assisting companies in full deployment of SAP's in-memory database platform, HANA.
The three companies "will provide integrated solution-as-a-service and additional managed services leveraging real-time business insight provided by SAP HANA," with the goal of...
SAP has launched a new big data analytics solution designed to help mobile operators monetize the data in their networks, from collection to processing and the marketing of that data.
The new cloud-based mobile service, SAP Consumer Insight 365, relies on the SAP HANA platform and...
Big data and analytics were top-of-mind at TM Forum's conference in Nice and across the industry this week, with several major platform announcements aimed at telcos.
Steve Hateley, head of marketing at Comptel, told RCR Wireless News at the TM Forum event that there is a...
--Mojave Networks, which provides enterprises with cloud-based mobile security, has introduced a new "application reputation" feature to allow employers to track and analyze the data that mobile applications collect, store and transmit in order to assess risks in BYOD settings.
The average mobile device has about 200...
NICE, France – RCR Wireless News this week met with Comptel at the TM Forum Live event, and conducted a short video interview addressing some key topics of the show.
One of these topics is contextual intelligence and the ability to provide predictive analysis to...
NICE, France – Wireless operators are facing increased competition from both within their ranks as well as from new, over-the-top entrants. Traditionally, a wireless operator’s ace card was the data it controlled regarding its customers, allowing operators to tailor services to a specific need.
However,...
NICE, France – ZTE subsidiary ZTESoft moved to enhance its business and operational support systems product line with the rollout of its ZSmart 8.0 platform targeting communication service providers.
The company claims the platform can help operators deal with challenges of the “data era” by...
Ericsson has introduced a new real time, big data analytics platform that draws on data from sources including network nodes, OSS/BSS systems, probes, terminals and social media.
Ericsson Expert Analytics relies on Ericsson's strength in networks to correlate data with network events in order to draw insights...
Big data analytics solutions provider Globys today updated its Mobile Occasions platform that it said puts “Google-like marketing experimentation and dynamic machine learning into the hands of at operators worldwide.”
The company noted the solution is designed to help marketing teams better understand and...
