Initial thoughts on the proposed Skype/Verizon partnership
Bloomberg's saying that Verizon Wireless and Skype are planning to announce a partnership on Feb. 16 at Mobile World Congress. What does this actually mean for enterprise telephony, especially for companies trying to cut costs? Let's take a quick look from four perspectives: Verizon Wireless, Skype, AT&T and the enterprise telecom manager:
Rivermine Acquires MBG: mindWireless is the Wild Card
On December 15th 2009, Rivermine acquired MBG, continuing a trend of consolidation in the Telecom Lifecycle Management industry. With this acquisition, Rivermine gained several strong capabilities that have differentiated MBG from the market in recent years.
Quick Fixes to Cut Telecom Costs
I just published my latest benchmark on telecom lifecycle management (TLM): Quick Fixes to Cut Telecom Costs.As with all the research I write at Aberdeen, it's available for the next eight weeks at no cost because of underwriters that wanted to be associated with the research and cared about the topic: G2 and Tangoe.
The Fragmentation of Telecom Expense Management
One of the biggest challenges of covering the Telecom Expense Management space is that there is such a high level of fragmentation and vagueness of categorization in the marketplace. In looking at a "Telecom Lifecycle Management" solution, the typical end user has no clue whether this refers to ordering a phone number, handling a cell phone, handling the procurement of a switch, or even handling access points for a wireless network that handles voice calls.Vendors try to differentiate by simply adding more and more services, but often just add confusion. So that I'm clear in the future in writing this blog, I'm going to suggest a few definitions that I'm going to use to maintain internal consistency.
