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The Stratecast Operations, Orchestration, Data Analytics & Monetization (ODAM) analyst team has completed its annual assessment of the communications service provider (CSP) monetization. This market is defined by Stratecast to include the key business management functions of: billing mediation, rating & charging, other core billing, and policy mana...

While network architectures are top of mind in the current transformations of Communications Services Providers (CSPs), operations and monetization software is undergoing its own architectural transformation—to a microservices architecture. Microservices will play an important role in how new services are created and fulfilled. This paper focuse...

The Stratecast Operations, Orchestration, Data Analytics & Monetization (ODAM analyst team has completed its annual assessment of the communications service provider (CSP) monetization market. This market is defined by Stratecast to include the key business management functions of: billing mediation, rating & charging, other core billing, and polic...

In this report, we look at the role played by co-location in the hybrid IT environment. As a model for next-generation co-location services, we consider vXchnge, a new-to-market co-location and data center service provider. We provide a close look at how vXchnge incorporates industry best practices and modern design components to meet its clients�...

This year’s Stratecast Consumer survey illustrates the changing preferences that are redefining the connected home. Using the data collected from a survey that polled consumers in the US and Canadian markets, it is clear that the new connected home is truly a home in the cloud, where consumers will increasingly live in a connected lifestyle that ...

In this insight, Stratecast assesses two recent AWS service offerings that have a direct bearing on subduing enterprises’ security wariness in public cloud, specifically with AWS; and, correspondingly, accelerating enterprise AWS adoption. These service offerings are AWS Managed Services and Amazon Macie. First, we summarize cloud security viewpo...

This profile report examines Gigya’s approach to helping enterprises build deep, trusted relationships with their customers. A key component of the Gigya strategy is to invite users to become part of the process upfront. By engaging the user upfront, and being more open about the data collection process, businesses are now building individual rel...

Two years ago, in our 2015 Cloud User Survey, Stratecast asked IT decision-makers to identify their company’s “primary” deployment model for a series of business applications. Our goal was to track responses, over time, to identify trends: for example, is a consensus emerging regarding the optimal deployment model for a particular workload? ...

The Consumer Communication Services tracker has been reformatted to reflect feedback received from Stratecast's clients. The new format provides detailed information for several companies in the consumer communication services market for US and Canada. The aggregated data—delivered by country, technology, and company—includes subscriber, revenu...