What is real-time billing mediation?
Real-time billing mediation is the process of using up-to-the-second data usage information to proactively identify errors, prevent inaccurate invoicing, notify customers about usage thresholds, and more. Telecom operators and communications services providers use real-time billing mediation to retrieve usage data from different network equipment and convert it to a uniform format that a billing system [...]
Do NoSQL databases need DBAs?
In last week’s blog I questioned the need for DBAs, concluding that yes, DBAs are still valuable in the current data platform environment due to: 1. the need for people who understand the pre-RDBMS database world, and 2. The need for data ‘curators’ to enable rational sharing of data between microservices and to ensure compliance [...]
Whither DBA: Will we still have them in 2026?
I recently fielded a question from a former co-worker who works as a senior Oracle Database Administrator (DBA). I spent much of my career with Oracle, and I’ve asked myself the same question: I am one of those DBAs who can see Oracle's market share gradually being eroded and replaced by a whole bunch of [...]
The Four Things You Need for Contextual Decision-Making
Why Enterprises Need Contextual Decisioning The world today is faster-paced than ever before, and the explosive growth of both 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT) is generating a greater variety of data at extremely high velocity. As a result, enterprises are now faced with an extremely short window of opportunity to respond to events [...]
Why We’re Excited About the Anthos Partnership
Recently we announced we had joined Google Cloud’s 5G Edge/ISV partner initiative, and that we would be available in Google Cloud with Anthos as a platform for delivering applications and solutions to the network edge. It’s important to spell out why this is such an important partnership for us and how it will help us […]
MWC21: Boots, or in Our Case, ‘Robot Wheels’, on the Ground in Barcelona
This was a Mobile World Congress (MWC) like no other. Thanks to COVID, I was not there with a team of five-plus colleagues, pounding the halls, connecting with customers and partners, and attending executive meetings. Instead, I ‘manned’ our stand in #cloudcity entirely with remote robots from Ohmnilabs. Depending on your point of view, this [...]
