CSPs: What’s your BSS sourcing and partnering strategy?
Today’s communications service providers (CSPs) are well aware that a sea-change is upon us. 5G, AI, automation, IoT, and edge computing are changing what’s possible in a communications network and also changing CSP customer expectations around digital engagement. Demand for consistent low latency has never been greater, and everything that was being said about digital […]
The Three Reasons We’re Not Surprised Openet Has Been Recognized for BSS Innovation
We’re delighted to hear—and (re)announce—that our long-term partner, Openet, which was acquired by global media and communications leader Amdocs earlier this year, has been recognized as the 2020 Global Entrepreneurial Company of the Year by Frost & Sullivan for its leadership and innovation in the global digital business support system (BSS) market. Per Frost & […]
Edge Computing and 5G: Where do We Go From Here
IoT. Edge computing. Digital transformation. 5G. It seems we’ve been hearing all of these terms for a while now. While each has its own powerful implications for how companies will run and monetize business-critical applications moving forward, they all naturally overlap into what will very soon become the next generation of data management. Granted, the […]
How materialized views provide instant visibility into aggregate data
Over the last decade, SQL has fallen out of fashion and is now seeing a resurgence. As applications become more complex, people realize they need a data manipulation language, and SQL is the obvious choice as it’s a proven and well-known mechanism for manipulating related data structures. In this blog post, we discuss how […]
It’s Time to Unlock the Previously Hidden Value in the Sub-10 Millisecond World
Until recently, “Real Time” meant more or less whatever you wanted it to mean, as the majority of interactions took place at human time scales. As we move to an era where the majority of interactions will either be Machine To Machine (“M2M”) or will have a human on one side and a machine on […]
Eventual Consistency and 5G Won’t Play Well Together
5G has a headline requirement for 1ms latencies. Legacy RDBMS products can’t come anywhere near this. Many newer database products will face serious problems because they use Eventual Consistency. Why? Latency In order to provide scalability and resilience, new DB technologies keep multiple copies of data on different physical servers. As a result, the loss [...]
