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September 24, 2008

Openwave Launches New SaaS Delivery Model for Internet Services

By Anamika Singh, TMCnet Contributor


Openwave Systems (News - Alert), a software provider for revenue-generating personalized services to converge the mobile and broadband experience, is now using the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS (News - Alert)) delivery model to deploy converged messaging and mobile Internet services.

 
The SaaS delivery model allows operators to license some of the Openwave software products and services. Openwave hosts the products and services, with no need for the operators to install and maintain the applications on their networks, thus reducing deployment costs.
 
Also, the SaaS model lowers the time required for carriers to be running on these applications, so carriers can reduce the time to introduce new subscriber offerings and services in weeks instead of months.
 
“Carriers are under tremendous pressure to reduce the risks of deploying new applications and services in-network, and at the same time reduce operating expenses including dedicated staff to manage new products and services,” said Susan Davies, senior vice president of products and worldwide support at Openwave, in a statement.
 
Davies continued: “Applications and services delivered through Openwave’s SaaS offering help carriers mitigate the risks associated with deploying and maintaining large scale application systems such as email and service enablers while providing carriers with guaranteed service availability, predictable costs, and the option of testing an offering prior to fully deploying it into their network.”
 
Openwave’s SaaS is offered as a dedicated or shared offering for carriers of various sizes. Smaller carriers benefit without taking on the responsibility of running the operations through their network while giving high service availability to users.
 
The Openwave SaaS model also has benefits like predictable cost structure, reduction in time-to-market for new services, 24/7 maintenance, technical expertise for installation and maintenance, scalability and high security.
 

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Anamika Singh is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anamika's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Mae Kowalke


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Fixed Mobile Convergence

encompasses a wide range of mobile services that converge elements of fixed communications infrastructure to complement the core mobile service. In most cases fixed mobile convergence (FMC) services allow the user or the network to take advantage of higher speed, cheaper local unlicensed access networks in local environments for lower value, high volume transactions.
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BlackBerry® Mobile Voice System (BlackBerry MVS) BlackBerry® Mobile Voice System (BlackBerry MVS) converges office desk phones and BlackBerry® smartphones, allowing users to access standard enterprise voice features whether at their desks or on the go*. BlackBerry MVS encompasses BlackBerry® MVS Client software for BlackBerry smartphones, BlackBerry MVS Services of BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, and the Ascendent Voice Mobility Suite.

With BlackBerry MVS, BlackBerry smartphone users can access enterprise desk phone options directly from the menu interface of the BlackBerry phone application, while at the same time securely authenticating to the organization’s enterprise telephony system (PBX). BlackBerry MVS also gives IT administrators the control to set voice policies on the BlackBerry smartphone, so that inbound and outbound calls use the enterprise line. This allows for all mobile calls to be logged or recorded for compliance with regulatory or corporate standards.
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