Cloud Services Barriers Faced By Telecommunications Companies: Report

According to the cloud services offered by telecommunications companies, to reap success in this growing market of cloud computing services, where appropriate, despite the fact that it is affected by major problems in the sale and support Analyst Telecommunications Independent, the report Ovum.

Ovum is an obstacle to the success of cloud computing services have proved that the "important" operational obstacles faced by telecommunications companies such as labels.

Mark Giles, an analyst at Ovum and author of the report, said: "Most likely, as in the communication networks that rely on their existing assets, such as telecommunication companies, data centers, OSS and BSS and existing customer relationships to offer cloud services to businesses Nevertheless telecommunications companies, and assets. "Some important advantages over other cloud service providers, is provided with a number of important challenges currently facing.

"IT services with sales teams and IT teams to keep the internal network, such as barriers, and OSS (Operations Support System, and to ensure the delivery of a lack of brand identity), and cloud systems BSS (Business Support) calls "nature, we can provide services that should be overcome," Giles said.

It is required for cloud services, the pace of innovation is different from traditional network services, and telecommunications companies need to reduce time to market claims. "This is not a challenge for the back office, telecommunications and service performance monitoring in the cloud at the same time prices, while raising the question of how," he said.

In fact, the possible effects on the market cloud services to maximize their existing IT services player with a co-branding, marketing and sale of an association, as a remedy must be taken into account by the telecommunications companies said.

"The prisoners and the operational challenges of helping the association to increase the number of telecommunications companies and their sales channels to take advantage of premium IT services partnership with the brand can help," said Giles.