Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Application Development Trends - Oracle's horizontal move into the telco vertical
Application Development Trends - Oracle's horizontal move into the telco vertical: "Oracle unveiled a major platform initiative Tuesday aimed at telecommunications providers. The new Oracle Service Delivery Platform (SDP) is designed to support carriers, network operators and systems integrators who are moving to service-oriented architectures.
The new SDP will extend Oracle Fusion Middleware for network-centric applications, enabling users to access next-gen mobile, voice services and enterprise apps through traditional communication networks. It's also designed to provide access to next-gen networks based on IMS and VoIP infrastructure.
Oracle's move into telecom isn't radical, says John Mazur, research director with Gartner's carrier network infrastructure team. The database giant already has a well-established installed base on the IT and business side of telco. In fact, Oracle claims 90 percent of the world's telco carriers use its databases. And its recent Siebel acquisition may have given the company the lion's share of telco CRM as well."
The new SDP will extend Oracle Fusion Middleware for network-centric applications, enabling users to access next-gen mobile, voice services and enterprise apps through traditional communication networks. It's also designed to provide access to next-gen networks based on IMS and VoIP infrastructure.
Oracle's move into telecom isn't radical, says John Mazur, research director with Gartner's carrier network infrastructure team. The database giant already has a well-established installed base on the IT and business side of telco. In fact, Oracle claims 90 percent of the world's telco carriers use its databases. And its recent Siebel acquisition may have given the company the lion's share of telco CRM as well."
