Who doesn’t love a great business story?! The battle for the CRM market waged between Siebel and Salesforce was epic. And the objections Salesforce overcame will sound totally familiar to you telco execs.
Part 2: The Nails in Siebel’s Coffin
There were fundamental flaws in Siebel’s strategy. Learn why Salesforce was destined to win and Siebel was destined to lose – and how this applies to telcos’ journey to the public cloud
Ep 14 – The Software Series: PortaOne
Andriy Zhylenko, CEO of PortaOne, talks about leading a pivot to the public cloud via Oracle Cloud.
Ep 13 – The Software Series: CSG
Jon Fagan, Senior Principal Cloud Architect at CSG, talks about what the billion-dollar company is doing with the public cloud.
14 Actionable Strategies To Get Your Software Users To Install Updates
Ep 11 – The Software Series: MATRIXX
The Software Series, Part 1: MATRIXX Software CTO Marc Price talks 5G, designing for the public cloud, and why customizations will be the death of vendors AND telcos.
2021 Forecast: Cloudy with a chance of OpenRAN
Take a look at the biggest headlines from 2020, plus predictions for 2021. Here’s a good question: will telco get to the public cloud before Elon Musk puts people on Mars?
How can the cloud industry adapt to a post-COVID world?
Think twice before building your own public cloud
Building a public cloud is harder than you think. Instead, look to the hyperscalers and use as much of their stuff as you possibly can.
Goodbye, legacy source code
One thing people don’t talk about enough when they talk about the public cloud is how you can completely eliminate millions of lines of code. This is something I spoke about at GSMA Thrive Americas, and is what I’m going to tell you about in my blog.
Don’t be a server hugger
You’re wasting a massive amount of money, time and effort on maintaining your private on-premise kit – don’t be sentimental about it!
Will hyperscalers come after Open RAN, too?
Building out a wireless network is expensive, and most of the CAPEX is related to the radio access network (RAN) segment, reaching as high as 80% of total network cost.
