Service Delivery Platform Market Review

Abstract

Service delivery platforms are a relatively new area of spending for operators. We forecast extremely rapid growth in service delivery platform (SDP) spending, from $1.86 billion in 2007 to $5.31 billion in 2012 with a CAGR of 23%. This growth reflects a shift in spending away from traditional telecoms equipment to IT platforms that provide a more flexible and cost-effective infrastructure for efficiently creating and delivering innovative new services.

Competition between operators and with companies, such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple, in adjacent industries is driving investment in SDPs to enhance existing services and combine them with new offerings, such as presence, location, IPTV, content, games and other new capabilities. Operators are also investing in SDPs as a platform for enabling third-party service providers to use service enablers to offer innovative new services. This holds the promise of matching the rate of innovation achieved by the Internet ecosystem.

In this report, OSS Observer has expanded its SDP analysis to provide detailed market share for each of the SDP subsegments: telecoms application servers and network gateways; mobile content management and delivery; mobile device management; and real-time charging. This provides a more detailed view of the diverse SDP vendors that include the traditional network equipment manufacturers, major IT companies and a large number of specialist ISVs. The big three NEMs, Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks and Alcatel-Lucent, are the SDP market leaders, followed by Comverse, Oracle and Amdocs.

This report provides a detailed five-year forecast for SDPs as well as its four sub-segments. In addition, it provides a forecast for telecoms middleware and SDP systems integration services. Each of these forecasts is broken out by region and service types (where applicable), providing forecasts for 48 different segment views.

The report includes market shares of the leading suppliers overall and in six sub-segments, comprising each of the four SDP sub-segments, telecoms middleware and SDP systems integration services. The report provides detailed definitions for service delivery platforms overall and for each of the sub-segments. It includes analysis of the market drivers and inhibitors for growth in all segments.

• the most important drivers for operator spending on service delivery platforms
• the relative positions and strengths of NEMs, IT companies, systems integrators and ISVs in supplying SDP solutions
• the role of IT platforms and middleware in delivering SDP solutions
• the role of systems integration services in delivering SDP solutions
• the underlying reasons for the phenomenal growth in spending on SDP solutions
• examples of successful SDP deployments.

The report includes a table comparing more than 50 SDP suppliers. The leading suppliers market share is provided for the overall SDP market and for each of the four sub-segments, the telecoms middleware segment and the SDP systems integration services segment. The market share sections include explanations of the six leading suppliers in each area of these six areas.

This 81-page report is an excellent source of market intelligence for operators, network equipment and software suppliers, systems integrators, venture capitalists and financial analysts.

Acision, Aepona, Alcatel-Lucent, Amdocs, Avaya, BEA, CoreMedia, ChangingWorlds, Comptel, Broadsoft, BT, Comverse, Convergys, Digital Route, Convergin, Ericsson, France Telecom/Orange, MobileAware, Mobixell, Highdeal, HP, InnoPath, Mformation, MobileThink, IBM, Italtel, JNETx, Microsoft, Motorola, Motricity, NEC, Huawei, Intec, LHS, Nokia Siemens Networks, OpenWave, Qualcomm, SDC, Telenity, Vignette, Volantis, Openet, Nortel, OpenCloud, Oracle, Orga Systems, Personeta, Redknee, Sicap, SmartTrust, Synapse, Tecnomen, Sylantro, Tekelec, Telcordia, TELUS and Turkcell.