Since 2005, SOA market growth began in 2006, the year of its rapid development. Gartner believe that SOA will become the leading software to create and deliver the framework, and forecasts to 2010, the application software revenue growth of 80% will come from SOA-based programs; the United States to focus on software applications, another area of the consulting firm's report that Zapthink , the global SOA market size will be 4.4 billion in 2005 to 43 billion U.S. dollars in 2010, five years time there will be nearly 10 times growth. In the enterprise application software systems become increasingly complex and diverse today, as a service and product providers, software vendors have abandoned the traditional "software product" thinking and to "customer demand" as the core concept, SOA is precisely the idea specific expression.
Telecom Operation is one of the important areas of SOA applications. By carriers of information systems architecture SOA transformation, should Telecom Operation integrated information services to the challenges of the telecommunications industry and IT industries continue to achieve integration is an important direction of development.
Operators to promote the deployment of SOA integration
"Transformation" is the current fixed-line telecom operators, especially the concerns of most operators, fixed operators have not had much time to wait and see, though still rapid development of mobile communication, but in the long run, mobile operators and fixed Network operators are also facing the same challenges, only of degree.
The number of users and revenue growth slow down, customers are constantly improving the quality of service requirements, the cost of increasing competition, these require more attention to telecom operators on the one hand there are services and bundled third-party services and integration; on the other hand is more to innovation applications, focusing on network technology and network to provide application-based value-added services. Future integrated information service itself will be a traditional telecom services including, IT applications, IT services, including comprehensive service system as a whole, the traditional telecommunications services will continue to integrate the application.
Applications in the telecommunications services to the process of integration, the ability to more quickly and at low cost and effective systems of different service bundles, opening and management has become one of the keys to enhance competitiveness, SOA architecture provides this capability is basis.
For the traditional telecom operators, existing business and bundled third-party businesses and ultimately effective management is not an easy task. First, the telecom operator's own OSS / BSS systems, the still in the process of continuous improvement, "information island" phenomenon still exists, is not conducive to the rapid integration on their own business and management; Secondly, the integrated information services include non- the content of traditional telecommunications services, telecom operators will also integrate IT applications and other services required in order to ultimately satisfy the customer's complete needs, but the third-party applications bundled with their service even further difficulties in the implementation. Deployment of SOA to transform the telecommunications service management platform for operators to achieve the traditional telecommunications services, integrated information services to the transformation, is becoming a notable trend.
BT implementation of the SOA transformation services for SMEs
BT is the traditional telecom operators are more successful implementation of the restructuring strategy of the typical. Since June 2004 the NGN5 proposed building 21CN has years of construction planning, BT has also undertaken a number of areas in the service attempts and innovation is an important part of the deployment of SOA. BT's SOA transformation since the start of 2005, BT has been successfully applied to small and medium enterprise information services for the package being.
BT SOA deployment through demand and comprehensive analysis of the effects that the information service needs of SMEs are generally started from Internet access, and eventually transition to the ASP demand model, namely: a web-based connection to their business gradually the transition process to the network. On this basis, various types of web hosting applications will become the focus of demand, such as Hosted E-mail and so on. SME customers usually are not professional IT services, BT to SMEs "virtual IT services sector" role involved the market.
Faced with this demand for information technology, BT traditional service management is not competent, and must develop a new framework for service delivery and ultimately to achieve fast, low-cost development of new services and its mobile service systems and other s tripartite system of rapid integration of IT applications. SOA deployment reduced BT to integrate the different service packages and bundles of time and cost, while greatly improved the flexibility of bundled services. "With SOA, the configuration-mail and mobile services bundle will be relatively simple. And as usual, once put into SOA, it is no lack of ways to expand its range of applications." BT Internet applications and technical director Norman Street said.
In the comprehensive evaluation of the BEA and Microsoft both companies after the SOA solution, BT chose Microsoft's CSF (Connected Service Framework) as its new service delivery platform. Microsoft IT in the enterprise application software products have a huge competitive advantage, and their cooperation can further expand in future service packs of new IT applications to lay a good foundation.
On the other hand, BT Retail general manager Brendan said: "Compared with the BEA, Microsoft's SOA program structure more like a real concept, not a simple software package." SOA itself is not a simple product, its deployment must and customer demand for personalized match.
BT's SOA deployment of Microsoft programs for the CSF including the complete session and authorization management, service catalog management, resource management, business management and customer data management logic, which through a standard WEB interface with the BT OSS / BSS systems and various Microsoft enterprise applications group parts (such as Web conferencing, e-mail systems and video services, etc.) connection, while CSF also provides third-party gateway to connect other ICT business applications.
Ability to focus on ICT applications in the bundle
By SOA market development and foreign telecom operators to deploy SOA-related case analysis, comparison can be drawn the following important implications:
Telecom operators should focus on the actual binding capacity of ICT applications. ICT service bundles include not only traditional telecommunications services, but also more complex functions and a variety of IT applications. Integrated information service in the future operations of the market competition environment, multi-service capability will be bundled telecom operators to improve business competitiveness of important factors. Telecom operators in the expansion of integrated information services market in the process, on the one hand to strengthen the broadband, voice and other telecommunications applications bundled with the other hand, must focus on the enterprise IT application services integration. Another point worth noting is that, OSS / BSS systems for electricity, the letter carrier's important IT support platform, is the key to launch bundled services, bundled services to provide the ultimate need and OSS / BSS systems for rapid and effective integration.
From the perspective of market competition, open view, faster and lower cost of the ICT application bundle is a time to meet customer demand for personalized and occupied the key market opportunities, and to enhance this capacity, there is need for telecom operators to transform the service delivery system. This process generally includes process analysis, modeling, and project implementation in three stages, the first two stages of the general by a professional consulting firm to complete the last phase completed by the IT vendors.
Enterprise information service chain is constantly extending the traditional telecom industry chain structure had changed, enterprise information services, including aspect of the industry chain is more abundant. As the control of the enterprise IT vendor IT applications market, so their voice is increasing. To Microsoft, for example, in the enterprise applications market has a larger market share, and many application models and standard-makers and advocates, Microsoft is through the influence of the terminal market to continue to expand in the enterprise information services industry chain the right to speak.
IT vendors both carriers of the competitors, is also a partner telecom operators. In the information services market, IT companies and telecom operators is both inter-relationship between competition and co-operate.
On the one hand the transformation of the telecommunications industry is not only closely related to traditional telecom equipment manufacturers, has also attracted IBM, Microsoft IT vendors such attention, their input into the telecommunications market is growing. SOA deployment is the integration of such cooperation and win-win relationship between the specific embodiment, the face of diversified information technology services market, customer demand, telecom operators must continue to enhance the ability to operate fine, but to do so, and IT work closely with manufacturers is essential.
On the other hand, the current ICT market value chain is also not perfect, telecommunications and IT industry cooperation model is not clear, it is still in the process of trial and error. Therefore, in the face of information technology services market, on the initiative of the master to IT vendors and telecom operators and competitive relations between them, the advantage is that telecom operators network coverage and comprehensive integration platform, and IT vendors have the advantage in specialized IT applications.