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Service providers are facing the challenges of managing ever-increasing numbers of subscribers to various services. Besides, they have to operate in a multi-network and multi-vendor infrastructure where rapidly deploying new services before competitors is crucial in gaining the competitive time-tomarket advantage. "Consolidation will improve innovation and in the current market scenario, everyone is talking about moving towards IP platform, one of the innovative initiatives. Consolidation would reduce complexity as well. Consolidation efforts of global companies have resulted into reduction in size of suppliers, interfaces, etc and improved employee productivity. Consolidation will drive the industry. In this context, our focus would be to innovate and stay with our focussed services," Dietch added.
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"We will focus on helping our customers fulfill their objectives for deploying cost effective, flexible infrastructure, better understand and manage customers, create revenue generating multimedia services, etc"
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"Following the alliance with Mercury, the thrust would be on strengthening partnerships in India"
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"IT has already re-engineered the world and the present opportunity is to re-engineer itself with significant and growing investment of capital and expense"
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-Steven Dietch, director, Worldwide Marketing, HP OpenCall
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-T Srinivasan, executive director, Software Products, HP India
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-Thomas E Hogan, senior vice president, HP Software (technology solutions group)
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On the sidelines of the event, T Srinivasan, executive director, Software Products, HP India, said: "Following the alliance with Mercury, the thrust would be on strengthening partnerships in India. Though the Mercury brand will not exist in the global software space, the integration with Mercury has already assisted the business to flourish in a big way. "
Awards of Excellence
Meanwhile, HP has announced the winners of the 2007 HP Software Business Technology Optimization (BTO) Award for the Asia Pacific and Japan region, and the global HP Software OpenCall Award of Excellence.
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The winners for the HP Software BTO awards include: KTF (for excellence in delivering value to the business), Government of Western Australia Department of Education and Training (excellence in capitalizing on change) and Boral (excellence in achieving business continuity), while the winners for the HP Software OpenCall Award of Excellence are Maxis (excellence in consolidation), KTF (excellence in innovation) and KT (excellence in convergence).
Winners were selected by an independent panel of judges who evaluated entries based on the achievement of outstanding business results and measurable IT improvements. The HP Software BTO awards recognize enterprises using HP software to optimize the business outcomes of IT. The HP Software OpenCall Award of Excellence honors telecommunications companies worldwide who are using HP OpenCall solutions to deliver revenue generating service provider solutions at the best value.
Baburajan K
baburajank@cybermedia.co.in
(The author was hosted in Brisbane)
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