1. What is SaaS for CSPs or Telco SaaS? How is it different from IT SaaS?
2. See how SaaS will allow CSPs to be much more business agile – improving time-to-value while reducing TCO.
3. SaaS migration is a journey – what can we learn from how enterprises adopted SaaS? How can CSPs begin that journey?
Watch a replay of the live conversation from LinkedIn. Mark Bunn, SVP of SaaS Business operations at Nokia and Karl Whitelock, Research Vice President, Communications Service Provider Operations & Monetization at IDC focus on the benefits that Software-as-a-Service delivery model brings to the telecoms industry.
Related link: https://www.nokia.com/networks/as-a-service/saas/
00:00 Introduction: Mark Bunn and Karl Whitelock
0:42 What is Telco SaaS? The definition.
3:09 Why is Telco SaaS important to CSPs right now? NFV, cloud-native –⋗ SaaS
5:28 What are some aspects of operating the network as it transitions to SaaS? BSS, Order-to-cash, Analytics, Security are moving to SaaS
7:37 SaaS enables a new level of business agility. How can we bring that flexibility to telecoms? How does SaaS fit in the build-up of 5G and the opportunities 5G presents? Time-to-Value
10:01 5G’s distributed architecture enables new ways of doing business. But a collection of "point solutions" will not be enough to take advantage of that architecture.
14:06 SaaS-enabled automation can break up the monoliths of the "point solutions" and unlock 5G’s value.
16:36 "The elephant in the room" – the reliability of SaaS based on public cloud / hyperscale platforms
20:00 How is the split of responsibilities changing between consumers of SaaS, providers of those services – and software developers
22:08 Scenario: how a consumer of SaaS might offload some of the procurement, setup and operations activities onto a SaaS provider; How would that change the scope of work of a CSP’s IT department?
23:32 Example: how might SaaS enable a CSP to build new "value chains"?
27:29 Doing business differently in 5G. A CSP as a piece of a larger (business) puzzle
29:31 As an industry, telecoms have in fact already started their journey to SaaS – that happened with NVF
31:50 Putting Mark on the spot: "does Nokia have that problem solved?". How Nokia helps a CSP move to SaaS.
33:44 Wrapping up. As a CSP – where do I start, what is the primary focus when moving to SaaS?
Source: Nokia YouTube
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