Telco 2.0

Business Model Design Process

2011-09-22T09:45:00.000+02:00

-Identify interdisciplinary Corporate Stakeholders set-up team

-Understand business environment frame problem

-Suspend reality ideate

-Bring back Corporate reality prototype

-Chose suitable Corporate design

-Sketch out projects & workload draw implementation Corporate Plan

-Outline key indicators to follow Choose Corporate measures

-Select the right teams and people make responsible

-Execute the Corporate Plan manage implementation & change

-Evaluate, learn and redesign Corporate Plan manage improvement

Corporate Business Model describes the value an organization offers to various customers and portrays the capabilities and partners required for creating, marketing, and delivering this value and relationship capital with the goal of generating profitable and sustainable revenue streams.

MARKET & OPPORTUNITIES

2011-09-19T10:39:00.000+02:00

The overall market size for Cloud IT spending/Computing is expected to be $42 billion by year 2012 according to IDC and market is expected to grow at the rate of 27% per year. Unlike Europe, Cloud vendors in the US will grow specially fast , due to it´s computing market maturity, the resistance of internet environments is almost cero.

Furthermore, in our findings, we realized that companies are reluctant to transfer out most of their data and computing needs to and “open Cloud”, because of security and costs concerns. Therefore, first companies will transition to building Private clouds using their existing infrastructure and eventually over time move, all of their IT related infrastructure to public clouds. Other possibilities are “trusted Cloud consortiums” and combined use of public and private clouds also known as Hybrid Clouds. The size of market for Private Clouds (based on even split between private and public clouds) to be $21 billion by the year 2012 with a growth rate of 27% percentage per year, starting 2010. Given that Private Clouds will be in the forefront of the expected surge of the Cloud phenomenon, maat International will have the first-mover advantage, with many international recognitions and awards (Gartner 2008-2009, ICT 2008, The EGEE08, among others) and more than 10 years of proven expertise as one of the private cloud´s technology developer leaders and of course is a clear option when thinking on Cloud technology, even more when we can say we have our own 100% cloud functional technology “Kactoo”.

Strategic alignment between

2011-09-12T09:24:00.000+02:00

Strategic alignment between the business and IT is the process and goal of achieving competitive advantage through developing and sustaining a symbiotic relationship between business and IT." The idea behind strategic alignment is very comprehensive, but the question is how organizations can achieve this ultimate goal. were the first to clearly describe the interrelationship between business strategies and IT strategies in their well-known Strategic Alignment Model.

The concept of the model, pictured is , is based on two building blocks: "strategic fit" and "functional integration." Strategic fit recognizes that the IT strategy should be articulated in terms of an external domain (how the firm is positioned in the IT marketplace) and an internal domain (how the IT infrastructure should be configured and managed). Strategic fit is of course equally relevant in the business domain. Two types of functional integration exist: strategic an operational integration. Strategic integration is the link between business strategy and IT strategy reflecting the external components, which are important for many companies as IT emerged as a source of strategic advantage. Operational integration covers the internal domain and deals with the link between organizational infrastructure and processes and IT infrastructure and processes.

The Rise of Generation C

2011-08-30T12:29:00.001+02:00

They are Generation C—connected, communicating, content-centric, computerized, community-oriented, always clicking. As a rule, they were born after 1990 and lived their adolescent years after 2000. In the developed world, Generation C encompasses everyone in this age group; in the BRIC countries, they are primarily urban and suburban. By 2020, they will make up 40 percent of the population in the U.S., Europe, and the BRIC countries, and 10 percent in the rest of the world—and by then, they will constitute the largest group of consumers worldwide.

Having owned digital devices all their lives, they are intimately familiar with them and use them as much as six hours a day. They all have mobile phones and constantly send text messages. More than 95 percent of them have computers, and more than half use instant messaging to communicate, have Facebook pages, and watch videos on YouTube.

Open Innovation

2011-08-25T10:01:00.000+02:00

One is "outside in," where a company makes greater use of external ideas and technologies in its own business. Openness in this context means overcoming the "not invented here" syndrome, where the company monopolizes the source of its innovations, and instead welcoming new external contributions.

The other kind of openness is "inside out," in which a company allows some of its own ideas, technologies or processes to be used by other businesses.

Openness here means overcoming the "not sold here" syndrome, in which the company monopolizes the use of its innovations, prohibiting use outside of its own business. Opening up the inside means that revenues from external use of a company's ideas are welcomed. Let's consider each kind of openness in turn, as it applies to service innovation.

At maat International, people matter

2011-08-17T11:35:00.000+02:00

Our talented and dedicated teams have completed over 500 projects since maat International began in 1999.

Diversity is a key strength of ours, particularly in terms of our cultural, educational and professional backgrounds. Typical projects bring together scientists, social anthropologists, designers and linguists. Projects often involve a tightly-knit group of R&D professionals, manufacturing specialists, business developers and marketing experts. We pride ourselves on incisive thinking, excellent communication and our ability to apply the knowledge gained in one specialism to the challenges faced by another. Our employees do not fit traditional stereotypes; their interests and skills stretch far beyond their disciplines.

maat International´s Business Partners are experienced high level managers from some of the high flyers companies in the world and nurture these connections carefully. Strong practical, people, and commercial skills. Before joining maat International many of us worked in different commercial roles across the globe, including in Europe, China, Germany and the USA

CloudBanking

2011-08-02T12:55:00.000+02:00

maat has an environment of highly innovative solutions in the design, development, maintenance and updating of departmental and transactional management applications in the Financial and Insurance sectors, under a philosophy oriented to SOA services – Cloud based Web Services.

The SOA-Cloud (service oriented architecture under Cloud philosophy) of maat provides financial and insurance institutions with a flexible, granular and efficient transactional environment, in addition to high versatility, low deployment and operation cost, security, integrity and connectivity, allowing entities to align “Strategy with Technology” in a Multichannel, Multientity and Multicurrency environment. More Information

Towards a model of intelligent city: new infrastructures for the citizen

2011-07-27T18:13:00.000+02:00

Santiago Jiménez en el curso de El Escorial from maat Nozzle on Vimeo.

Santiago Jimenez, director of maat International, during his presentation at the summer course at El Escorial "Towards a model of intelligent city: new infrastructures for the citizen" which was held on July 22, among other issues the Cloud tool for axis to the Smart City.

Aleph. Coelho. La vida en movimiento

2011-07-09T20:25:00.000+02:00

La vida tal como es...

Kactoo App2Cloud

2011-07-07T10:37:00.000+02:00

Kactoo is a Cloud-optimized platform, delivered exclusively as a service. Is a aPaaS, classified as "cloud-native." The application's code runs on the PaaS provider's infrastructure. A developer using cloud-native PaaS does not create, configure, or manage virtual machines or storage, nor do they select and provision frameworks and runtime services — these services are curated by the provider and supplied with the platform. Cloud-native PaaS offers abstractions for workload granularity that lighten the developer's burden for many scalability and operational concerns.

Kactoo. The Open Source PaaS. Development teams considering PaaS are faced with a difficult choice of:

· Being locked-in to a major player's proprietary platform Taking the risk of a minor pure play failing and their applications with it

· Keeping fine-grained control of application platform componentry and dropping down a level of abstraction to build on a HIaaS offering like Amazon's

· In the absence of cross-platform portability standards, a role for open source.

The Social Media Effect

2011-06-25T23:11:00.000+02:00

App2Cloud. Application Migration.

2011-06-24T19:37:00.000+02:00

The application development environment includes a module Google developing mobile applications based on Open Source solution Appcelerator:

Integration: developing a mobile application is natively integrated with the rest of the project / application.
Reuse: Once the programmer develops a new feature, this is available for consumption from a mobile device.
Multiplatform: A single development platform supports all major market (Android, Blackberry OS, IOS).
Catalogue of services: A wide range of services and resources - native Google - available from the development environment using the Google API.
Security: authentication and communication between mobile devices and the cloud develops safely.

Another way to present cloud platform options is in terms of customer adoption activities. Application migration is the most common use-case driving cloud computing adoption. The IT Decision Point "Migrating Applications to the Cloud: Rehost, Refactor, Revise, Rebuild, or Replace?" steers architects through making a cloud migration decision among five alternatives: rehost (on HIaaS), refactor (using SIaaS and PaaS), revise (for HIaaS or PaaS), rebuild (on PaaS), or replace (with SaaS). Please see the Decision Point for a detailed definition and examples of each option.

In addition to a powerful development environment, Kactoo can inherit preexisting to the cloud. Thus, vertical / applications can be developed and instantiated in the cloud, consuming resources of the pool under Cloud Computing philosophy. This process is done transparently, without modifying the application.

Currently this process takes place for PHP applications, a high percentage of existing Open Source solutions are PHP, and requires no modification to the application, so there is a wide range of verticals that can run natively on Kactoo under philosophy Cloud.

Service Innovation: Service Delivery Platforms, Open Innovation and Application Stores

2011-06-18T16:35:00.000+02:00

The SDP (Service Delivery Platform) is now a core strategic asset within an operator’s network. Not only is the SDP saving millions of dollars by rationalizing the delivery of multiple services and winning profitable new revenues through simplifying how new services are enabled and launched. The SDP has become core to an operator’s service innovation strategy – its plan to win new revenues, attract new customers and retain existing customers.

However, some operators have seen mobile broadband prices fall by a factor of six in the past 3 years, in addition to voice services going ‘flat rate,’ ARPU (Average Revenue per User) and profitability is under threat like never before. The devices at the end of operator's networks are now at the fore-front of the convergence of web and telco.

Once upon a time those devices were controlled by the operator, today those devices are becoming increasingly open; enabling most of an operator's value added services to be bypassed, including voice!

The SDP enables the Telco API (Application Program Interface), one method for operators to foster innovation on their networks.

The Telco API enables operators to expose capabilities from their networks such as location, presence, charging, authentication, etc. Based upon extensive studies performed with operators around the world, the Telco API has the potential to raise ARPU by up to 36%.

Just exposing the Telco API is not good enough; operators must implement and application developer community (ADC) and engage local businesses and content owners. Making it easy for local content and applications to get on the operator's network, easy to be discovered by early adopter customers, and all within an easy to use community tool that enables continuous application development to get the 'recipe right' for each operator’s local market. And let’s not forget enterprises; it also makes it easy for embedded telecoms in their day to day operations. All this is enabled through the SDP.

Communications Service Providers in the Cloud

2011-06-17T16:32:00.001+02:00

Cloud-based services represent a game-changing IT resource that is gradually transforming enterprise IT procurement and operations strategies. Enterprises must balance their interest in leveraging the benefits of "virtual IT" against the challenging realities of data security, service assurance, performance management and IT control.

By adopting cloud delivery models for IT infrastructures, enterprises are exploring business applications and corporate communications functions. This approach to cloud sourcing is often disjointed with limited consideration given to the end-to-end view.

What critical roles the network plays in the emerging cloudscape including:

Combining enterprises' multi-sourced IT resources into performance-optimized delivery platforms for distributed infrastructure, applications and business processes.

Bridging the gap between network and IT centers -- on a unified and subscriber-oriented view of the service, its performance and interdependencies.

Service visualization and how it is critical to provide the same levels of visibility and functionality as internally managed systems.

API OPEN TELCO

2011-06-16T09:58:00.001+02:00

API Open Telco is BlueVia/Aplicateca Compliance and is aligned with "ONE API Standards". API Open Telco is a lightweight and Web friendly API to allow Network Operators and other Services Providers -Utilities, Financial Institutions,...- to expose useful network information and capabilities to Web application developers.

API Open Telco contributes to …

Simplify application service provider integration to telcos
Rapidly increase number application varieties
Monetize network and information securely
Increase market share and revenue

API One Telco advantages:

For Operators: Attract Web developers Stimulate cross-operator applications Enable new business models B2B2C Avoid vendor lock-in	For Content & Service Providers: Reduced integration time Confidence in standards Consistent access to network enablers Global developer ecosystem
For Users: Faster service availability More niche services “Same apps as my friends” - across operators Web and mobile access	For Platform Vendors: Fewer mobile silos and lock-in Mashable, Web-friendly network APIs Reduced testing & development time Greater market outreach