Infonetics Research has forecasted that the worldwide service
delivery platform (SDP) services and software market has
grown with the market expected to hit $4.7 billion in 2014.
Infonetics Research has also said that Oracle is the No.1
vendor for worldwide SDP software revenue, and Ericsson
is the No. 1 vendor for SDP services revenue
The pronounced growth opportunities for SDPs come from
developing regions of Asia Pacific, Central and Latin America
(CALA), and the Middle East, where operators are in the
earliest stages of their deployment. Initiatives such as
GSMA's OneAPI commercial pilot and the Wholesale Applications
Community (WAC) are working to create a developer-friendly
service creation environment and standards-based platforms
for operators to leverage when building their mobile storefronts
The continued economic uncertainty has led to increased
interest in hosted and cloud-based models for SDP software
and turnkey services
"Traditionally, the service delivery platform is seen
as a tool to deliver services to the end user, but I see
a growing interest in the concept of the two-sided business
model, in which operators generate additional revenue from
developers by providing access to network capabilities and
subscriber information. This trend is driving investment
in solutions that not only allow operators to expose assets
like call control, location, and messaging to third-party
developers to create a more dynamic content ecosystem, but
also allow them to bill for that exposure," explains
Shira Levine, Infonetics Research's directing analyst for
next gen OSS and policy.
Infonetics' biannual SDP report provides regional and worldwide
market size, vendor market share, forecasts through 2014,
market drivers, and analysis for fixed-line and wireless
SDP software, services, and components. The report tracks
revenue separately for consulting, integration and hosted
SDP services, and for the five main SDP software components:
network and subscriber abstraction, SDP framework, service
creation environment, service orchestration, and Web services
environment.
Vendors tracked include Accenture, Aepona, Alcatel-Lucent,
Amdocs, Argela, Atos, CapGemini, Datatronics, Ericsson,
Hewlett-Packard, Huawei, IBM, Motorola, Nokia Siemens, Oracle,
Tata, TechMahindra, Telcordia, Telenity, TietoEnator, Volantis,
ZTE, and others.
