 John Aalbers ,Volubill |
 Martin Creaner,TM Forum |
 Dan Baker, Technology Research Institute |
 Chris Yeadon, LHS |
 Louis Hall, Cerillion Technologies |
 Barbara Lancaster, LTC International |
 Gaby Matsliach, BSS Product Line, Comverse |
 Andrew Taylor, Intec |
 Simon Muderack, Tribold |
 Pat McCarthy, Telcordia |
 Andreas Freund , Orga Systems GmbH |
 Mac Taylor, The Moriana Group |
 Doug Zone, MetraTech |
 Andrew Wyatt, Nokia Siemens Networks |
Founded in 1998, UK-based Prestige Media Ltd is an online and print publisher and organiser of business-to-business and business-to-consumer events. PML owns the VanillaPlus brand of print and digital products, covering business & operations support services (BSS & OSS) for providers of digital communications and entertainment services. Now in its 12th year of publication, VanillaPlus Magazine is distributed 6 times a year in Europe, the Middle East & Africa (EMEA) to over 8,000 named directors and senior managers within fixed and mobile network operators, communication service providers, system vendors, integrators and industry regulators.
In 2001 Prestige Media expanded into serving the fast-growing retirement sector in the UK, under the Fab @ 50Plus brand. PML organises and hosts the long running and extremely popular series of live Fab @ 50 Plus exhibitions and shows. The company's head office is in Kent, with additional offices in Avon and Hampshire. PML recently opened a new office in Canada to support and develop its worldwide digital services, including webinars, html newsletters and web portals. www.vanillaplus.com and www.fabat50plus.co.uk.
"As a global provider of telecom billing solutions, Redknee needed an effective way to communicate with a geographically diverse target audience. We chose to participate in a Vanilla Plus hosted webinar and were very pleased with the results. Their promotion efforts resulted in an excellent audience mix, and they worked closely with us every step of the way to create a highly successful event."
Barbara Henris, Corporate Communications Manager, Redknee
"Throughout the incredible journey of the telecom OSS/BSS sector over the last 10 years, VanillaPlus has remained a reliable source of both key news but also informative, objective and thought-provoking assessments of the key trends which have shaped our industry. I am looking forward to VanillaPlus and their more recent Stream journal continuing to play a key role in providing valuable insights as we enter one of the most exciting phases of the telecoms OSS/BSS market evolutions."
- Kieran Moynihan, Vice President & CTO Telecoms , IBM Tivoli Division
It’s the stuff of nightmares. The pressure is on to enable new services, but the data required is not complete, it may be ‘dirty’, and is coming from a variety of sources including operations, business and infrastructure with no standard data model.
Operators relying solely on ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems to structure their business may find they are responding so slowly that the challenges have changed by the time the analysis is complete.