VanillaPlus Black Book 2016

WELCOME TO THE VANILLAPLUS BLACK BOOK 2016 As the telecoms industry continues to go through the greatest transformation since the introduction of IP technology – and possibly ever – this,

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Rapid IoT adoption and integration will command 43% of enterprise IT budgets by 2020, says Machina survey

A new survey by Machina Research shows acceleration in the pace of adoption of IoT by US companies, as they increasingly recognise the commercial benefits associated with implementation. This growing

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Mobile banking users to total 2bn by 2020, more than 1 in 3 global adults

New research from analysts, Juniper Research finds that more than 2 billion mobile users will have used their devices for banking purposes by the end of 2021.

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Huawei whitepaper advises telcos how to enable experience-centric B2B cloud service

During the Huawei Open Cloud Forum 2016, the network equipment and software provider unveiled its ‘Cloud Network Synergy’ whitepaper. This details the steps needed to build Experience-Centric B2B Cloud Services.

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NGMN Alliance appoints new Board of Directors and elects Johan Wibergh as Chairman

At NGMN Alliance first meeting, the Board of Directors elected Johan Wibergh from Vodafone as new NGMN Chairman. The Board also agreed to focus its work-programme in the next years on

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Domestic money transfer market to exceed $500bn for mobile transactions by 2018, driven by P2P services

A new study from Juniper Research has found that the value of domestic money transfers, including operator money and social media money services, will reach $520 billion in mobile transactions by 2018,

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Analytics 2016 – What are the next most important steps for CSPs’ data driven transformations?

Our VanillaPlus Analytics Insight report contains 29 pages exploring how the conversation has moved on from big data to using analytics to enable effective management of virtualised and hybrid networks

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Tenable finds 89% of UK infosec professionals fail to connect cyber success with strategic business objectives

A survey conducted by Tenable Network Security, Inc. a global provider of security technology, has found that a large majority of security professionals it surveyed fail to measure and communicate security

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Industry losing patience as US regulators fail to keep up with security concerns for consumer communications

Following the FTC’s recent announcement of its intention to study security update practices within the mobile industry, there is growing frustration in some quarters that the regulations take little account

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Digital Transformation – June/July 2016

Our VanillaPlus Exclusive interview with Vincent Rousselet, the vice president of market insight and strategy at Amdocs, on how digital transformation isn’t a one-size-fits-all situation and each CSP needs to create

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