White Paper: Extracting Business Value at the Network Edge
This White Paper discusses:
• Challenges to launching new services
• Strategic considerations to support new business models
• Moving billing and payment from a back-office function to a value-add
• Building flexibility into your systems to manage complex transactions

eSeminar: The Challenges of Blending Voice-Data-Content Services: Case studies on Service innovation using NGN - The eSeminar discusses:
• Opportunities and challenges to exploit the full value of NGN
• Practical experiences and insight from service providers
• Strategic considerations to prepare for mass-adoption of data & content services
• How to significantly improve the efficiency of service launches

White Paper: Real-time Charging for Convergent Services: Practical help from the IMS Standards - The White Paper discusses:
• Why the IMS standards meet today’s real-time charging requirements
• How an OCS enables flexible charging for convergent services
• The state of OCS today
• The role of session and event charging

eSeminar: Emerging Value Added Services and their Implications for Service Provider Business Models - The eSeminar discusses:
• Global technological, societal, and commercial trends driving consumer demand
• Overview of new, emerging data services being prepared for launch
• Exploration of potential business models to commercialize these new services
• Technological considerations to support new services and business models

White Paper: Extending the Service Capabilities of IN-based Hardware Systems - In this paper, analysts at OSS Observer review:
• The need for speed when developing new service offerings
• How to deliver hybrid accounts
• New solutions that provide performance, scalability and flexibility
• Commercial benefits derived from software-based solutions.

White Paper: Trend Watch: What’s driving Next-generation services in 2008 Some of the new services and supporting business models discussed include:
• Parental controls
• Corporate controls on services
• Services for convergent devices
• Social networking   • Location-based services   • IPTV