‘Amdocs’ Archive

Get a glimpse into the future (live from InTouch 2012)

BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK Amdocs CEO Eli Gelman provided a glimpse into the company’s future at this year’s Amdocs InTouch Business Forum today. Pointing out that it’s Amdocs’ job to anticipate what service providers need to stay ahead, he told an audience of over 500 people at the InterContinental Hotel Miami, that there were four areas [...]

One family, one data plan?

BLOGGER: RAFI KRETCHMER At last count, my family had seven data-hungry devices connected to my service provider’s network. Yet I have four data plans. To me, it would make perfect sense to have one, understandable family data plan, which would even enable me to save some money. But it’s not that easy; service providers aren’t [...]

The clouds are gathering for Apple

BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK It didn’t take long for Apple to follow Amazon’s launch of its Cloud Player with the announcement of its new iCloud service, which sparked more than normal interest thanks in part to Steve Jobs emerging briefly from his medical leave. Given the emergence and popularity of connected devices such as iPads and [...]

Why the world looks different to Generation Y

BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK Success in the future isn’t just about the technology, according to futurist Dr. Graeme Codrington, from TomorrowToday, in his guest keynote speech at the Amdocs InTouch Business Forum 2011 in Miami – it’s about understanding people better. And this is the way that service providers will be able to fully monetize the [...]

All-you-can-eat pricing plans aren’t going to disappear that quickly

BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK While all the speakers on the first day of the Amdocs InTouch Business Forum in Miami agreed that the mobile data explosion – driven by smartphone adoption, multiple devices and machine-to-machine technology – was one of the major challenges facing service providers in today’s connected world, many observers were surprised by the [...]

The next challenge: Cracking Social TV

By: Jeff Barak There was no mincing of words here. “The telco business is dead if you don’t innovate,” Loo Cheng Chuan, the head of SingTel Ideas Factory, told a group of Amdocs employees recently during the first-ever SingTel visit to the company’s offices. And looking ahead at consumer technology trends for the coming months, [...]