Analyst Coverage

In their latest report, ‘B2B Marketplaces Evolve Faster, Driving New Opportunities for Communications and Technology Service Providers’, Heather Hershey, Research Director for IDC’s Worldwide Digital Commerce practice and Ahmad Latif Ali, Associate Vice President of IDC's European Telecommunications Insights program, reveal a game-changing opportunity for CSPs – the B2B marketplace.

According to Gartner, economic headwinds, growth pressure, new customers and product focus mean CSPs must continue to maintain or even enhance their focus on customer experience. This report will offer guidance to those CSP CIOs who are looking to shape their sourcing strategy by understanding the investments and directions of representative vendors.

According to Gartner, 'a combination of digital experience and innovative products and business models requirements are shaping CSPs’ revenue management and monetization capabilities.' Read Gartner’s recommendations on how CIOs must juggle multiple priorities with their partners to develop this core capability for a new growth agenda

According to Gartner, 'The MVNO-tization of the enterprise and IoT providers is driven by the need for control and security in their digital infrastructure and by expansion into new growth engines as connected products.' This report will offer guidance to those CSP CIOs who are developing IoT MVNO capabilities on how to select the most appropriate IoT MVNE solution to meet their needs.

This Market Guide helps identify market trends and hone sourcing strategies for customer management and experience solutions. According to Gartner, ‘suppliers were selected based on their competitiveness as seen by the competitors, product portfolio, geographic spread and progress in the last year’.

In this report, IDC explores the unique role that an ecosystem orchestration platform plays in powering Digital Industry Ecosystems – a role that is crucial to connect all the ecosystem players and enable cohesive business processes. IDC cite Beyond Now’s Infonova Platform as representative of a mature digital-native platform for consolidated digital industry ecosystem orchestration.

According to Gartner, ‘Vendors were selected based on their competitiveness as seen by the competitors, product portfolio, geographic spread, etc. Moreover, this Market Guide focuses on a representative list of vendors that cover depth of the market.’

In this report, Global Data assesses how Beyond Now and Matrixx have combined their ecosystem management and charging offerings to address the complexities of 5G monetization, concluding that the combined offering better positions both companies to compete against their larger competitors.

In this report, Gartner recommends that investing in an ecosystem management solution instead of building a completely custom solution will significantly reduce time to value. Beyond Now’s Digital Business Platform is recognized by Gartner as a representative solution for both Platform Ecosystems and Partner Ecosystems.