June 12, 2018
Realizing Smart Cities in the Home of the Fab Four
I’ll have my first chance to visit Liverpool this coming week. I’ve been to Manchester, Preston and even Blackpool (several times, in fact) but never Liverpool. I’m not visiting just to go to find Penny Lane or snap photos in front of The Cavern Club. I’ll be there do something a bit more contemporary –…
June 6, 2018
Sigma Catches A Lift In The Connected Car
Sigma has been chosen by a well-known automotive manufacturer to form the foundation of a platform that will sell and deploy connected car services. We hope to announce this formally when the time is right and the project is well underway.
March 6, 2018
Why the Path to Digital is Catalog-Driven: Reflections on #MWC18
The mobile communications revolution is driving the world’s major technology breakthroughs. This year’s Mobile World Congress was titled “Creating a Better Future” which focused on a variety of areas including IoT, 5G, Future Services Provision, The Network, The Digital Consumer, Tech in Society, Content & Media, Applied AI and Innovation. From wearable devices to connected…
February 13, 2018
Microservices: Not the saviour of B/OSS, just right thing to do
We’re at interesting time in the development of B/OSS for CSPs. Just recently, the TM Forum released a whitepaper on Open Digital Architecture (ODA), which will be the blueprint for the industry to develop architectures that will capture revenue from future digital services. It’s great, not only because Sigma has been involved in the effort…
January 8, 2018
3.75 Billion People Are Online. Are You Prepared?
Last month, Sigma had the pleasure of participating at TM Forum Live! Asia in Singapore with over 500 attendees, 90 industry-leading speakers and conference tracks including Transformation & Agility, NFV/SDN, AI, IoT and Customer Centricity. On the whole, Asia still has lower internet usage than the world average, but the growth rate has been much…
July 18, 2017
Is Your Company Digitally Mature?
3 Questions to Ask at Your Next Meeting Does your organization have a single blueprint for its digital business strategy? Does that strategy both align with and support the overarching business goals of your company? In the modern context of providing digital services, it’s not particularly useful to think of your “digital business strategy” as…
July 3, 2017
3 Ways Women Can Transform the Communications Industry
If you work for a Communications Service Provider (CSP), it’s likely that you’re acutely aware of two things. First, that everything you’ve learned up until this point is prone to rapid change and reevaluation. New discoveries, products, and services can arrive out of the blue, fundamentally altering critical elements of your area of expertise. Secondly,…
May 15, 2017
Sigma at TM Forum Live! 2017: 3 Innovative Catalysts
Sigma Systems was thrilled to return to TM Forum Live! this year in Nice. An intensive, four-day schedule connected over 3,000 industry professionals in a unique, collaborative and innovative atmosphere – featuring over 250 industry-leading speakers, a tech expo and eight live events. In addition to these attractions, TM Forum Live! showcased 30 Catalysts. What are Catalysts?…
May 11, 2017
Agile Business Done Right: 5 Best Practices for Agile B/OSS
“Many organizations assume complexity is inherent,” remarks Catherine Michel in her talk at the BCN 2017 Latam Summit.
April 24, 2017
4 Profitable IOT Innovations – and Why CSPs Should Be Excited
4 Profitable IoT Innovations – and Why CSP’s Should Be Excited While we’re all aware of the objects that are commonly embedded with online capabilities – smartphones, computers, and so on – the sphere of digital connectivity is expanding ever-further; the border between “offline” and “online” is shrinking, and objects we’ve always thought of as…