Digital Lifescapes

The shift of video consumption to tablets and smartphones is causing pay-TV service provider requirements for video on demand (VOD) systems to change as vendors struggle to keep up with current generation needs, according to the latest market study by ABI Research. A case in point, I previously shared my own use case that demonstrated how I discovered that the HBO GO internet video streaming service had significantly more content in their archive than the HBO VOD offering from Time Warner Cable. ABI belives that equipment and system vendors, such as Arris (now including Motorola Home), SeaChange, Cisco, and Ericsson are expected to lose ground to cloud-oriented companies -- such as thePlatform, Synacor, and KIT Digital (expected to emerge from bankruptcy as Piksel). VOD vendors will see less than 30 percent growth over the next five years, while content management system (CMS) vendors will capture the market and see nearly 100 percent growth to seize half of the total VOD manage...

Broadband service providers (BSP) that deploy product data management systems to create telco "service factories" will have a better chance of surviving in a next-generation services environment that will feature tens of thousands of unique services, according to the latest market study by Light Reading. Their report details and analyzes the effects that product data management systems will have on the delivery of next-generation telco services. It explores and outlines how network operators are likely to implement product data management systems (PDMSs), and how the PDMS is likely to be integrated into larger frameworks -- such as service delivery platforms (SDPs) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiatives. "PDMS is emerging as a linchpin application that network operators can deploy to create a kind of automated telco service factory where customers can configure products with the features they want, much as they can customize a computer order online today,...

According to a recently published report, the content management software (CMS) market in the Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan), or APEJ region, is valued at $145 million in 2006 and will reach $281 million by 2011, at a 5-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14.2 percent. "The growing awareness on compliance and risk management continues to be the key growth drivers of the APEJ content management software market in 2006," says Prianka Srinivasan, market analyst of Asia-Pacific Software Research at IDC. "As outsourcing activities increase, more organizations will pay even more attention to the protection of intellectual property rights and the management of digital rights. These emerging factors are expected to influence market growth over the next few years." Australia and Korea remain the main markets for the APEJ content management software market during the forecast period. India and the People's Republic of China (PRC) are anticipated to register strong ...