Take two minutes to determine the value that Build Forge can provide your organization with the new Build Forge Value Estimator. This automation and visibility positively impacts your organization by reducing idle time, errors and rework. Try it today. 

Next generation services need to meet customer and carrier needs; network convergence is the technical goal, while IP transformation is the business goal. This guide addresses the challenge of planning for providers doing both at the same time and lays out a service delivery platform (SDP) and SOA roadmap to recreate the network architecture. 

Marcio Nespatti, Alcatel-Lucent, discusses the latest research on next generation advertising. 

As services shift to IP protocols and bandwidth demands grow, Wireline Telcos and Cable MSOs alike must evolve their infrastructures to become IP centric. Read this whitepaper to learn more about the two paths service providers are taking to get to this new infrastructure and how they both end up in the same place. 

View this webcast to learn about the advantages of an electronic lifecycle for inbound documents, as well as the benefits of quitting paper and going green. Along with efficiencies and cost-savings results achieved by Esker customers who have quit paper, the web seminar will demonstrate automation of two inbound document processes as examples. 

See how Alcatel-Lucent helps service providers turn subscribers into audiences, dramatically increasing the value of advertising and content offers while enhancing the consumer experience on the screen of their choice. 

Given the ever-increasing growth of litigation, investigations and regulatory actions coupled with the explosive growth of electronic records, automation of an organization’s records management policies, processes and business practices is no longer an option; it is now a necessity. 

Network providers must re-examine how they can speed up innovation and time to market by working with trusted partners and developer communities. However, energizing such an ecosystem takes careful planning. This podcast covers market trends driving network providers to change their relationships with application developers. 

This paper will identify the challenges mobile operators face in the current environment; outline the steps they can take to evolve the backhaul network to support greater capacity at lower cost; and examine the role of a trusted partner in helping implement a mobile backhaul solution that meets their specific business imperatives. 

Telecom service providers have to work harder at creating new ways to generate voice services revenue as the demand for wireless grows and traditional voice services declines. This pocket E-Guide details how service providers can leverage next-gen voice services, like Fixed Mobile Convergence, to address this issue. 

Read this paper to learn about a new approach to compliance that seeks to move beyond the short-term goal of passing an audit and to incorporate compliance into an organization's operations in a more proactive sense utilizing the Capability Maturity Model. 

This whitepaper will examine PCI DSS and explain how Lumension® Compliance and IT Risk Management can help organizations reduce the cost of addressing compliance. 

Read this chapter from "HOWTO Secure and Audit Oracle 10g and 11g" (CRC Press, 2009) and learn how to secure Oracle by checking for weak passwords, configuring failed login policies, preventing DoS attacks with resource limits, and auditing user profiles.