Oracle named top telco OSS vendor for 2008

Oracle, the world's largest enterprise software company, recently received the Telecom OSS Vendor of the Year award at the 5th Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT Awards ceremony in Singapore held last May 23.

Oracle's OSS solutions were cited for topping the judges' criteria on revenue and revenue growth, portfolio diversity, major wins and key achievements. The company's OSS solutions currently automate the order-to activate provisioning cycle by integrating key service fulfillment processes, including back office order orchestration, network and service inventory management, network intelligence, service activation and configuration management.

Aside from Oracle, telecommunications provider Ericsson Mobile and mobile handset provider Nokia won awards for Wireless Infrastructure Vendor of the Year and Mobile Handset Vendor of the Year.

The list of winners are as follows:

Enterprise Vendor Awards

Contact Center Applications Vendor of the Year - Avaya
Network Security Vendor of the Year - Check Point Software Technologies Ltd
Application Networking Vendor of the Year - F5 Networks
Business Intelligence Vendor of the Year - SAS
Conferencing Service Provider of the Year - InterCall
Contact Center Outsourcing Vendor of the Year - IBM Daksh
Enterprise Telephony Vendor of the Year - Avaya

Telecom Vendor Awards

NGN Infrastructure Vendor of the Year - Alcatel-Lucent
Broadband Equipment Vendor of the Year - Huawei Technologies
Telecom BSS Vendor of the Year - Comverse

Telecom OSS Vendor of the Year - Oracle Communications
Optical Vendor of the Year - Alcatel-Lucent
Wireless Infrastructure Vendor of the Year - Ericsson
Mobile Handset Vendor of the Year - Nokia

Service Provider Awards

Mobile Content Developer of the Year - Faith Inc
Satellite Communications Service Provider of the Year - IntelSat
Data Communications Service Provider of the Year - BT
Broadband Service Provider of the Year - Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
Next Generation Network Service Provider of the Year - Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd.
Emerging Market Service Provider of the Year - Ufone
Competitive Service Provider of the Year - StarHub
Wireless Data Service Provider of the Year - Telstra
Wireless Service Provider of the Year - Bharti Airtel

Best of the Best

Most Promising Innovative Application/Product of the Year - Gifticon by SK Telecom
Most Promising Vendor of the Year - Blue Coat Systems
Most Promising Service Provider of the Year - Bakrie Telecom
Vendor of the Year - Huawei Technologies
Service Provider of the Year - China Mobile
CEO of the Year: Service Provider - Mr. Solomon D. Trujillo, Telstra

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