IMS Operations Savings and Time to Market Improvements

Service providers are often forced to deploy stand alone, individual service applications, referred to as "point solutions" to meet revenue pressures and are faced with the complex and expensive task of integrating these solutions and associated operations after investing in the infrastructure. The success of an IMS infrastructure depends on the ability to quickly and cost-effectively introduce and manage new revenue-generating applications. This paper describes the results of an analysis conducted to quantify and determine how applications.services deployed using IMS infrastructure can reduce operations costs and improve "Time to Market (TTM)."