Converged Managed Services. Opportunity and challenges
The market for Converged Managed Services is expected to reach 5 BEuros by 2012. These services encompass managed Networking, Security and VoIP.
The demand comes from all segments of the entreprise market (SMB, Mid, F500) geared by their growing dependancy on IT and their lacked of skilled ressources.
Originally dominated by niche players, the MSSP (Managed Security Service Provider) industry is now growing more mature and large Service Providers are set to capture the bulk of the opportunity.
The challenge lies in ones ability to scale in terms of the type of services delivered, the type of vendors supported, and the number of devices/functions managed all at cost point permitting an agressive pricing strategy in the market place.
The key to this lies in a well designed, streamlined and vendor agnostic Service Delivery Back Office (NOC/SOC).
Gone the days where a vendor specific Network Management Platform 'would have done the job'.
What is required today is a completely integrated (SIEM, Change Management, Provisioning, etc..), converged (Network, security, VoIP), and streamlined (Profile based configuration, simple and intuitive vendor agnostic interface) platform which results a scalable and ressource efficient NOC/SOC for Managed Services Delivery.
Innovating in the Security Management space as well as in the traditional Network management and OSS industry, UBIqube has designed the MSActivator, the perfect platform from which to build and expand a carrier class Managed Security services Business over leading device vendors and capable of addressing the F500 needs as well as the SMB.