Today Microsoft announced a series of updates to Windows Azure including a wide range of Open Source developments on Windows Azure. These updates are the latest incremental improvements to Windows Azure that deliver on commitments to working with developer...

Microsoft Business Analytics Solution powered by the Business Analytics Accelerator for Telecom (BAAT) solution has successfully completed TM Forum’s Frameworx Product Conformance Certification for the Information Framework (SID) and Business Process...

The Microsoft Windows Build Conference highlights are available online.  At the Build Windows 8 site you can: Watch the keynotes and the individual sessions  Download the Windows Developer Preview Go download the Windows Developer Preview and...

Since the early 1990s, the telecommunications industry and its associated ecosystem of software vendors have attempted over and over again to successfully embrace first object oriented software, then various Enterprise Frameworks, a slew of Service Buses...

Microsoft , Portugal Telecom SAPO , and Telcordia will collaborate to take the TM Forum Service Delivery Broker catalyst project to the next level at Management World 2011 in Dublin during May. The PT SAPO SDB has been in production for five years at...

TheCommunity Technology Preview (CTP) of the Windows Azure Starter Kit for Java, was announced last Wednesday on the Interoperability @ Microsoft blog. This announcement adds yet another language to the list of options that Windows Azure developers have...

Microsoft and Portugal Telecom SAPO collaborated on and demonstrated the TM Forum Service Delivery Broker Catalyst for Management World Americas held in Orlando, Florida 9-11 November 2010. The Service Delivery Broker Catalyst was originally intended...

Microsoft has announced that it has partnered with Cloud.com and will support OpenStack with the integration of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V into the OpenStack cloud infrastructure. . OpenStack is an Open Source project, led by Rackspace and NASA...

The concept of a Service Delivery Platform is relatively simple provided the services are all contained within one well-defined boundary: A Software Application Store or an SDP for one set of functions in a mobile operators network. However, once service...

The TM Forum has selected Microsoft Azure Platform™ as a finalist in the upcoming TM Forum Excellence Awards 2010 in the category of Business Innovation.  The awards will be announced on May 18th in Nice, France. A part of Microsoft’s “3 Screens...

Quest Software and the Microsoft Visual Studio product team are proud to announce that Quest Software will release Toad ® Extension for Visual Studio 2010, a database schema provider (DSP) for Oracle.   Microsoft Visual Studio customers who...

The TM Forum has selected the “Cloud Services Syndication, BSS/OSS for Service Syndication” entry as a finalist in the upcoming TM Forum Excellence Awards 2010 in the category of Solution Excellence.  The awards will be announced on May 18th in Nice...

For phase 2 of the TM Forum Dynamic Content Delivery WAVES Catalyst the team will be utilizing the Silverlight Analytics Framework.  The Silverlight Analytics Framework will be used within the WAVES Catalyst to demonstrate how catalog offers can...

One of the challenges in adopting a new platform is finding usable design patterns that work for developing effective solutions. The Catch-22 is that design patterns are discovered and not invented.  Nevertheless, it is important to have some guidance...

Navi S ite & Microsoft Present: Win with WebsiteSpark – Training Event Get leads, free marketing, free software and tools to build websites, and discounted hosting.  WebsiteSpark™ provides you software, tools, support and training that helps...

In Press Release published today, Convergys announced: Smart Communications Suite powered by Microsoft . “Combining the power of two market leaders, Convergys in customer care and billing and Microsoft in technology innovation, the companies will be delivering...

The TM Forum’s Management World Americas event is next week, 7-10 December 2009, in Orlando, Florida.  One of the particularly interesting topics Microsoft will begin discussing at Management World will be next generation, customer focused OSS that...

In collaboration with the Eclipse Foundation and the broader open source community, Microsoft has improved interoperability between the Eclipse and Windows platforms. As a sponsor at the annual European Eclipse summit in Ludwigsburg, Microsoft announced...

Microsoft PDC 2009 is coming up soon. November 17 – 19, 2009 Workshops November 16 Los Angeles Convention Center Here is the link:  http://microsoftpdc.com/

The TMF has been working on a new initiative called the Solution Frameworks Blueprint . The effort seeks to bring together the work of two distinct work streams. NGOSS Solution Frameworks used to help architect next generation BSS and OSS. Service Delivery...

What is a Service Delivery Platform (SDP)?  What is a Service Delivery Framework (SDF)?  The question came up again at the TM Forum’s Team Action Week held in Baltimore, MD this past week during a joint session with several representatives from...

If you look at just the numbers, Microsoft is used by only a very small percentage of BSS and OSS systems.  In the true telecom BSS/OSS space, Microsoft can claim less than 10% market share today.  The other 90% is split between legacy Mainframe...

      Microsoft continues to enhance the interoperability of the Azure Service Platform with the announcement of the availability of the PHP SDK for Windows Azure . Announcing PHP SDK for Windows Azure… and much more! The goal of the SDK...

The New York Times has posted a blog entry about the availability of the New York Times API Silverlight Toolkit with links to the toolkit and background information over at the New York Times Open blog . You can find the toolkit here created by my teammate...

Microsoft Online Services was selected as a Finalist by the TM Forum for this year’s Best Practices Excellence Awards 2009.  The awards were recognized at the TM Forum’s Management World event held in Nice, France from 6-9 May 2009.  Traditionally...