Analysys Mason names Ericsson top telecom software leader

Ericsson has been named the worldwide overall telecoms software revenue leader by Analysys Mason. The "Telecoms Software: Worldwide Market Shares 2013" report was published in August and also ranks Ericsson first in worldwide market share across 18 key segments, including service fulfillment, service delivery platforms, and network management systems. Ericsson’s rankings reinforce the company’s leading position in the expanding telecom software market.

 “Ericsson increased its leading market share position in 2013 for its OSS/BSS solution sets and expand its contracts with tier one and two service provider customers,” said Mark Mortensen, BSS Practice Head, Analysys Mason. “Ericsson continues to be the only supplier having nearly all of the software and services needed for operations. This position has been further enhanced by its recent acquisitions like Microsoft Mediaroom, Apcera, Guardtime,  MetraTech, Azuki Systems and Red Bee Media.”

"Ericsson’s continued top software rankings affirms our global strategy and continued focus on solutions that help our customers become agile as they boost revenues through cost-effective introduction of new technologies and services ," said Per Borgklint, Senior Vice President and Head of Business Unit Support Solutions. "New end-to-end customer experience management, cloud, service delivery and M2M solutions reflect our commitment to invest in areas that empower our customers to be agile in increasingly competitive markets that are filled with opportunity.”

The Analysys Mason report tracks commercially-provided licensed software, licensed software support services, and product-related services that help telecoms service providers run their business. This software provides essential capabilities such as billing, customer care, service assurance, service fulfillment, network and element management systems, and service delivery platforms. In addition Ericsson launched its new software model 15A in last September that includes predefined software value packages ensuring better performance and a software subscription component reducing time to market for new functionality.