OSS specialist attracts $219 million bid
Oracle has further underlined its credentials as a serious player in the mobile OSS space with the announcement that it is buying fulfillment software provider MetaSolv for $219.2 million.
Bhaskar Gorti, Oracle Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Communications Global Business Unit, said that adding MetaSolv’s OSS application suite would enable the company to “offer a fully integrated, end-to-end productized solution that will help service providers streamline the ‘campaign to cash’ process, optimize asset lifecycles and accelerate time-to-market of new products and services”.
Consolidation in this area, with a strong focus on service fulfillment, is being led by companies from different areas in the value chain. Amdocs is attacking the area from the billing end, with Oracle coming in with its CRM expertise.
Gorti himself came into the business with Oracle’s purchase of billing software company Portal, while billing company Amdocs has recently added OSS company Cramer, as well as content payment specialist Qpass to its brew.
Gorti alluded to the new businesses being built as operators invest in next generation OSS by saying, “Conventional, customized solutions have proven inefficient, inflexible and costly. Oracle is putting service providers in control to simplify their infrastructure, deliver more services faster and drive brand loyalty.”