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Service Broker Forum Status
May 2, 2012 - The SBF has accomplished its mission of defining the Service Broker Category and increasing market awareness of the benefits of Service Brokers. At this time the individual member companies are successfully delivering service brokers or integrated solutions utilizing service broker functionality. For further information contact the following Steering Committee member companies:
» OpenCloud
» Oracle
June 21, 2011 - Light Reading Webinar: Release, Rationalize, Relate and Reuse: The '4R' Business Case for the Service Broker
June 15, 2011 - Heavy Reading White Paper: Release, Rationalize, Relate and Reuse: The ’4R’ Business Case for the Service Broker
October 5, 2010 - New Poll Reveals Over 85% Responders Consider Service Brokers As Key Solution To Their Network Transformation Strategy October 5, 2010
July 28, 2010 - Current Analysis Market Advisory Report: Service Broker Update: Key Transformation Component Comes of Age
July 20, 2010 - Service Broker Forum Launches Service Broker Channel on TMCnet
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Author Archives: Tamye Oshman
How does a service provider achieve market and/or service differentiation if multiple providers utilize the same 3rd party service?
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How can I find out more about the IM-SSF and its extension to WIN/AIN?
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Does any one of the existing service brokers have “ready to run” interfaces to premise based ACDs or IVRs in call center scenarios to orchestrate between network based apps (routing, statistics…) and ACD based apps (agent hunting, queuing…)?
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Is there – in any country/provider/network – somewhere something like an “app store” for network based applications including easy provisioning and billing, comparable to the iphone app store for device based applications? Do you know of such an offering or project?
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Does the Service Broker Forum plan to push for some standards for Service Broker?
The Service Broker Forum has defined the architecture and fundamental functionality of a service broker. The mission now for the Forum is to continue to evangelize this architecture, functionality and overall benefits that a service broker delivers to a service … Continue reading
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What are the near-term plans for the service broker forum? Will there be standards or BCP’s planned?
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Looking at applications today, it is obvious they are EITHER implemented in the network OR implemented on devices (thinking about iphone apps etc.). I can imagine applications which are a joint implementation in both domains, i.e. a combination of device applications and network applications. How do the service brokers help in developing/implementing these types of applications?
This is a great point, and one where service brokers may change the typical approach. A service broker exposes network capabilities, such as presence and location, or network services like find me/follow me, to the ecosystem of developers in the … Continue reading
