Telecom Italia remains Italy's dominant enterprise market player, but strategic shifts, management shuffling and a vague business roadmap undermine its credibility and create an atmosphere of uncertainty as to future ...

Microsoft is actively seeking a more partner-friendly business model for its .NET Framework-based BizTalk Server platform, while moving its hosted SOA and application services forward, all of which will increase ...

Telenor continues its steady revenue growth despite strong domestic and pan-Nordic competition. However, much of the company's business potential is reliant on its extensive EMEA and Asia-Pacific mobile interests in ...

T-Mobile provides cost-effective voice and data services for small businesses, with bundled hotspot access; although not really targeting the enterprise, new AWS spectrum and a 3G rollout will gain it ...

THUS has posted its maiden full year profit, is continuing to win contracts and is increasing its managed services revenues. However, C&W's acquisition of a 30% share in THUS is ...

As VoIP gets absorbed into the service delivery of the future and becomes a mainstream deliverable for carriers, Cisco will be challenged to provide the equipment for enabling carriers to ...

Telefonica is the clear leader in its domestic market and its Latin American and Czech assets present an impetus to growth, but fierce competition in Germany and the UK presents ...

Nortel continued to maintain its number one position in service provider VoIP/IMS infrastructure revenue through 2007, according to Synergy Research Group. However, the overall trend for the company's packet-voice business ...

Verizon is making large strides towards extending its network reach and global capacity with advanced infrastructure and services, but the carrier must ensure it also leads in customer service. This ...

Belgacom is comfortably ensconced in its domestic market, but it has a low retail profile outside of the BeNeLux markets. Now organised around customer type, it needs to focus ...

Progress Software is an established and profitable vendor with strong positions in the data integration, natural language query processing, SOA, and special-purpose database markets. However, it needs to market its ...

With VeriSign's managed security and CDN businesses both still up for sale, customers and staffers alike continue to wonder what the future holds for the units. Last month's fast exit ...

Following a strong move into hosted integration services space with the release of a joint SaaS offering with Atos Origin, Axway has strengthened its US presence with a plan to ...

Easynet continues to win customers at home and overseas (e.g., iBAHN) and is backed by the financial might of BSkyB. However, Easynet is still a small-scale player that is up ...

SEEBURGER continues to build on its solid B2B integration portfolio via a partnership with Edifecs aimed at simplifying the creation of trading partner transaction specifications. But the firm remains focused ...

GXS continues to build GXS Trading Grid as a global SaaS platform for supply chain management and visibility, added a key European e-invoicing partnership and launched a platform tailored to ...

Oracle is building out a set of identity management services that can easily be consumed by external applications. The Service-Oriented Security initiative will build on Oracle's Identity Governance Framework ...

BT is one of the few pan-European or global players present in the BeNeLux with the experience, presence and capability necessary to challenge the incumbents and other alternative operators for ...

Microsoft continues to take a long view of the identity management market. Initiatives that could have significant long term upside for the company identity business include HealthVault, "Zermatt," and the ...

Embarq is the largest independent local exchange carrier in the country with its biggest market being Las Vegas. The profitable telecom provider offers a large variety of bundled and integrated ...