"OSS vendors are beginning to acknowledge the surging operator interest in service composition and the synchronized provisioning of complex service packages, and that these will be difficult to achieve without such a [Mobile Service Delivery Platform]. As growing numbers of OSS vendors develop strategies for integrating service creation, composition, and service management, this is likely to spur more merger and acquisition activity in the OSS and SDP markets."
also see: Vendors Take On Service Management
"In a rush of acquisition activity, network equipment vendors have put their operations support system (OSS) houses in order and are ready to take back the service delivery platform (SDP) field from IT vendors and systems integrators through the creation of common service management platforms."
