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The IT factor in mobile services

Financially stretched mobile operators must find ways of getting new products to market quickly, and at lower cost, in the hope that one will be the killer application that generates the revenue streams they crave. But complex IT architectures littered with incompatible stand-alone systems force teams to develop every part of a new product from scratch instead of reusing elements as needed.

The take-away

By transforming the IT architecture, mobile operators can create reusable components that make it possible for product developers to concentrate on hatching good business ideas and on developing differentiating features while picking supporting IT elements right off the shelf.