IBM Greater China Vice President Yu: Let it become the carrier's business

"It has become a business, is the core competitiveness of operators." "IBM Greater China Vice president, telecommunications and media http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/18229.html" > Division General Manager Yu in the "Communications Industry newspaper" (NET) reporter interview.

In the past, IT systems have only played a secondary role in network-driven operators, known as "IT Support systems". Today, the situation is different, especially in an increasingly serious market environment, Cross-border integration is making it from the operational support system into the core business capabilities of operators.

Yu that operators face triple challenges.

First, the voice business is gradually replaced by the data service. Three years ago, more than 90% of the operators ' networks were voice business, and today, 80% of the business is dominated by data. On the one hand, most data services do not have a mature profit model, second, the voice business has not disappeared, but from the expensive voice channel to low-cost data channels. The trend of operators being "piped" is becoming more and more obvious.

Second, the competition has changed. The voice of the King of the era, the three major operators of competition more from the interior. Mobile Internet era, operators need to face the increasingly fierce competition from internet manufacturers. In the voice age, the operator has been in the wall for a long time, entering the era of mobile interconnection, the wall is suddenly gone, the operators how to face and adapt to the fierce competitive environment is a new challenge.

Finally, with the advent of cloud computing and the big Data age, operators ' traditional core competencies are becoming increasingly marginalized. Although some people think that operators have a wealth of network resources, will be in the cloud computing industry to occupy the main advantage. In fact, cloud computing test operators more will be the ability to build new operating models and business models. At the technical level, the core is an IT capability.

Nowadays, more and more enterprises put IT department in the core position, and the Enterprise Strategy form effective communication. However, the road of operator transformation is difficult.

"Network-led operators within the existence of a large number of excellent telecommunications talent, but excellent it technical personnel is scarce resources." The carrier's IT system is still limited to the position of supporting function, and cannot provide effective transition strategy support for the operators in the competitive environment. Yu to reporters.

Qiping, Secretary General of the Information Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, also agreed, "CT and it gradually merged into ICT, operators if only good at CT can not adapt to the pace of ICT." ”

Therefore, for operators, the immediate urgency is to reshape IT systems, improve the ability of IT systems, so that it becomes the same as SMS, data, a business.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)