Service delivery platforms market review: $3.09 billion in 2008 to $6.05 billion in 2013

DUBLIN, IRELAND: Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Service Delivery Platforms Market Review" report to its offering.

We forecast rapid growth in spending on service delivery platforms (SDPs), from $3.09 billion in 2008 to $6.05 billion in 2013, at a 14 percent CAGR. This is significantly down from our forecast a year ago.

The principal change is reduced SDP spending in 2009 and the first half of 2010. We forecast a return to rapid growth in SDP spending from 2011 onwards, as the global economy recovers and communication service providers (CSPs) return to more-normal spending patterns.

The deployment of an SDP is usually a major project for a CSP. It requires integration with network enablers, mobile portals, billing systems, customer care systems and OSS. It often requires a major marketing effort to define and launch the package of services that the SDP supports. It sometimes involves new business models and strategic partners that require careful strategic analysis.

Most CSPs have been through this process a number of times to support different services and in different business units. As a consequence, there is already a legacy of custom-built and product-based SDP infrastructure.

In this report, we focus on quantifying spending on the product components of an SDP; this includes the licence revenue from new deployments, the maintenance revenue from installed base and the professional services directly related to product deployment.

The product components we include in SDP are telecoms application servers (TASs), mobile content management and delivery (MCMD), mobile device management (MDM) and real-time charging (RTC).