innovators enabling revenue-generating personalized services which converge the mobile and broadband experience, today announced a Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model for carriers to rapidly deploy Openwave’s converged messaging and mobile internet services.

Openwave’s SaaS delivery model allows operators to license select Openwave software products and services. Openwave hosts the products and services, eliminating the need for operators to install and maintain the applications on their networks, and also reducing deployment costs. In addition, the SaaS model dramatically diminishes the time required for carriers to be up and running on these applications. As a result carriers can reduce the time to introduce new subscriber offerings and services to a matter of weeks instead of months, permitting faster actualization of new service revenues.

“Carriers are under tremendous pressure to reduce the risks of deploying new applications and services in-network, and at the same time reduce operating expenses including dedicated staff to manage new products and services,” said Susan Davies, senior vice president of products and worldwide support, Openwave. “Applications and services delivered through Openwave’s SaaS offering help carriers mitigate the risks associated with deploying and maintaining large scale application systems such as email and service enablers while providing carriers with guaranteed service availability, predictable costs, and the option of testing an offering prior to fully deploying it into their network.”

Openwave’s SaaS offering is offered as a dedicated or shared offering suitable for carriers of all sizes. Smaller carriers in particular may take advantage of offering leading services without taking on the responsibility of running the operations through their network while ensuring a very high service availability guarantee of approximately 99.99% to their end users.

Other benefits of the Openwave SaaS model include:

1. Predictable cost structure; carriers aren’t required to make significant up front payments for infrastructure, maintenance and training;
2. Reduces time to market for new services, growing incremental data revenue and improving the overall customer experience sooner rather than later;
3. 24/7 maintenance, technical expertise to install, operate and maintain solutions;
4. Highly scalable; and
5. Housed in a high security facility that’s monitored 24/7.

The Openwave SaaS offering is available immediately in North America for the following Openwave offerings: Openwave® OpenWeb, Openwave® OpenMedia, Openwave® Passport, Openwave® Mobile Advertising, Openwave® Rich Mail, Openwave® Email Mx and Openwave® EdgeGx Anti-Abuse. SaaS support for other regions is in development.

About Openwave

Openwave Systems Inc. is one of the world's leading innovators of software applications and infrastructure designed to enable revenue-generating, personalized services, including merchandising and advertising, which converge the mobile and broadband experience across all of a user's devices.

As the communications industry intersects with the Internet, Openwave software enables service providers to converge services, increasing the value of their networks by accelerating time to market and reducing the cost and complexity associated with new service deployment. Openwave's unique product portfolio provides a complete range of service management, messaging and location technologies. Openwave is a global company headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Information Source:    Business Wire