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This project combines many of the key priorities for the industry including managing software-enabled services, cloud and two sided business models into a demonstration that becomes a blueprint for the industry. These concepts are all critical to creating a mature implementation for delivering new services, and one that will enable its users to truly compete in the market.
Aileen Smith, SVP Collaboration, TM Forum
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The PT Service Delivery Broker solution is particularly noteworthy as it fulfills many of the requirements for a Cloud Service Broker while adding robust tools and industry standards based governance to effectuate compliance with SOA Best Practices and efficient Product and Service Lifecycle Management. With its capability of being deployed on Windows Azure as an “SDB as a Service”, the PT SDB itself leverages the cloud to facilitate creation, deployment, monetization, and operation of multi-cloud services globally.
Eric G Troup, CTO, WW Communications and Media Industry, Microsoft Corporation
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Portugal Telecom SAPO’s Service Delivery Broker will solve and speed up current monetization challenges Telcos’s industry faces nowadays, optimizing their opportunities, reducing their time-to-market and development effort in a more quick and inexpensive way. With this kind of industry innovation, we will promptly see many companies moving from traditional communications into a new world of distributed cloud, distributed web and distributed IP applications, providing innumerous benefits not only to customers but also to business partners.
Sérgio Martins, Home Entertainment Product Manager, LG Portugal
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We found within TM Forum Service Delivery Framework [now called Software Enabled Services] Team the guidelines for managing the services lifecycle and in the Catalyst Program a way to capture industry feedback about our implementation and the business models that we're going to show. The service management, along with PT Service Delivery Broker, enables companies to empower the long tail. It is foreseeable that this showcase will make a stand to the industry, showing a solid solution approach to become a Telco 2.0.
Celso Martinho, CTO, SAPO, Portugal Telecom
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Using the Service Delivery Broker to expose SportInveste Multimedia Web services, allow us to distribute and adequate our content faster, for the Web, mobile and IPTV, offering our company the agility we consider fundamental to differentiate in the media market.
Paulo Martins, Diretor New Media, SportInveste Multimédia
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The versatility shown by SAPO SDB in web services exposure enabled GALP to make available in record time and quality the necessary APIs to fond the GALP PT Innovation Challenge
Ruben Ribeiro Eiras, Responsible for Scientific System Realations, Galp Energia
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Service Delivery Broker is a key technical piece that allows Sercultur to stay focused on content production and on the needs of its clients, providing new applications and services for multi-channel and multi-platform environments in record time, ensuring the rapid expansion of the content distribution business.
Eduardo Santos, CEO, Sercultur
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Service Delivery Broker allows wider information dissemination about fuel prices on new channels, supporting the Direcção Geral de Energia e Geologia in its mission to inform consumers, and to bring greater transparency to the liquid fuels market.
José Manuel Perdigoto, General Director, , Direcção de Geral de Energia e Geologia
With the Service Delivery Broker, InfoPortugal promotes its contents and APIs, which allows leveraging the company's business through information licensing for various platforms.
João Tacanho, General Director, InfoPortugal
The ability to distribute the Agência Lusa news on multiple devices via the Service Deliver Broker is very interesting and helps projecting Lusa in an future promising area - the internet media consumption.
Luís Rodrigues Martins, Marketing and Commercial Director, Lusa
Web services by INE's statistical information, available through the Service Delivery Broker, enables the diffusion of statistical indicators in a simple, efficient and responsive way that adapts to the needs of Internet users in Portugal. It also creates the technical basis that allows INE to accelerate in the near future, extending the provision of these services to other entities.
Maria Manuela Martins, Chief of the Communications and Image Services, Instituto Nacional de Estatística
SAPO's Service Delivery Broker is an outstanding solution leveraging the potential for a multiple-service delivery offer and paving the way for a user defined service creation. It’s flexibility and extensibility to embrace internet, network and media convergence are key for next generation services as walled gardens aren’t anymore a solution for communications service providers. As a telecommunications advanced solutions provider, PT Inovação has incorporated SAPO’s Service Delivery Broker as a fundamental component for its Service Delivery Framework offering.
Alcino Lavrador, CEO, PT Inovação
The PT SAPO Service Delivery Broker is an important step forward for telecom businesses pushing towards the Cloud and Telco 2.0. The PT SAPO SDB follows all the important SOA principles, streamlines Service Lifecycle Management and enables easy integration of new and legacy services in a SaaS environment.
Diogo Gomes, Professor, Universidade de Aveiro
The Porto Editora’s dictionary offered at SAPO Kids is available through a WebService. SAPO’s Service Delivery Broker has allowed the development team to feel abstracted from access security issues and at the same time simplified the adaptation of content to the actual programmers’ needs.
José Carlos Medeiros, Research and Development Center, Porto Editora