
November 2006

Tribold CTO Speaks Out Against ‘Easy’ Short-cuts
on Product Management

Catherine Michel
Chief Technical
Officer

Catherine Michel, Chief Technical Officer at Tribold, has cast strong doubts on claims that a federated approach to managing CSP products is a viable solution to product management problems. The claims, masked as a “catalog approach” when voiced in some recent technical journals, appear to suggest that product lifecycle management and product business intelligence issues can be resolved without implementation of core product data management solutions. Instead, the approach actually prescribes managing the intelligence of products through a bespoke integration framework, rather than from a centrally defined and optimized product data source.

“Tribold have a distinctly different approach where we advocate addressing the product management problem head on – one that has a clearly delineated, centralized product catalog at the core. Only then can product management functions be served in a truly meaningful manner,” Michel explained. “Doing anything else is to build these business-critical capabilities on sand. They may look good for a while, but they will quickly underperform and ultimately collapse under the weight of assumptions and inaccuracies.”

Catherine has recently published a paper discussing the routes to effective product management for Communications Services Providers. The paper is available from the Tribold web site.

special report

TeleManagement World Provides Forum for Debate on Product Management Strategy

Tribold will have a big presence at TeleManagement World, both as an exhibitor and presenter. Tribold CTO Catherine Michel, ‘expects a lively debate on product management potential and how precisely this can be achieved’.

Catherine Michel will be co-presenting a case study on Telstra on Wednesday, 6th December.
Catherine Michel will be chairing the Service Innovation & Market Development Summit on Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Tribold is welcoming visitors to its stand on the main exhibitor floor. If you would like to meet a technical expert or would like a detailed session on a particular issue, please contact us to arrange an appointment.

Tribold product management experts will be at the event ready to discuss the steps a service provider can take to rationalise their product environment. Please contact us directly to make an appointment

Telstra Case Study at TeleManagement World

This year’s TeleManagement World will see a major presentation from Tribold and Telstra.

Catherine Michel, Tribold’s Chief Technical Officer, will be co-presenting ‘Mastering and Managing Product - A Case Study of Telstra’ with Ernest Margitta, Head of BSS Transformation at Telstra Corporation. This session will be on Wednesday, 6th December. Telemanagement World takes place in Dallas, Texas, from 4th to the 7th December 2006 and brings together business and technical leaders. Both service providers and their suppliers discuss and debate the challenges and solutions facing the management of next generation networks and services.

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Calum Nobles Becomes Tribold Engineering VP to Ensure Quality Development as Growth Continues

Calum Nobles has been appointed Vice President of Engineering at Tribold. Nobles, formerly a technical director at Information Builders, a privately held business intelligence and integration company, will manage multi-site teams and software development to deliver Tribold’s leading enterprise-class software.

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