Business transformation of the provisioning process for Machine-to-Machine

With a very wide variety of potential applications, the market for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) connectivity - sometimes referred to as Embedded Mobile (EM) - is one of the main growth areas in telecommunications and associated vertical industries. There are several major differences between the embedded domain and traditional subscriber-centric mobile communications. Chief among these is the way in which embedded services are provisioned (the process of connecting EM devices to wide-area wireless networks) and the life-cycle management of embedded mobiles. This paper summarizes the results of a project by Nokia Siemens Networks and the GSMA (GSM Association: association of mobile operators) designed to identify how mobile operators need to transform the provisioning process to serve the emerging embedded mobile market. The project used the Nokia Siemens Networks Service Provider Enterprise Architecture Vision (SEAV) methodology to map out the existing provisioning landscape and transformational requirements. SEAV, which is based on the generic Enterprise Architecture methodology, was developed by Nokia Siemens Networks as part of a research project.