Author: Ron Westfall

DXC’s Q4 and fiscal 2020 results indicate the company is making progress righting the ship under new CEO Michael Savino, containing revenue runoff due primarily to dissatisfactory customer delivery and diminishing customer relationships before his arrival. While COVID-19 uncertainties played in a role in DXC’s decision to suspend quarterly dividends, this could also allow the company to showcase how its ITO portfolio is well-suited to enabling clients overcome COVID-19 challenges.
Huawei Service and Software must contend with complicated sales cycles in key markets across North America, Europe, East Asia, Oceania, and elsewhere, due to geopolitical factors, despite the built-in competitive merits of applying the Salesforce digital ecosystem blueprint to drive CSP digital transformation.
Ericsson’s USA 5G Smart Factory is addressing the strategic goal of U.S. policymakers in assuring the long-term manufacturing and supply chain reliability of essential 5G RAN technology. As alternative Open RAN technology gains maturity and valuable deployment credentials in major operator 5G deployments, Ericsson is also well-positioned to drive and support Open RAN as the market conditions become more favorable as well as decisive from its competitive landscape perspective.
Microsoft Azure is making the solid bet that the dual acquisitions of Metaswitch and Affirmed Networks will strengthen the Azure portfolio in providing virtualized network software and voice/data/unified communications solutions aimed at operator 5G edge hybrid cloud demands, but must show its ongoing portfolio expansion will not scare off many potential CSP customers and supplier partners.
ADTRAN’s recent string of major operator wins in Germany and France fortifies its ability to drive more operator consideration of its SD-Access portfolio, particularly in fulfilling the distinct fixed access needs of operators in Europe. ADTRAN is now better positioned to compete against Huawei, ZTE, and Nokia in the tightly contested European fixed access market.
Aexonis, through its CemTore IoT mediation and management portfolio, wields the sales and marketing opportunity to enable any size or type of enterprise and organization to cost effectively streamline and unify management of their own IoT network, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic crisis recedes.
HPE’s SimpliVity 325, through compelling cost savings, scaling, and ease-of-integration differentiators and meeting surging enterprise demand for drastic acceleration of HCI applications deployment, is ready to play a key role disrupting in the HCI market during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and the remainder of 2020.
IBM’s new OpenShift-enabled portfolio offerings ensure the company is a formidable competitor in driving CSP and enterprise adoption of edge computing resources in fast growing 5G environments, obliging rivals to counter IBM’s strengthened edge computing proposition and extensive ecosystem clout.
Ribbon’s Apollo series innovative optical transport technology delivers the flexible grid differentiators and expanded sales and marketing channels necessary to seriously disrupt the optical transport competitive landscape. Watch out, Ciena.
Mavenir’s dual deals with DISH and Vodafone Idea validate its ability to deliver OpenRAN solutions that fulfill essential operator strategic technical and business objectives in both 4G and 5G environments, raising the OpenRAN competitive stakes across the entire 4G/5G ecosystem.
MATRIXX Software, expanding its collaboration with AWS, makes a compelling bid to gain early mindshare in driving the rapidly unfolding CSP, supplier, public cloud collaboration frameworks within emerging 5G environments. Here’s what I think is ahead as it relates to MATRIXX’s next moves as well as the competitive landscape and what to expect on that front.
By stepping up industry awareness of its established public cloud relations and portfolio expertise, Netcracker bolsters its ability to fulfill more CSP adoption of cloud platforms in order to catalyze their digital transformation journeys and spur their 5G deployments, especially by 2021. The move is a solid indicator of broader collaboration between cloud providers and telco software suppliers throughout 2020 including potential M&A activity.

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