Tom Kerber, Director, Research, Home Controls & Energy, Parks Associates will participate on the session, "The New Competitive Landscape: Telcos, Cable Companies and Beyond" on June 26 from 4:45 PM - 6:00 PM in Room 202.

Verizon, Comcast and other telecoms are invading the market, so what are security integration and monitoring companies to do? This seminar will highlight the strategies and motivations of the re-entrance of the cable companies and Telcos, including newer players to the industry. In this session, you'll get an insider's view into the motivations of these companies as they relate to the security industry and their bundled services strategies.

ESX is the only major, national trade event focused purely on the needs of installation, integration and monitoring companies. ESX offers business, product and market information and connections invaluable to these companies and focuses intensely on the growth and maintenance of their key asset -- Recurring Monthly Revenue or RMR.

Parks Associates is supporting Global Messaging World Congress 2012.

Although often highlighted as one of the traditional revenue streams of operators which is being eroded by OTT services, SMS and other messaging platforms account for a truly phenomenal global revenue figure, over and beyond the combined music and film industries.
Messaging is truly significant still and smart devices are driving A2P and M2M messaging revenues.

Preventing spam and „through the back-door? messaging is key to retaining the value and revenue generating capacity of messaging for operators. This will be the key theme of the event – how to ensure the value and revenue of messaging, preventing costs to the operator of third-party illicit messaging traffic and monetising innovative new messaging services.

The event will be focused on global operator case studies, including from important growth markets such as India and Africa (MTN etc).
 

Parks Associates is supporting SIMposium Global 2012.

For over a decade the SIMalliance has been supporting the creation, deployment and management of secure mobile services across the globe and it is proud to return again to Berlin to deliver the 6th Annual SIMposium Global, with Informa Telecoms & Media.

Now fully established across the wide mobile internet ecosystem as the meeting place for the broad ecosystem of application developers, global payment providers, manufacturers, end-user brands and of course, mobile network operators, the event tackles some of the biggest issues that are touching the mobile community in 2012. Keeping in line with the SIMalliance’s objectives and work, the streamed two day event addresses and offers solutions to the security, identity and mobility challenges of an increasingly converged internet.

With the NFC technology driving the mobile industry to the tipping point of contactless payment success, anticipated LTE roll out opening up new opportunities and challenges, as well as M2M communications advancing into consumer electronics, 2012 is going to see an even noisier and busier SIMposium Global.

Brett Sappington, Director of Research, is speaking on TV Everywhere at the CTAM Consortium: Advanced Cable Solutions Consortium Mid-Year Meeting from 9:30 AM - 12:50 PM.

TV Everywhere services have experienced amazing growth over the past two years, primarily in response to the rising alternatives to pay TV services. Today, over 86% of North American pay TV subscribers and over half of European pay TV subscribers are able to receive a TV Everywhere / multiscreen service from their current pay TV provider. While operators are expanding and enhancing their service offerings, many are looking beyond churn reduction to the business models that will allow TV Everywhere services to drive new revenues. This presentation will look at the market dynamics related to TV Everywhere, the growing threats and opportunities for operators, and the potential future for multiscreen services.

Jim O'Neill, Research Analyst, Parks Associates will be participating on the webinar, "Unified Communications - Opportunities and Obstacles" at 2:00 PM ET.

Ask five Enterprise or SMB chief executives what "Unified Communications" means, and you?re likely to get five different answers. Ask the same of their IT Department heads and it?s a little simpler: Headaches.

Universally, UC increasingly is being looked at by businesses as a way to contain costs, expand reach and simplify communications?both internally and externally. But there are stumbling blocks. Interoperability, proof of ROI and a lack of understanding all are contributing to what has been fitful progress for the technology. Add to that the increasing trend of employees to want to bring their own devices (BYOD) to the workplace, and there?s an entirely new range of headaches, security concerns and software issues.

Businesses, of course, want to know that the technology they purchase will be interoperable with the technology that they already have, that their ROI is going to be real, and they want to know what, exactly, is included in today?s UC ecosystem. Increasingly, service providers are suggesting cloud options as a way to minimize CapEx. But going to the cloud introduces issues of its own, and many businesses remain skeptical that it?s a viable option.

But, with the increase in mobility that the U.S. workforce is experiencing, as telecommuting and home offices become the norm, and as companies look to reduce travel costs and minimize time lost out of pocket for employees, the time is ripe for unified communications and videoconferencing vendors.

Join FierceEnterpriseCommunications and a panel of industry experts as they look at what unified communications means today and where it?s headed.

Parks Associates is supporting Digital Home World Summit (previously known as the Connected Home World Summit).

Stuart Sikes, President, Parks Associates is chairing the afternoon sessions on June 19 starting at 2:20 PM.

Arthur Baanders, EU Research Representative, Parks Associates will present during Breakfast Briefing, "IP SERVICES and THE CLOUD" on June 20 from 8:15 AM - 9:00 AM.  How are IP home services introduced in Europe? Do they follow the U.S. strategy? Zigbee versus Z-wave in the US and is that the same in Europe? Which SP’s did start with pilots and what is the status of these initiatives? Can SP’s deliver these services at the same pricing levels as the SP’s in the US (Verizon, etc). How important are the roles of the TV (with its remote control) and the cloud in these services?  

The Digital Home World Summit 2012 will look at TV and media services on multiple devices inside the home and how best to connect them to access same or different content for maximized customer experience. The position of home gateways will be explored – types of devices that will offer the best location to residential gateways to manage the future digital home and technologies that will enable fastest and easiest connectivity.

Parks Associates is supporting TMT Finance & Investment Africa 2012.

This prestigious event is designed to provide a premier platform for business leaders and financial and legal professionals active in the telecom media and technology sector in Africa markets.

Parks Associates and Waterstone Management Group host an a special event on the emerging business models in the SMB tech services markets. The firms will discuss the migration of SMB tech services into the cloud, with case studies, research trends, and best practices in capturing these new business opportunities.

Premium, managed, and cloud-based technical services offer unique end-user propositions as value-added services. With the right market information, broadband providers and device manufacturers can create and expand new revenue streams with SMB offerings that combine their existing assets with new cloud-based solutions.
 

The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) is proud to welcome CONNECTIONS™ and the Connected Home Pavilion to TIA 2012 – see Press Release.

The transition to an all-IP Network is erasing lines of distinction between wireline and wireless, cable and telco, mobile and fixed. It is also eroding the distinction between voice, video and data services.

In its place is emerging an entirely new ecosystem built around Network Innovation. No matter what the subject – M2M, Cloud, Optical Transport, Network Convergence – it is clear that innovation is the order of the day in Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Whether companies are opening Innovation Centers, working as part of diverse ecosystems, or collaborating internally across vast geographic boundaries, at the heart of today’s Innovation model is The Network.

The TIA 2012 Conference and Exhibition is designed to capture this transformation on multiple levels for the global ICT industry. The event brings together leading minds in technology, in the network business model, in network innovation and a transformed customer experience.

The 16th annual CONNECTIONS™: The Digital Living Conference and Showcase will be co-located with TIA 2012: Inside the Network on June 5-7 at the Gaylord Hotel, Dallas, Texas. Hosted by international research firm Parks Associates, CONNECTIONS™ at TIA 2012 focuses on innovative solutions for the connected consumer and leading strategies to monetize digital content, mobile applications and services, value-added services, connected consumer electronics, and home systems.

The executive research conference includes presentations from Parks Associates' leading analysts and visionary sessions featuring executives in the connected entertainment and digital home technology industries. CONNECTIONS™ at TIA 2012 also features The Connected Home Pavilion, an area on the TIA exhibit floor where attendees can preview demos from operators, manufacturers, and solutions providers for the digital home.

Parks Associates is supporting Digital Asset Management World Summit.

The Digital Asset Management World Summit has been developed in partnership and with the expertise of some of the key leaders in the digital asset management ecosystem. This is reflected not only, in the senior level speakers confirmed to speak, but also the key partnership formed with MTV.Key companies driving the change in the industry will be represented in attendance at the inaugural Digital Asset Management World Summit, including HBO, MTV, NBC Universal and the BBC.

Parks Associates is supporting M2M Forum.

Exploit the Opportunities in Machine to Machine Solutions Improving Efficiency, Gaining in Productivity and Enhancing Improvement in Business M2M in Latin America seems to be a new revenue opportunity for Mobile Operators. M2M offerings in the region are growing year by year through new high speed data connection network and also due a need of a connected world.