Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 28 | Page 35

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// and 5G, to upend and reinvent business models, and to diversify revenue streams. This flexibility in the BSS platform is of particular importance as telcos experiment with non-traditional wares, such as insurance, financial and even healthcare services. Content provisioning is also becoming increasingly popular, with many operators already offering digital TV programming and music to customers. The BSS solution must become the cornerstone of Digital Transformation, enabling CSPs to www.intelligentcio.com FEATURE: DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION capitalise on such new opportunities, which in turn have come about through the same digital revolution. Flexible product offering Before the coming of age of millennials and Generation Z, CSPs could replicate customer experiences, selling the same product to everyone the same way. But Digital Transformation rules have amped the game to a new level. Each year, larger proportions of each telecom operators’ Ahmad Sayed, Regional Director, MEA at Nexign INTELLIGENTCIO 35