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You rang? Or was it a tweet?
Connect World India - May 2010
Communication Service Providers will need business optimization and service agility to achieve competitive advantage. Managing the risks of fraud and revenue leakage will be viral. more»

Subex back to profitability
Times of India - May 5, 2010

Subex posts Rs 27 -cr profit
Hindu Business Line - May 5, 2010

Subex Posts Year-Over-Year Growth
B/OSS - April 29, 2010

Subex 'ROCs' With North American Tier 1
Billing World - February 10, 2010
Subex Limited has signed a multimillion-dollar contract with one of North America's largest service providers. The Tier 1 carrier will implement components of Subex' Revenue Operations Center.... more»

The Comeback Kid
Economic Times - February 1, 2010
A recovery in the global telecom space could benefit Subex. At current valuations, the stock looks attractive on a long-term basis... more»

Profitability despite disparity
Connect World - October 2009
Telecommunications in the Central and Latin American (CALA) region is growing rapidly. The sector has done well bringing services to some regions and some countries, but has had difficulty meeting much of the widely varied demand for affordable voice, broadband and value-added services... more»

Revenue Assurance and the Winds of Change
BillingOSS - October 2009
The nature of communication is changing. We have seen a progression from voice communication to the profileration of video and data.IP-based connectivity is changing how and when consumers and business communicate... more»

IT product firms new attraction for VCs
Mint - 26 August 2009
At a time when start-ups saw a 70% decline in investments by venture capital firms in the first half of 2009, IT (information technology) product companies were sitting pretty. more»

Telecom Market Spotlight: Africa
Light Reading - 20 August 2009
Like that of the Middle East, with which it is often coupled by analysts, Africa's telecom environment has become hugely active in recent years. This activity has been largely triggered by the rapid take-up of mobile services in many African countries more»

Still Not There
Dataquest - 18 August 2009
In many ways, the story of Subex is quite like the story of the Indian software products space, moving from the lanes of self-doubt and abnegation to that of confidence and global aspirations. more»

Managed services spell big IT business
Ecomomic Times - 27 May 2009
"Telecos are now demanding that they share risks with their product companies," Subex founder chairman, managing director and chief executive Subash Menon said. "People will ask for platform and managed services by the next decade. Telecom players want to have platforms and not point solutions". more»

Why Subex is turning to managed services
Deccan Chronicle - 02 July 2009
The global downturn has done strange things. It made software services companies think products and products firms explore services to boost drying revenue streams. For Bengaluru-based Subex, a firm selling software products to telcos, service. more»

Subex to focus more on managed services portfolio
Economic Times - 02 June 2009
Subex, the Bangalore-based telecom software products company, is giving greater thrust to its managed services portfolio given the strong traction it has been witnessing at the marketplace. more»

Subex Turns the Corner on FY09
Billing World - 27 May 2009
With a 15 percent growth in revenue in its latest quarter, Subex has begun to see its own little recovery from fiscal 2008.In its quarter ending March 31, Subex reported net consolidated revenue of $25.78 million, bringing the company to $120.8 million for the fiscal year. That compares to $23.40 million and $104.5 million, respectively. more»

ROUNDTABLE - Moving Into Higher Gear
Business World – 16 January 2009
Historically, india has had a chequered history in developing software products and in creating companies that can live and breathe software products. The sparse few that have been formed, have only made a marginal impact in the global arena. BW and Nasscom organised a roundtable in Bangalore to discuss whether India has a future in the global software products space more»

Product Innovation
Business World – 16 January 2009
Innovation calls for vision and conviction. Innovation being the starting point to build a software product company, vision helps us come up with a product idea. And innovation helps us make the product highly suited for the targeted application more»

Indian IT’s Fourth Wave
Business World – 16 January 2009
When Sanjay Swamy, chief executive officer and founder of mChek, was trundling by in an autorickshaw in 2003, he asked the driver the time and the man pulled out his mobile phone for a clock. That was Swamy’s Eureka moment. Realising the deep penetration of mobiles, Swamy floated mChek, a company that uses mobile phones as a secure payment device more»

Revenue Management lessons for telcos
Business Standard - 28 August 2008
One of the most dynamic industries today is the telecommunications industry. Telecom operators are transforming from being classic telephony providers into aggregators and distributors of multimedia and entertainment services, which include converged communications, gaming, social networking, news and the like more»

IT Product zone waits to evolve
The Economic Times - 11 August 2008
Software product companies were never heralded as the poster-boys of the Indian IT spectrum. Not by a mile. The halo of invincibility has always been around IT services companies in the country. Sheer numbers, both in terms of revenues and employee strength, drove everyone to believe that IT was synonymous with the services business more»

Subex confident of meeting revenue target for FY09
The Economic Times - 20 May 2008
Having gone through a challenging FY08 by posting a loss and drop in order from a major customer, the Bangalore headquartered telecom solutions company Subex is confident of meeting its revenue and profit guidance during FY09 more»

Telecos suffer $900-m revenue loss per year: Study
The Economic Times - 2 May 2008
Majority revenue leakages happen due to outdated billing systems which are not capable of handling large number of subscriber billings, downloads and SMS requests for value added services (VAS) like news, wallpapers, songs and other information more»

ROC On
Billing and OSS World, May 2008
Creating the Revenue Operations Center to Maximize Profit more»

Tracking Tele-frauds
The Times of India, 24 March 2008
A focussed effort at developing and acquiring software
products targetted at telecom revenue maximization has
made Subex one of India's biggest IT product companies.
Some of its products are today world leaders in the space
more»

HR in the era of collaboration and networking
Express Computer, 03 March 2008
Sudipta Dev analyzes how the web 2.0 wave has impacted human capital management in organizations productivity and efficiency. more»

Fraud: Plugging the leaks
gsm-3gworldseries.com, 22 January 2008
The Middle East and Africa - areas of continuing high mobile communications growth - are in one sense no different from any other mobile communications markets. more»

Dialling for success
The Week, 20 January 2008
Till 2006, Subash Menon founder chairman, MD and CEO, Subex Ltd, had to face the very same question from his share holders-When was Subex going to announce the 'big news'? For the confident and methodical Suash, those were taxing moments. more»

HR's impact on business outcomes
Express Computer, 31 December 2007
HR policies and processes have to be more focused on optimizing business outcomes. Faiz Askari writes how HR impacts an organization's growth strategy. more»

Good, Bad or Ugly: CXOs on what they look out for in calendar 2008
The Times of India, 27 December 2007
The calendar 2007 has been an interestingly eventful year for India Inc with economic factors like an appreciating rupee, volatile sensex and active private equity and venture capital scenario. more»

Revenue assurance a critical tool for telecom success
November 13, 2007
Increasingly complex telecom networks are leaving more openings for revenue leakage from technical errors and fraud, a recent study suggests; and without proper revenue assurance practices, losses may get worse. more»

Swisscom First to Deploy Subex's Business Ethernet Fulfillment Solution
November 11, 2007
Reflecting its belief that Ethernet will be the defacto standard for business services, Subex has launched a business Ethernet fulfillment solution, which leverages data integrity management strengths to meet business requirements. more»

Revenue Leakage Problems Growing
November 9, 2007
Despite the increased awareness of the importance of revenue assurance, telecom carriers worldwide are facing growing revenue losses, as convergence, increased complexity and the changing nature of services are making it difficult for telcos to tackle leaks. more»

Study finds operator revenue leakage continuing to grow
September 18, 2007
A survey commissioned by OSS vendor Subex and conducted by Analysys Research reveals that average revenue leakage among global telecom operators has actually increased to 13.6 percent from 12.1 percent a year ago. more»

Making Your N-Play Power Play - Fulfillment Automation Strategies for the Move Beyond Double-, Triple-, and Quad-Play
Imagine that we live in a bizarre alternate reality world where there is only one kind of motor vehicle: the pickup truck. more»

Revenue leakage: Are carriers raising white flag?
Telephony - North America, 10 Sep 2007
A survey conducted by Analysys Research and commissioned by revenue assurance provider Subex revealed last week that fraud has contributed to a global increase in lost revenue for carriers. more»

Stopping Next-Generation Fraud Aimed at Internet-based Services
Billing World - North America, Sep 2007
Public communications networks are becoming an extension of the Internet itself. New business models and relationships will evolve to take advantage of this reality. more»

I Admire
Financial Express - India, 09 Sep 2007
Fairness, Commitment, Innovation: At Subex, we abide by this credo. So when I was asked which is the corporate house I admire the most, I did not have to think beyond the venerable Tata Group. more»

India's Software Revenue can touch $7 bn
The Times of India, 25 July 2007
Subash Menon, Founder Chairman of Subex, has recently been appointed as the Chairman of the product forum of Nasscom. He talks about the reason behind the dearth of software product companies in India. more»

The Long Road
Businessworld - India, 18 June 2007
Subex wants to be a $1 billion company. But first, it must get over a host of funding and integration issues. more»

How corporate culture impacts performance
Express Computer - India, 9 July 2007
An effective organisational culture aligns with the business strategy to ensure that the company meets its long-term goals. more»

Point of Inflection
Dataquest - India, 15 May 2007
How some Indian players sniffed out the global product opportunity, and are gearing up for the $350 bn market. more»

The Unlikely Socialist
The Economic Times - India, 24 February 2007
The Subex Chief talks about his passions - Malayalam poetry, reading biographies, good food and making his company a business worth a couple of billion dollars. more»

Subex Acquires Syndesis
OSS Observer - USA
Subex announced plans to acquire Syndesis for $163.5 million in a deal expected to close in March. This deal is another instance of the accelerating pace of OSS M&A... more»

Subex Targets OSS Giants
Light Reading - USA
Subex Ltd. is raising $200 million to help fund its ambitious strategy to become one of the telecom software sector's elite leading vendors... more»

Subex to Acquire Syndesis
Red Herring - CA,USA
Subex said Thursday it would acquire Syndesis, a developer of telecommunications operations support software, in a $164.5-million all-cash deal that... more»

India's Subex Buys North American Syndesis
Telephony Online - USA
Subex, the revenue management provider from Bangalore, India, which bought British revenue assurance company Azure in April for $140 million... more»

Subex in largest software buy abroad
Business Standard - India
Subex, a telecom software product firm, is making the largest-ever overseas acquisition by an Indian software player by acquiring Canada-based... more»

Subex acquisition to boost performance
Economic Times - India
Software company Subex's telecom industry vertical will get a boost from the acquisition of Syndesis. The fulfillment and assurance segment in the... more»