Policy Management Market Forecast 

Tranparency Market Research

-"Policy management software market is gaining momentum as more number of network operators are using policy solutions to generate revenues from new services and to optimize the subscriber experience. Policy management software industry is set to witness strong growth rate in the near future with increasing policy management applications and new vendors."

-"The global sales of policy management software reached $589 million during 2011 and expected to go beyond $1.9 billion by 2016. Wireless market is the most popular segments of policy management software industry."

Infonetics

-"The global policy management software market grew 32% in 2012, to $774 million"

-"Policy solutions for 3G networks provided much of the momentum, though policy deployments for LTE networks are on the rise as operators integrate policy control to better monetize network investments"

-"Openet is the reigning policy management software revenue market share leader for the 3rd year in a row, followed closely by recently-acquired Tekelec."

-"PCRF vendors will play an active role in software-defined networking (SDN) standardization initiatives, possibly aligning them with existing policy management solutions."

-"Policy management will play a part in operators' M2M strategies to varying degrees, from providing a better way to manage embedded mobile device traffic, to making available traffic prioritization and QoS guarantees for M2M applications."

-"Infonetics forecasts the global policy management market to grow to almost $2.4 billion in 2017"

Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan

-"Subscribers today want personalized pricing plans and service options, which means policy management will need to play a pivotal role in making such personalized service offers work," said Karl Whitelock, director global OSS/BSS strategy at Stratecast. "In order for service providers to differentiate themselves through innovative service offers, they need to infuse their real-time rating and charging capabilities with policy management. Amdocs has taken a lead in the policy rules market through its mid-2011 acquisition of Bridgewater Systems, and the integration of policy functionality into its rating and charging engine."

-"Policy control is now widely recognized as a key strategic tool for service providers, enabling rapid and dynamic monetization of innovative data services," said Rebecca Prudhomme, vice president of product and solutions marketing at Amdocs. "We continue to see strong global demand for our proven Amdocs Policy Controller/PCRF solution, as well as for Amdocs Omni-convergence and Amdocs Data Experience Solution, integrated policy and charging solutions designed to help our customers fast-track the monetization of popular market offers." 

-"Stratecast estimates that the policy management market, which comprises policy rules/PCRF and policy enforcement technologies, will reach $3.9 billion by 2017, with the policy rules or PCRF market segment accounting for approximately 60 percent of this total."

ABI Research 

-"Mobile data usage has skyrocketed over the last year or two, and mobile network operators are struggling to keep up with the surge in demand. Operators need policy solutions to manage the bandwidth congestion. Forecasts from ABI Research show that the market for policy management servers in mobile broadband networks will grow from approximately $350 million in 2010 to almost $1.6 billion by 2016."

-“In most businesses, a big increase in demand for your products and services would be considered a good thing,” says principal analyst Jim Eller. “Instead of trying to block or throttle data traffic, mobile operators need to figure out how they can profit from the huge opportunity that has fallen into their laps. With worldwide data traffic volume growing at a CAGR of more than 50% annually, trillions of dollars in data revenues are at stake.”