As the number of services increase, service shelf life reduces, and the need to constantly evolve feature bundles increases, it is imperative that the product & service production process is both cost effective and timely.
Today, product and service lifecycle management in ICT service providers is at best ad-hoc and often completely undefined. This creates process inefficiencies that can make the cost of new service development prohibitive, such as
- Dramatically reduce the time taken to map new product requirements to existing or needed technical capabilities
- Time taken to perform commercial analysis of technical service design
- Time and cost to change OSS/BSS across vendors and organizations to deliver new products
Recently the ICT industry has invested heavily in evolving service execution environments with popular architectures based around SDP and IMS to promote a loosely coupled and rapid development of services. However the operational stack of systems and processes that are required to manage these new services are not in step with this innovation.
Axiom Systems’ Active Catalog provides a Product & Service Lifecycle Management Application that can bridge the design and operational communities within a typical telecoms environment with the goal of enabling a service production line.
The Active Catalog enables the following:
- Discovery of re-useable engineering building blocks
- Capability and Compatibility rules for validation and capability management
- Testing and verification processes for catalog federation
- Design of Active Specifications from the assembly of building blocks into technical service or commercial offerings
- Capability inventory to understand how to upsell and support rapid service modifications
- SOA based Orchestration of OSS/BSS Lifecycle management of complex federated services
- Management of capability matrix within a service provider
- Management of a Catalog Federation
- Standards Based, PSA