ORACLE COMMUNICATIONS UNIFIED INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

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1 ORACLE COMMUNICATIONS UNIFIED INVENTORY MANAGEMENT KEY FEATURES Flexible, standards-based inventry f services, lgical and physical resurces Versatile catalg envirnment supprting multiple service and technlgy dmains Pre-built supprt fr numerus service and technlgy dmains Federatin framewrk fr cperatin with existing inventry Mdular SOA-based architecture with flexible deplyment and integratin ptins KEY BENEFITS Enables rapid intrductin f current and next-generatin services and technlgies Facilitates faster time t revenue thrugh pre-built supprt fr cmplex next-generatin services Enables rapid deplyment thrugh inventry federatin Lwers perating csts with preintegratin t cmplementary Oracle applicatins Eases integratin with pen SOA standards Wrks seamlessly with ther Oracle Cmmunicatins OSS applicatins n a cmmn technlgy platfrm Oracle Cmmunicatins Unified Inventry (UIM) is an pen, standards-based applicatin that prvides an intelligent inventry f cmmunicatins services and resurces. Its flexible, extensible architecture enables the rapid design and efficient delivery f custmer-centric services and the management f current and next- generatin resurces and technlgies. With inventry federatin and pre-built supprt fr multiple cmmunicatins service dmains, UIM is designed fr cst-effective deplyment t address either a discrete requirement in an existing envirnment r alternatively as the strategic inventry applicatin acrss the enterprise. UIM s within Oracle s Rapid Offer Design and Order Delivery (RSDOD) Slutin Oracle Cmmunicatins Rapid Service Design and Order Delivery (RSDOD) slutin is the industry s leading COTS prducts based slutin that can truly enable a service prvider t deply a cnvergent platfrm acrss his entire range f services and netwrk cnfiguratins t supprt the rapid design and delivery f new technical services and cmmercial bundles acrss all custmer service channels. UIM is deplyed as part f RSDOD t achieve the fllwing: RSDOD Slutin in cnjunctin with Oracle s Siebel CRM, Oracle Cmmunicatins Order & Service and Oracle Cmmunicatins ASAP / IPSA, UIM supprts the fllwing service inventry key capabilities: At service design time, a rich catalg f cnsumer and business service patterns. At rder capture time, supprt fr technical service qualificatin, resurce reservatins, etc. At rder delivery time, a high-perfrmance service and resurce inventry repsitry with service design and assignment functins. This UIM cntext within the RSDOD slutin tgether with cmplementary Oracle applicatins is depicted as fllws: UIM Rles Definitin & life cycle management f Cnsumer & Business Services Definitin & life cycle management f service-assciated resurces and identifiers Assciatin f service instances t prduct instances r custmers Figure 1. UIM cntext within Oracle Cmmunicatins RSDOD Slutin.

2 Key Capabilities f Oracle Cmmunicatins Unified Inventry : Manage Lcatin mdel and interact with gecding systems (i.e. Oracle Spatial) t prvide strng lcatin validatin Manage Assets mdel and track virtually any type f physical and lgical inventry including netwrk addresses and Telephne Numbers Manage Cnnectivity mdel channelized SONET/SDH, and T/E/J-Carrier cnnectivity with a cmplete standards-based signal architecture t wrk chesively with packet cnnectivity Manage Netwrks mdel virtually any type f netwrk and track capacity when services are allcated t netwrk resurces Manage Services mdel virtually any type f service and assign services ver available resurce capacity Manage Netwrk Tplgy design and maintain netwrk cnnectivity in a graphical view rendered with maps at different view levels Manage Extensible Resurce Life Cycle transitin resurces thrugh varius states and keep histrical versins f changes t resurces and services Prvide Business Planning plan equipment build uts by creating business interactins t track planned equipment resurces and enable them at a later date Manage Reservatins reserve resurces fr prjects r custmers fr allcatin at a later date UIM s Cntext within Oracle s Netwrk Resurce Prtfli UIM can be deplyed in cnjunctin with Oracle Cmmunicatins Netwrk Intelligence and Netwrk Integrity applicatins t address netwrk resurce management challenges. Netwrk Resurce in this rle, UIM supprts the fllwing key capabilities: BSS OSS Netwrk capacity planning and design integrated with Oracle Cmmunicatins Netwrk Intelligence fr agile netwrk planning and netwrk ptimizatin. Lgical and physical resurce management integrated with Oracle Cmmunicatins Netwrk Integrity ensuring accuracy f inventry data. Netwrk asset lifecycle management in cnjunctin with Oracle E- Business Suite fr integrated netwrk asset lifecycle management acrss peratins and finance reducing netwrk csts and prviding financial cntrl and cmpliance. This UIM cntext in this rle tgether with cmplementary Oracle applicatins is depicted as fllws: Figure 2. UIM cntext within Oracle Cmmunicatins Netwrk Resurce Cntext. UIM Intrductin As part f the Oracle Cmmunicatins OSS (Operatinal Supprt Systems) applicatin suite, UIM and ther OSS applicatins are designed t wrk tgether seamlessly n a cmmn technlgy platfrm Oracle Cmmunicatins OSS Fundatin Stack based n Oracle Fusin Middleware. The ther applicatins in the suite are Oracle Cmmunicatins Netwrk Integrity, Oracle Cmmunicatins Netwrk Intelligence, Oracle Cmmunicatins Order and Service, and Oracle Cmmunicatins Design Studi. The UIM applicatin emplys a highly mdular architecture enabling bth technical and cmmercial cntrl f deplyment ftprints, illustrated belw. Wrk Order Mgmt (OSM) Service ASAP Activatin / IPSA E-Business ERP Suite (EBS) Inventry UIM NRM Netwrk Optimizatin Intelligence Discvery Netwrk & Recnciliatin Integrity UIM Rles Definitin, planning and readiness f netwrk infrastructure Database f recrd fr lifecycle management f physical and lgical netwrk resurces: as-planned, as-is, as-was Kept in sync with netwrk thrugh discvery & recnciliatin prcesses Oracle BSS Applicatin Oracle OSS Applicatin 2

3 Service Cnnectivity Device Lgical Device Accunt Netwrk Design and Mdeling Universal Resurce Gegraphic Address Telephne Number ORACLE DATA SHEET Dmain-Specific Technlgy Packs Enable cncepts, terminlgy & prcess variants specific t custmer-riented services, r netwrk-riented technlgies Phne Mbile Cnsumer GSM / 3GPP VIP POTS LTE Business CDMA / MBWA Vice 3GPP2 Clud Cmputing SaaS IaaS PaaS Internet TV-Vide Data Netwrking Bradband Metr xdsl HFC Cable TV Internet DTH L2 VPN Ethernet PDH SDH / MPLS L3 FTTx WiMax IPTV TDM SONET VPN Managed Slutins Cllabratin Call Hme Cnferencing Center Security Dmain-Independent Functinal Managers Manage service and resurce life cycles as well as relatinships between resurces, services and custmers Cre Platfrm Architectural framewrk and cmmn services UIM Plug-In fr Design Studi TMF SID-based Object Repsitry Java APIs Web Services SDK Figure 3. UIM architecture. The UIM applicatin cnsists f: CURRENTLY SUPPORTED TECHNOLOGY PACKS INCLUDE: L2 VPN MPLS L3 VPN Metr Ethernet Cnsumer VIP GSM/3GPP Cable TV A Cre platfrm with design time mdeling f cmplex inventry structures and behaviral rules thrugh their cmplete lifecycle tgether with a technical service catalg t enable service fulfillment f custmer services. Such design time cnfiguratin is enabled thrugh Design Studi, a graphical resurce and service mdeling envirnment. Design Studi ffers best-practices mdeling f custmer services and resurces and is als the single, integrated design time envirnment acrss UIM and cmplementary Oracle applicatins. The cre platfrm als prvides a set f Web services APIs fr service-riented architecture (SOA) integratin. A set f functinal managers that can be deplyed individually r in sets t manage certain entities such as telephne numbers, lgical and physical resurces within the netwrk and IT infrastructure r t enable service fulfillment thrugh the service catalg. A number f ptinal Technlgy Packs that prvide pre-cnfigured supprt fr specific dmains f netwrk and service technlgies. Oracle ffers a grwing library f these mdules, which include specificatins, characteristics, rules, capacity mdels, etc., as typically used fr the targeted dmain. In general, custmers may license such Technlgy Packs and extend them r develp their wn custm Technlgy Packs as part f their slutin using Design Studi fr UIM. The infrmatin mdel in UIM is based directly n the industry-standard TM Frum s (TMF) Framewrx Shared Infrmatin Data (SID) mdel. This infrmatin mdel: Enables the representatin f practically any cmmunicatins inventry bject current and next generatin. Leverages significant and nging cntributins and best practices frm the cmmunicatins industry int the TMF SID. Uses a cmmn language representatin that greatly simplifies standards-based integratin between systems reducing cst, time and risk in integratin. The alignment between UIM s infrmatin mdel and TMF SID is prtrayed belw. 3

4 Physical Prduct Prduct Service Custmer-Facing Service Resurces Cmmn Patterns Entity Invlvement Lgical Transmissin Entity / Cnnectivity / Pipe Device Netwrk Hardware Netwrk Address Cnfiguratin Life Cycle Resurce-Facing Service Tplgy Capacity Definitins Specificatins Characteristics Rules/Plicies Cmmn Business Entities Lcatin Party Business Interactin Rle Cllectin / Grup Figure 4. UIM infrmatin mdel based n the TMF SID mdel. Strategic Advantages f Deplying UIM Mdular deplyment apprach: UIM is designed fr mdular deplyment which enables initial adptin fr a specific and bunded business prblem ften in clse prximity with incumbent inventry slutins. It may then be easily expanded as required t prvide additinal capabilities as required. Fr example, it may initially be deplyed t manage lgical resurces, and then expand t manage custmer services and assciated physical resurces. Flexibility with inventry federatin: UIM prvides a flexible inventry federatin framewrk that cmplements and leverages existing inventry investments aviding the need fr an inventry migratin r transfrmatin prgram. This framewrk supprts three implementatin scenaris illustrated using Oracle Cmmunicatins applicatins as fllws: In the first scenari, existing inventry systems manage the netwrk cnnectivity fr cnnectin riented technlgies and UIM integrates with them t hlistically manage the services and cnnectivity helping t rapidly intrduce next-generatin services by leveraging existing inventry investments. In the secnd scenari, UIM manages service cnfiguratins and federates t Oracle Cmmunicatins Internet Name & Address which serves as a master resurce repsitry fr IP addresses. In the third scenari, Oracle Cmmunicatins MetaSlv Slutin manages service cnfiguratins and federates t UIM as the resurce repsitry f VLAN ID pls. Unified, cnvergent inventry: Increasingly cnvergent services must be delivered with inventry distributed acrss multiple surces with differing, nn-standard data structures UIM prvides a unified view f inventry using a cmmn, standard infrmatin mdel, withut requiring the expense, time, and risk f inventry cnslidatin. Custmer-centric inventry: Next-generatin services require custmer-centric rather than netwrk-centric views f inventry infrmatin UIM fully enables a custmer-centric view thrugh inherent, standard supprt fr custmers, prducts, services, and resurces. It has the flexibility t supprt cmplex relatinships fr next-generatin IP services. 4

5 Accurate, cnsistent inventry infrmatin: UIM prvides trusted, cnsistent inventry infrmatin t key business prcesses that span engineering, IT, peratins, and finance. Business Insight frm rich inventry infrmatin: UIM prvides pen, standards-based access t its inventry data and integrates with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Editin (OBIEE), t prvide flexible, cnfigurable inventry reprting capabilities t the numerus stakehlders. Cntact Us Fr mre infrmatin abut Oracle Cmmunicatins Unified Inventry, visit racle.cm r [email protected]. Cpyright 2012, Oracle and/r its affiliates. All rights reserved. This dcument is prvided fr infrmatin purpses nly and the cntents heref are subject t change withut ntice. This dcument is nt warranted t be errr-free, nr subject t any ther warranties r cnditins, whether expressed rally r implied in law, including implied warranties and cnditins f merchantability r fitness fr a particular purpse. We specifically disclaim any liability with respect t this dcument and n cntractual bligatins are frmed either directly r indirectly by this dcument. This dcument may nt be reprduced r transmitted in any frm r by any means, electrnic r mechanical, fr any purpse, withut ur prir written permissin. Oracle and Java are registered trademarks f Oracle and/r its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks f their respective wners. Intel and Intel Xen are trademarks r registered trademarks f Intel Crpratin. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks r registered trademarks f SPARC Internatinal, Inc. AMD, Optern, the AMD lg, and the AMD Optern lg are trademarks r registered trademarks f Advanced Micr Devices. UNIX is a registered trademark licensed thrugh X/Open Cmpany, Ltd