Data Interoperability in Telecommunications

DataXtend Semantic Integrator enables CSPs to meet the challenges of the rapidly evolving business climate.

Communications Services Providers (CSP) benefit from a loosely-coupled infrastructure in which IT assets can be quickly reconfigured to support changing business goals. In fact, major carriers, such as Deutsche Telekom, BT, Telstra and others, have coupled their business transformations with IT transformations to ensure maximum flexibility.

To support these transformations CSPs often look to the TM Forum's NGOSS frameworks. The quartet of frameworks that come together to create NGOSS are the Business Process Framework (eTOM), Information Framework (SID), Application Framework (TAM), and Systems Integration Framework (TNA); each of which builds from the business' viewpoint and then incorporates other viewpoints: system, implementation, and deployment.

DataXtend Semantic Integrator (SI) directly supports the SID and addresses the challenge of creating and maintaining cost-effective data integrations, a pivotal aspect of IT transformations. IBM promotes the use of DataXtend SI in their IBM Redbook: Implementing Technology to Support SOA Governance and Management, which discusses implementing NGOSS-based SOA solutions for OSS/BSS transformation and tangible benefits. You can read the Executive Overview, or download the complete IBM Redbook.

Catalyst Projects

Along with the real-world successes our customers have had, Progress participates in the annual Catalyst Showcase at TM Forum's Management World. Recently, DataXtend was part of the Harmony Catalyst II project , designed to demonstrate multi-play services with strict SLAs over a common Carrier Ethernet core infrastructure using NGOSS contracts between multi-vendor COTS products across multiple technologies.

DataXtend was also part of the E2E B/OSS Catalyst project, which developed a framework for enabling wholesalers to launch their products faster in the retail market.

Books

Application Integration Using the SID
A new book that provides detailed, step-by-step guidance on scoping, analyzing and designing OSS/BSS integration projects that leverage NGOSS frameworks and integration tools for data interoperability. Written by TM Forum's Sr. Technical Program Manager, John Reilly, and co-author John Wilmes, Chief Technical Architect, Communications Sector, Progress Software, this book is the third in a series that describes how to adopt and apply the TM Forum's NGOSS program. Purchase your copy from Amazon.com.

Getting Started with the SID
Getting Started with the SID, by John P. Reilly, a Sr. Technical Program Manager with the TM Forum, is the second in a series of books that describe how to adopt and apply the TM Forum's NGOSS program. This book explains how to take all or part of the SID as-is and refine and extend it based on your organization's information requirements. It teaches you the importance of SID modeling patterns and how to apply them, and provides exemplary guidance on how to transform the SID information model into the SID data model. Purchase your copy from TM Forum.

We Work On Your Behalf

When we say we're working on your behalf, we mean it. John Wilmes is our Chief Technical Architect for the Communications Sector. He's also the co-chair of the TMF's SID Technical Program, the specification lead of the OSS/J Pricing API, and a member of the OSS/J order management Expert Group.

For more information on what we can do to help you, contact us today.