This project will provide much needed visibility into the end-to-end movement of data in a service fulfillment cycle, providing real-time information about service order processing in a multi-vendor environment and avoiding the need to physically interrogate individual systems or applications to determine service order processing faults. Participating Companies: COLT Communications, ORMvision, QinetiQ, Vodafone Group, Atos Origin, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Exigen Group, IP VALUE GmbH, WebMethods Inc.
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The NGOSS Shared Information/Data model offers a new opportunity for service providers to enhance re-use and agility in the integration of OSS components. However, service providers are just beginning to gain experience with the approaches and tools that will be required to implement the SID model in their integration initiatives and to fully understand the potential benefits that can be achieved in the integration of OSS components through a common, industry-specific data model. Participating Companies: Covad Communications, France Telecom, Ceon Corporation, IBM Corporation Pantero Corp, Panti Computer Services
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Many of the pressures on the use of technology in business have their roots in the requirement to deploy new or improved business processes. Processes are often implicit within an organization, buried in the network of people and systems that has evolved over the years. As such, these processes are often very hard to formally observe and define. Participating Companies: Bell Canada, COLT Telecom Group Plc, Fundacao CPqD, Kingston Communications, QinetiQ, Vodafone Group, Mahindra British Telecom, TIBCO (Staffware), Teleca OSS AB, BOC Iberica
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This showcase will provide a peek into the technical program work being done by the recently formed CO-OP project. Several products will be used to demonstrate the 2G-3G management systems with common Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and border cell audit and synchronization specifications enabled by the emerging CO-OP specifications. Participating Companies: Alcatel, Ericsson, Huawei, Lucent, Motorola, NEC, Nokia Networks, Nortel Networks, Siemens AG
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The Data and Content Charging team intends to demonstrate a flexible and complete charging architecture that answers the needs of future Content and Data services spreading across today’s borders of fixed and mobile environments, involving Third Parties as well as customer self generated content and where a whole variety of Business relationships will be allowed. Participating Companies: Swisscom AG, Microsoft Corporation, RateIntegration, Telco Pro Ltd
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The objective of this Catalyst project to further investigate the value that MDA-based tools can add to practically realizing NGOSS.. Working through a service assurance scenario, the NGOSS methodology will be applied to create the requisite artefacts used to improve the integration of OSS components, using MDA to maintain consistency and facilitate automatic transformation of these NGOSS artefacts and their morphing across the views in the lifecycle Participating Companies: AT&T, BT Group Plc, QinetiQ, AutoMagic KB, Sonic Software, Tata Consultancy Corporation
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The processes undertaken to test, develop and realise TMF standards utilise only a small portion of the TMF community, which can cause lengthy lead times. Participating Companies: BT Group Plc, COLT Telecom Group, Covad Communications, NTT Group, QinetiQ, University of South Hampton, Agilent Technologies, AutoMagic KB, Invocom Limited, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation, Networking Technology Laboratory (BUTE), Sun Microsystems
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Revenue Assurances is still a young discipline in its formatting stages. The TMF Revenue Assurance team is working on defining basic concepts, and best practices. This Nice 2005 catalyst project will make these concepts and best practices more accessible to the industry by exemplify them in a challenging RA situation. Participating Companies: China Unicom, TeliaSonera, Atos Origin, cVidya Networks Inc, Datamat SpA, Huawei, MetraTech Corp, Subex Systems Limited, WebMethods Inc
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