Accelerate OSS/BSS agility by migrating to a new generation OSS based on XML and Web services

Until now, there has been a lack of industry standards for the integration of operations and business support services (OSS/BSS) applications within telecommunications businesses. This has rendered interoperability between systems extremely complex, making them costly to build and maintain, and having a direct impact on operational costs and quality of service. It also affects operators’ profitability by impairing their agility – the ability to rapidly deploy new products and services to gain a competitive edge in an ever-changing environment.

XML and Web services are revolutionizing the way that organizations exchange and act on data. Microsoft applications and technologies provide the best way to develop and deploy OSS/BSS applications and take advantage of this revolution.

Led by the TeleManagement Forum, the New Generation Operation Systems and Software (NGOSS) initiative is now well engaged in defining an industry-wide business framework.

This opens the way for implementing NGOSS specifications using generic off-the-shelf products that natively support XML technologies, rather than of proprietary packages. This is good news for telecommunications service providers and other xSPs that need open, flexible, and powerful solutions to manage their OSS/BSS systems.

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