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Evaluation of OSS/BSS status in an organization

Last post 06-12-2007, 11:57 AM by SanyamR. 1 replies.
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  •  06-12-2007, 8:17 AM 694

    Evaluation of OSS/BSS status in an organization

    Hi,

    I’m working for incumbent telecom operator. Our OSS and BSS applications are spanned over many organizational units. Now we are trying to conduct survey on our complete OSS/BSS domain. The goal is to eliminate duplicated functionalities, identify missing applications and required connections between isolated applications and to define one common strategy for further development. We agree that we should follow TMF NGOSS recommendations. Now we have dilemma on how to complete this task.


    One way is to identify our business processes and compare them with eTOM. We are aware that this approach is probably better one but if we drill down to Layer 3 processes and compare them, it will need a lot of time and a lot of people involved until we get some useful results.


    The other approach is to start with TAM and compare existing application functionalities and contracts with TAM description. But the problem is immaturity of TAM. Mapping between TAM and other frameworks (SID and eTOM) are not well defined yet.

    Can anyone help on this? Which way is better?

     

  •  06-12-2007, 11:57 AM 695 in reply to 694

    Re: Evaluation of OSS/BSS status in an organization

    Hi,

    TAM is the best starting point if you are collecting information and mapping legacy systems/applications against NGOSS defined architecture. I would suggest to use TAM as it is the only way currently to map Applications against recognized OSS/BSS components. eTOM only defines the process and SID is the target data model that you want to achieve. 

    You might find this useful http://www.tmforum.org/browse.aspx?catID=2390&linkID=32370.

    Regards,
    Sanyam

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