Examining The Data Integration Challenges Of Developing Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs)

• Examining the data integration challenges in developing
   from silo based architectures to SOAs

• Evaluating experience and strategies employed by
   different service providers to achieve data integration
   for SOAs

• Assessing the role of industry data models like the TM
   Forum SID and other interface standards

Workshop Facilitator:  John Wilmes, Chief Technical Architect, Communications Sector, Progress Software

Planners with CSPs are expected to ensure that network resource supply is sufficient to cater for all network resource consumption. Often the planners have few tools available to them other than in-house spreadsheet based analysis of data from inventory. CSPs often have multiple inventory sources with differing data sources deployed and it is difficult to see the bigger picture.

The result is that for larger Tier1 CSPs there is a conservative oversupply of network resources to ensure that there are no roll-out surprises. For smaller Tier2, Tier 3 CSPs, the result is often the opposite, not enough network resources resulting in continual reactive build for customer orders resulting in service fulfillment delays as planning is done on a per contract basis.

Network Intelligence addresses this issue by providing a federated view of network inventory data, applying financial cost modeling for network costs and using an optimized routing engine to convert product demand forecasts into engineering requirements with real network measurable costs and network resource consumption. The outputs are financial budgeting, network build and network resource impact plans.

In this Session, Eamon O'Grady, Product Manager of Network Intelligence will present the benefits of applying Network Intelligence solutions to calculate financial network cost budgets and network build requirements using product sales forecast data, and traffic growth trending. Through Product Demo's, CSPs can do sensitivity analysis to model various product growth scenarios to find out the network cost and network build requirements of existing and new product take up and growth.

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