Axiom Systems launches industry's first closed-loop service lifecycle solution

Axiom Systems has launched AXIOSS Active Catalog, said to be the industry's first solution to enable CSP's to adopt a closed-loop approach to service fulfillment. The Active Catalog compliments a new version of the AXIOSS product suite, V6, which is also generally available as of this month and is being previewed at the show.

AXIOSS Active Catalog extends the componentized approach adopted throughout the AXIOSS suite, decoupling product lifecycle management processes from OSS, BSS and network engineering. This enables service bundles to be defined and commercial offerings created from robust, tested and reusable building blocks, dramatically increasing the speed and efficiency with which highly customizable services can be created and launched.

"The complexity created by the myriad of moving parts present in today's networks means that CSPs are looking for highly structured service creation environments that can deliver flexibility in service design alongside consistency and control in maintaining ever-broadening service portfolios," said Ari Banerjee, Senior Analyst Telecom Software Strategies at Yankee Group. "By borrowing lean design and lifecycle management concepts from the manufacturing sector, Axiom Systems has been able to develop a service design and assembly platform which, for the first time, is capable of addressing all aspects of Customer Fulfillment Lifecycle Management (CFLM)."

Yankee Group defines CFLM as an end-to-end service fulfillment process in which products and packages available to the customer are based on network capabilities, in order to eliminate or minimize service-provisioning errors. This process manages service and resource catalogs, handles order and process orchestration and is able to manage the end-to-end orchestration of the fulfillment cycle.

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