Announcing Oracle Communications Service Catalog and Design (Doc ID 2973654.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

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Oracle Communications Service Catalog and Design 8.0 brings a paradigm change to how services are designed and completely transforms the design experience for CSP employees. Business owners and technical service designers alike can use the same SCD tool and immensely benefit from a modern no-code/low-code, intuitive and composable service design experience. The Service Catalog and Design will be the new superseding brand for Design Studio.

SCD address some of the most difficult CSP challenges around legacy design time tools and process:  

• Multiple fragmented catalogs causing process inefficiencies and data inconsistency.
• Siloed and manual workflows causing fractured processes that are non-conducive for collaboration.
• Code-heavy, error-prone design processes cause inaccurate designs and repetition of work.
• Longer cycle times for design and fulfilment leading to prolonged time to market for products and slow time to revenue.
• Catalog development and maintenance often requires professional services support, leading to high costs.

KEY FEATURES

• Guided Wizards for Business Users: Guiding the business users to design and configure the Product-Service-Resource (PSR) Models using a simple and intuitive graphical user experience; takes the users through a step-by-step process to define the complete model.
• Graphical user experience: Graphical experience using visual editor canvas to build the PSR model; contextual information describing the relationships between RSR specifications. Ability to define components to build the structure of the PSR model; select existing specifications or create new ones to create parent-child relationships while building the model.
• Domain specific guidance: Enabling domain SMEs to define domain specific intelligence to categorize the catalog entities; define models right first time right for various service and technology domains. Reduce domain learning curve to enable junior resources to be highly productive.
• Agility in solution development across large organizations: Different departments can independently define specifications and build solutions using a common collaborative design environment.
• Modern service design blueprint: An object-oriented approach to recursively break down service design problem into smaller sub-problems of designing a fully encapsulated entity in the service model. Design policies on each entity taking design parameters as inputs and evaluate the characteristics of underlying components. No-Code patterns to enable business users to define most common Design Policies.
• Design policy extensibility framework: Provides well-defined structure for the developers to implement complex Design policies described by the business user intent; highly flexible framework to allow CSPs to implement complex policies that are very specific to their business that require customizations.

KEY BENEFITS  

• No code/low code: Simplify service design with a composable and drag-and-drop based intuitive design experience.
• Agile service design: Reduce the cycle time for creating service models and rolling out new features from weeks to hours.
• Domain specific guidance: Enabling domain SMEs to define domain specific intelligence to categorize the catalog entities; define models right first time right for various service and technology domains. Reduce domain learning curve to enable junior resources to be highly productive.
• Right the first time: Create error-free service designs and increase design process efficiency by enforcing strict compliance against requirements.
• Lower cost and faster time to revenue: Reduce integration tax with a TMF compliant design tool and accelerate time to revenue using pre-defined templates and assets.
• One-stop unified service design tool: Increase collaboration between business users and product owners to drive an efficient automated process

Actions

Oracle Communications Service Catalog and Design can be downloaded from Oracle Software Delivery Cloud

Documentation for Service Catalog and Design can be found here.

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