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Service Management (Fulfilment and Assurance) Consolidation Update

In previous articles I’ve reviewed the consolidation of the service fulfillment space amongst small and medium sized companies: OSS Consolidation Part 1: Examining Service Management (Fulfillment and Assurance) – original article that provides the definitions used, explained the disconnect between the two categories of fulfillment and assurance, and provided a service fulfillment landscape. Update on […]

Update on OSS Consolidation Part 1 Weblog Article: Service Management

At the start of April I wrote about the consolidation in the service management space and the major trends of: Consolidation of functionality.  Just like enterprise IT, as mature functions are subsumed.  For example, once upon a time a service provider would buy a VoIP fulfillment platform, now multi-service fulfillment is the norm. Emergence of […]

OSS Consolidation Part 1: Examining Service Management (Fulfillment and Assurance)

Starting with a few definitions: Service Fulfillment systems support processes that ensure service providers give requested services to customers in a timely and correct manner, so called Order-to-Cash cycle. Service Assurance solutions monitor service performance based on the customer’s view, not the network manager’s view, based on defined key performance indicators (KPIs), key quality indicators […]