DataXtend Resources
The Semantic Dialogues tells the story of how National Networks, a fictional telecommunications service provider, pursued and achieved data interoperability within their SOA infrastructure. The story begins with an urgent request from Operations for a fix to a problem that's keeping them from billing for new services. Assured that extensions can be made to the common data model (the SID) for the COTS billing system that's causing the headache, the problem is resolved in short order. The story then goes back a year to a time when the lack of a data interoperability layer made similar problems seem insurmountable and a tiger team is formed to put in place an OSS/BSS architecture that will change the way the CSP does business.
Common Models in SOA: Tackling the Data Integration Problem
Creating an SOA without a data integration strategy to address semantic challenges will limit an SOA project at best, and doom it to failure at worst. Creating a common model ensures that all the information passed between the various systems and services within the SOA is consistent. This approach can significantly reduce SOA project timescales, lower development costs and avoid problems associated with poor data quality. This paper, written by Dave Hollander, Mile High XML, presents ideas on how you can tackle the data integration problem head on.
Using the SID in OSS/BSS Integration
The whitepaper, Using the SID in OSS/BSS Integration, capitalizes on established integration expertise and talks about how users of the SID can improve productivity, reduce costs, and shorten the time to market for new services.
Common Information Modeling in a SOA Environment
This Stratecast report explains how telecommunication providers can overcoming the obstacle to rapid OSS/BSS integration. It explores in depth the Common Information Model (CIM) approach to data exchanges between systems, and as Stratecast sees it, the mismatch between data models in diverse OSS/BSS systems is the real reason that integration has been so difficult and the benefits of SOA so hard to achieve.
Addressing Data Integration Challenges with SOA - Survey Results
Progress Software released the results of a study it commissioned with Forrester Consulting revealing data integration efforts are increasing across most major industries as a result of the demand for real-time globally accessible data. According to findings, IT professionals are severely challenged in keeping pace – still mired in manual processes and ad hoc fixes. SOA is growing quickly and the survey results identified SOAs as the emerging solution across enterprises to achieve successful end-to-end data management and integration results.
Data Integration: Defining the Common Model
Network transformation and process agility are telecoms industry imperatives. Read this article and learn how a common data model architecture greatly facilitates data translation, data aggregation, rule execution, and other features required for data interoperability.
XSDs Are Not Enough
The whitepaper, XSDs Are Not Enough: Leveraging Telco's Abstract SID Information Model for an SOA, discusses the state of TM Forum's Shared/Information (SID) model, and the need to modify, extend, and update it.
Scaling SOA through EAI Enhancement
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) increases business agility by providing loose coupling of systems, standards-based technologies, improved vendor interoperability through the use of standards, and highly reusable service interfaces. Get this whitepaper and read how to scale (or build) an SOA while improving productivity, reducing manual governance, and optimizing performance.
Distribute Your Applications and Mobilize Your Data
This white paper presents some ideas and thoughts on how companies, and government, can distribute and synchronize your data across multiple locations, even while you are on the move.
Checklist for Evaluators of Data Replication Solutions
A guide intended for organizations who have committed to developing a distributed application environment and are evaluating various database synchronization solutions.
Progress Spotlight Series: Application Integration Using the SID
Listen to the first in a new webinar series that will build on last year’s popular book on data interoperability, Application Integration Using the SID, co-authored by John Wilmes. In each session, John Wilmes and other experts will walk through a section of the book and present a demonstration to bring the concepts to life, highlighting how DXSI adds value to the process. The webinar will provide an in-depth explanation of scope definition and interface analysis through a review of the Enhanced eBonding Catalyst.
NGOSS Contracts: The Key to Improved Interoperability
Getting from NGOSS contract to implementation is not always clear. This webinar will provide an overview of NGOSS contracts and what role they play in enabling an adaptable OSS/BSS environment. In it, John Wilmes presents a case study that demonstrates how IBM is using NGOSS contracts as part of a solutions framework, and he'll give you an overview of SOA-based NGOSS solutions available today from IBM and Progress Software.
Rolling Out Mobile Broadband Services at Ice.net
Learn why ice.net chose DataXtend Semantic Integrator (SI) and Progress® Sonic ESB™, to enable integration of the company's OSS and BSS systems. Listen as Thomas Norberg, CIO of Ice.net, presents how the TM Forum NGOSS standards were applied to SOA enabling and hastening the automation of key processes for ice.net services offerings.
SOA and NGOSS Contracts: A Practical Approach to Integration
Many service providers are achieving success by applying the best practices of NGOSS to their IT transformation projects. This is because NGOSS standards cover the key technical aspects necessary for success — architecture (TNA), applications (Applications Framework - TAM), process (Business Process Framework - eTOM) and data (Information Framework - SID). You can use these standards and concepts to build a service oriented architecture (SOA) to help meet your IT Transformation goals. Listen to this archived webinar presented by John Wilmes and Ian Best, TM Forum, and learn how you can apply these frameworks toward your goals and how NGOSS and NGOSS contracts support the creation of a standards-based service oriented architecture (SOA).
Why Use a Common Model for OSS/BSS Data Integration?
OSS/BSS integration for an SOA requires data interoperability. Successful data integration for SOA requires real-time mediation to keep data consistent. Listen to this on-demand webinar and learn how you can reduce the risk of incorrect results due to semantic mismatch, understand the impact of a requirement change on your SOA before it happens, and simplify the adoption and use of a common data model.
What is NGOSS and what can it do for you?
Presented by John Wilmes, Chief Technical Architect, Progress Software, and Ian Best, Senior Product Manager, TM Forum. During this webinar you will hear about NGOSS, the industry's only true standard for development and deployment of easy to integrate, flexible, easy to manage OSS/BSS components. Topics covered include what are the objectives of NGOSS, what are the basic concepts and building blocks of NGOSS, how is it providing value, and howcan you start applying NGOSS to your environment.
What's New with the TM Forum Information Framework (the SID)?
This webinar, presented by John Wilmes, Progress Software, and John Reilly, Distinguished Fellow and Subject Matter Expert,TM Forum, presents why the use of the Information Framework (SID) is critical for simplifying OSS/BSS integration. Topics covered include the role of the Information Model in NGOSS Contracts, highlights of new book, Application Integration Using the SID, including references to case studies, a preview of the latest DataXtend SID Model Browser, SOA adoption for OSS/BSS, and how standards enable loose coupling between systems.
Automating NGOSS: Building NGOSS-based SOA Solutions Using NGOSS Software Tools
Get an overview on two of the key NGOSS elements, the Enhanced Telecom Operations Map® (eTOM) and the Shared Information and Data (SID) Model. Learn how they relate to each other and why they are important in building easy to integrate, standards-based and SOA-based OSS/BSS solutions. In addition, you will hear how NGOSS software from IBM and Progress Software are being used by service providers today in the transformation of legacy OSS to NGOSS-based SOA environments.
Data Integration with OSS/BSS
Application integration in OSS/BSS is costly and time-consuming but necessary in order to innovate to introduce converged services and enhance the customer experience. Listen as Dr. Lorien Pratt, Director, Global OSS/BSS Competitive Strategies, Stratecast Partners, and John Petrie, Progress Software, deliver an informative webinar that discusses the shift towards a data-centric approach to OSS/BSS integration.
Working with the SID: Featuring Comments by Yogen Patel of CEON
Get an overview and tutorial of the DataXtend SID Model Browser and DataXtend SI. Listen as Yogen Patel, VP Marketing, CEON, and John Petrie, Progress Software, discuss the lessons learned from CEON's implementation of the TM Forum's Shared/Information Data (SID) model. You will also hear of available resources for learning more about the SID and tools for SID project success.
Reliable Data Replication for Your Mobile Workforce
Hear how Cole Systems, a leading system integration firm, enabled the distributed field sales force of the Indiana Lottery to manage the entire sales process from a single mobile device - driving increased customer employees satisfaction and substantial revenue growth. This webcast focuses on how effective data synchronization will enable your mobile employees to obtain up-to-date information from headquarters, therefore, able to make smarter decisions and increase sales.
Model Driven Integration
This webinar discusses the importance of Model Driven Integration (MDI) and how it can be applied to solve critical data management challenges at various levels of enterprise infrastructure.
Disconnected Doesn't Have to Mean Out of Sync
This webcast illustrates how DataXtend RE enables retail establishments to share sales activities with headquarters, and provide better point-of-sale experiences at their connected stores. The webcast focuses on problems developers face when developing and deploying an application on the edge of the enterprise, solutions to help deal with problems, and how Synchronics used DataXtend RE to solve similiar problems for Lego Group.
An Introduction to DataXtend CE
Listen to an overview and tutorial covering the major features of the DataXtend CE. This is a key resource for anyone evaluating DataXtend CE.
DataXtend CE Product Family
The data sheet for Progress DataXtend CE (Caching Engine) product family
Winning the Future - Take the first step toward rapid business transformation.This E-book includes interviews with Susan McNeice, Stratecast, and John Wilmes, Progress Software. The E-book explores the business case for why transformation is critical for competing in the applications business. It also explains what NGOSS is and where the TM Forum is trying to take their standards. You'll also learn how some top CSPs have used SOA and the TM Forum Information Model to drive successful transformation. |
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Business Transformation with TM Forum Solution Frameworks and SOAThis book, the latest in a series that describes how to adopt and apply the TM Forum solution frameworks (NGOSS), focuses on the increasing need for business transformation: how to implement a "next-generation" business model by improving business process effectiveness to attain strategic goals. For success, the business must transform from technology - to market-driven which enables them to gain effective business processes, agile resource management and efficient resource allocation. Co-authored by Serge Garcia, Iwan Gramatikoff and John Wilmes, this book identifies the main challenge as finding the best path to follow for business transformation, and endeavors to provide a practical tool to guide enterprises to recognize and build their path to the next generation model. You can purchase the book on Amazon.com. |
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The ACORD Information Model: A PrimerThe ACORD Framework is the foundation for information architecture in insurance. The most detailed facet of it is the Information Model, a conceptual view of the entire insurance industry. The ACORD Information Model: A Primer, introduces the Information Model in the context of the Framework to help you visualize the importance of data to your overall business transformation. Co-authored by Frank Neugebauer, Assistant Vice President of Technology for ACORD, Ken Ekers of Prima Solutions, and Boris Bulanov, Senior Director of Technology for Progress Software, this book takes you from the evolution of semantic data integration, through the high-level concepts of the Information Model and on to a discussion of how the business requirements of the Information Model map to the relevant XML schema. To qualify for a free copy of this book, please email sales@progress.com. |
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Application Integration Using the SIDThis book provides detailed, step-by-step guidance on scoping, analyzing and designing OSS/BSS integration projects that leverage NGOSS (New Generation Operations Systems and Software) frameworks and integration tools for data interoperability. Written by TM Forum's Sr. Technical Program Manager, John Reilly, and co-author John Wilmes, Progress Software, this book is the third in a series that describes how to adopt and apply the TM Forum's NGOSS program. This book is a companion to the previously released Getting Started Using the SID: A SID Modeler's Guide. You can purchase the book on Amazon.com. |
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Getting Started Using the SIDTo help you learn your way around the SID, this book, by John P. Reilly, a Sr. Technical Program Manager with the TeleManagement Forum, is the second in a series of books that describe how to adopt and apply the TM Forum's NGOSS program. Getting Started with the SID explains how to take all or part of the SID as-is and refine and extend it based on your organization's information requirements. It teaches you the importance of SID modeling patterns and how to apply them, and provides exemplary guidance on how to transform the SID information model into the SID data model. You can purchase the book from TM Forum. |
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IBM RedbookThe IBM Redbook: Implementing Technology to Support SOA Governance and Management discusses implementing NGOSS-based SOA solutions—such as DataXtend SI—for OSS/BSS transformation and tangible benefits. Read the Executive Overview, or download the complete IBM Redbook today. |
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SOA: Socially Oriented ArchitectureTechnical Opportunities, Social Challenges. In this E-book, Hub will make you rethink the centralized, top-down approach to SOA governance and develop a consensual form of governance that supports a socially oriented architecture. This E-book presents ideas on how to create federated communities among diverse SOA participants for richer, more dynamic user experiences. |
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