DataXtend Resources
The Semantic Dialogues E-book 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. The story then goes back a year to a time when the lack of a data interoperability layer made similar problems seem insurmountable. A team is formed to put in place an OSS/BSS architecture that will change how this 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.
Application Integration Using the SID: A Practical Approach for Project Scoping and Design in Five Steps
Before your next implementation project, learn more about the challenges of scoping and design. Discover the five key steps to insure that you can overcome the challenges and end up with a complete architecture for integration. This white paper is based on a more detailed account in the book "Application Integration Using the SID" by John Reilly and John Wilmes and it addresses two high level issues that you will encounter during development and production.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Achieving First-Rate Customer Experience: Effective Order Management is Key
TM Forum Webinar, sponsored by Progress Software
With the increasing demand for new and converging services and technologies, communications service providers are challenged to provision and fulfil their customers' service requests under a common customer order, in a rapid and flexible manner, across multiple lines of business. Join us to find out how CSPs can manage the challenges of complex bundled service provisioning and fulfilment while leveraging their investment in existing B/OSS infrastructure.
Paving the Way to Smart Grid Modernization
Replay a webinar hosted by Progress Software and UISOL. During the webinar, we unveil our unique, standards-based reference architecture that uses a product integration bus to simplify technology deployment and upgrades. With our combined technology, integration and domain expertise, we also provide insights on:
- Market and regulatory conditions
- The readiness of legacy applications to support real-time smart metering data
- The cost and difficulties of integrating disparate utilities systems
- Steps for moving to a smart grid-compatible environment, cost-effectively and non-intrusively
Application Integration White Board Session with David Millman
Listen and watch as David Millman, Principal Architect, from the Office of the CTO, presents an interactive white boarding session that will help arm you with information you can use as you plan and build out your integrated infrastructure. During this informative presentation, David outlines some of the integration problems that may be ignored, techniques for dissecting your integration challenges, plus strategies and tactics employed by our most successful clients.
Addressing Service Management Needs in Space and Satellite Communication
TM Forum's Government and Defense Initiative, a community of defense service providers, integrators and suppliers are focused on the use of multi-national space-based networks in communications for defense operations. The Catalyst project is focused on using TM Forum Solution Frameworks to standardize support for Network-Centric Operations (NCO) which emphasize the role of networked communications in enabling cooperating forces to share information and situational awareness. Listen to this webinar andl hear how the Solution Frameworks can enable collaboration between decentralized forces and improve their effectiveness in missions. Joining John Wilmes during this presentation is Christy Coffey, Sector Head for Government and Defense, TM Forum.
Multi-standards Integration in Your Organization (Part III)
This is the third webinar in a series that builds upon last year's popular book, Application Integration Using the SID, co-authored by John Wilmes. Through the use of a sample project from the Harmony TM Forum Catalyst, this webinar presents the requirements for a multi-standards environment, how to broker exchange and mediation in a standards-to-standards environment, and how to manage this environment in the face of change.
Integration Infrastructure: More Than Meets the Eye
What happens when poor application integration decisions are made? As you know, various aspects of integration infrastructure are all connected but when you choose to address one aspect and ignore another, you make trade-offs that may not be immediately apparent. Listen to an archived webinar presented by Hub Vandervoort and get some thoughts on how you can make better decisions that will ensure your integration success.
Putting the Information Framework (SID) to Work for You
In combination with architecture, applications and process, information is one of the four pillars of the TM Forum Solution Frameworks (NGOSS). Listen as presenters provide examples from communication service providers who have achieved success in a range of projects -- from large transformation to simple application replacement -- using the Information Framework (SID). You will learn about the Information Framework from overview to implementation, including how it is structured, its relationship with other Solution Frameworks, and how to extend this information model to best meet your unique needs.
Addressing Change Management and Impact Analysis (Part II)
This is the second webinar in a series build on last year's popular book, Application Integration Using the SID, co-authored by John Wilmes. During this webinar, you will learn about the value of impact analysis on a data interoperability layer through the use of a sample project from the recent E-bonding TM Forum proof Catalyst project.
The ACORD Information Model: Charting the Way for Successful Data Integration
The ACORD Framework is the foundation for information architecture in insurance. Replay this on-demand webinar and hear Frank Neugebauer and Boris Bulanov introduce the Information Model (IM) in the context of the ACORD Framework. This webinar will present high-level concepts of the IM and help you understand the importance of data to your overall business.
Reduce Order Fallout and Keep Profit in your Pocket
Has multi-play service delivery increased your IT complexity and accelerated order fallout? Multi-play service delivery, evolving products and services, and ongoing customer churn have increased order fallout exponentially for many service providers. Industry analysts have stated that more than 25% of consumer orders are lost, stalled, or inaccurate. For enterprise customers, rates can be even higher. This not only results in lost revenue and increased operational costs, it diminishes the customer experience and pushes customers to your competition.
Leveraging the TM Forum Solution Frameworks (NGOSS) and SOA for a Service-oriented Enterprise
The problems of optimizing the function, content and granularity of SOA services – and putting them to work in a service-oriented enterprise – have existed as long as SOA itself. Listen as John Wilmes, Progress Software, and Iwan Gramatikoff, Edelweiss Consulting, talk about how to apply a comprehensive, repeatable process that supports the design and implementation of SOA-based Business Services based on TM Forum standard process and data models. You will also hear how to construct Business Services and Platforms that maximize the effectiveness of SOA within your enterprise and its partners and suppliers.
Application Integration Using the SID (Part I)
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.
Introducing the DataXtend SID Model Browser
This webinar provides an overview and tutorial of the major features of the SID Model Browser, including a live demo of the software. You will learn how to explore the domains and classes of the SID, understand the SID model hierarchy, search the SID model, and generate HTML reports in support of OSS/BSS integration projects that are using the SID.
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.
Data Interoperability to Fulfill the Promise of SOAPresented By John Wilmes , Martin Creaner SOA relies on standards. To fulfill the promise of SOA, you need data interoperability. It stands to reason then that there need to be standards for data interoperability. Listen as presenters share the good news that the standards are here, and they're ready for prime time. |
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Integration TaxPresented By Ken Rugg When we talk about data interoperability, many people ask, "What is an Integration Tax?" Well some technologists refer to the cost associated with bringing systems together as an integration tax. Progress Software believes that by deploying a common information model that will mediate data transfers and ensure data consistency across legacy, and new, systems, the enterprise will reduce their integration tax. Learn more... |
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The Value of Standards in TelecommunicationsPresented By John Wilmes Reap the benefits of standards when building a common model for your SOA infrastructure or enterprise. Listen to this podcast and hear how you can leverage the knowledge a group of industry experts instead of starting from scratch. You will also hear how Progress DataXtend SI can help extend the model you are working with. |
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Metadata in Data IntegrationPresented By Ken Rugg When we refer to "meta data" when talking about data interoperability, we are talking about data that describe or accompany other data. DataXtend SI uses metadata at design time to describe components of the exchange model. This podcast presents how metadata is used at runtime to configure and manage the operation of data services. |
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Gain Better Enterprise Visibility of Your SOAPresented By Giles Nelson What if you could gain better visibility of your SOA infrastructure? Listen as Giles Nelson presents his observations on the challenges that many enterprises face when trying to identify business requirements and deploy smart solutions that will support these requirements. |
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Common Models Being Used TodayPresented By Ken Rugg A 5 minute podcast that discusses what common models are being used today, how they fit in, and how Progress’ is helping you realize the value of deploying a common model within your enterprise application infrastructure. For example, one common model being deployed today is TM Forum’s Shared Information/Data (SID) model. By using the SID model, telecommunication companies are reducing costs because they can deploy new services faster and maintain semantic consistency across different services and systems. |
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What is a Common Model?Presented By Ken Rugg This podcast explains what a common information (or data) model is and how a common model it fits into SOA infrastructure. By adopting common data model architectures and ensuring data interoperability across enterprise systems, companies can avoid challenging, costly and inefficient new service deployments and at the same time maximize the potential of SOA. |
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SOA: Time to Value for ITPresented By Hub Vandervoort Hub Vandervoort discusses the steps for bridging the gap between formulating new business plans for change and creating the information technology in an SOA to support them. |
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Progress OSS/BSS Integration Using the SID
Learn how you can use standards-based, best practices through the TM Forum Information Framework (the SID) to provide scalable, maintainable data interoperability across the OSS/BSS integration lifecycle.
DataXtend CE Product Family
The data sheet for Progress DataXtend CE (Caching Engine) product family
The Semantic Dialogues E-bookRead a story of how fictional service provider, National Networks, creates a data integration team that is tasked to resolve the data interoperability issues that plague the company. At National Networks, IT is perceived to be an obstruction rather than an enabler, but their VP of Systems Architecture is determined to change that. Learn how this tiger team comes together to create an OSS/BSS architecture that transforms the way National Networks does business. The result... reduced operational expenses, improved customer service, and the ability to quickly bring new products to market. |
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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. |
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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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