In collaboration with leading market analyst firm Omdia (part of the Informa Group), Passionate About OSS has just released a new (paid) report, titled Inventory of the future: flexible, scalable, and highly dynamic.
The synopsis of the report is as follows:
Inventory solutions are the linchpin of a network operator’s OSS, facilitating many different work and data flows. They help manage product, service, and resource inventory, such as outside plant (OSP). But inventory systems often have poor data integrity. For example, the state of passive OSP infrastructure cannot be polled directly from the network via APIs. Manual records are required which are subject to error on data entry and error due to changes not being recorded.
Another challenge for inventory systems has been the move to network function virtualization (NFV). This has changed inventory from a static system of record to a dynamic, real-time platform. As a result, some of the largest OSS vendors have focused their efforts on this logical network inventory (LNI) of virtualized resources and left the physical network inventory (PNI) to OSP specialists.
Telecom networks are undergoing significant change, becoming virtualized, cloudified and highly dynamic. The decades-old inventory solutions many telcos use cannot cope with this complexity. Omdia believes the industry is at an inflection point. Recent technical advances provide compelling reasons to upgrade inventory. By doing so, CSPs can transform their operational effectiveness.
This report considers the changes in network and services that are managed with inventory systems. It also considers advances in non-inventory-specific tools that support monitoring and management.
The report doesn’t prescribe a singular future state for inventory. Rather, we look for the indicators today in which the future of inventory will walk tomorrow. This report considers recent technology advances, emergent strategies, and transformation factors that will influence the inventories of tomorrow.
The Table of Contents is as follows:
The companies mentioned in the report include:
Amazon / AWS Amdocs Anodot Apache Appearition Bentley Biarri BT Camunda Celona Ciena Blue Planet Comarch CommScope CROSS Network Intelligence Ericsson ETSI / 3GPP GE HPE IETF InfluxDB Itential ITU-T |
JanusGraph Kuwaiba KX MEF MongoDB Neo4J Netcracker Nokia OASIS OpenConfig Oracle PostgreSQL Redis Splunk SunVizion Synchronoss TigerGraph TM Forum Trendspek Twinkler VETRO FiberMap Vocus
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