How NGOSS Compliance Changes the Integration Game (cont'd)

OSS Software Vendors
In each market sub-segment, numerous OSS providers are competing for the same business from the same service providers. This competition, coupled with price pressure from the service providers, is driving software vendors to reduce development costs in order to be profitable. Further, the OSS marketplace has become a conglomeration of companies that solve niche problems. As a result, vendors must be prepared to fit into the OSS puzzle presented to them by each service provider customer they engage.

System Integrators
While custom integration projects are typically the boon of telecom system integrators, mounting pressure from service providers to cut costs forces SIs to make their projects more predictable and repeatable, and thus less customized, to retain their margins. System integrators are looking to reuse elements across projects and use less staff to accomplish their results. In addition, with the large number of software suppliers in the industry and service providers using an ever increasing variation of software components, system integrators must continually learn how to integrate new elements.

Overcoming Integration Restraints with NGOSS
The TeleManagement Forum, through its New Generation Operations Systems and Software (NGOSS) program has recognized the challenges service providers, OSS software vendors and system integrators face. With the best resources of its 350 member companies, TMForum is developing solutions that will revolutionize the OSS' role in tomorrow's telecommunications industry.

Defining NGOSS
NGOSS represents a set of de facto standards for integrating business processes and embodying them in OSS/BSS solutions. NGOSS's end-to-end approach enables service providers to redesign their key business processes in line with industry best practices while allowing suppliers to develop software cost-effectively that can easily fit into a service provider's IT environment.

Packaged as a set of tools, NGOSS delivers a common business process map and information models that are coupled with pre-defined integration interfaces, architectural principles, and compliance criteria. NGOSS also provides a step-by-step methodology for using the tools, and defines a lifecycle for how to develop and deploy NGOSS-based solutions.

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