Network Cadence this week announced the launch of "The Service Model" catalyst. It’s a collaboration involving Qwest and Comptel Corp. that builds on the success of the Product and Service Assembly Initiative (PSA). The first phase will be demonstrated at Management World in Nice, May 5-8.
Part of the TM Forum's technology program, the Service Model catalyst will demonstrate that a consistent approach to the way that services are defined, whether telecom-, OSS- or Web-services, is the key to service providers realizing the true efficiency and agility benefits of service assembly.
The catalyst builds on the PSA, adopted by TM Forum as a standard in November 2007, which established that a "Service Assembly" approach, where CSPs organize their business into an agile factory that can support the rapid creation, assembly and launch of new products and services, could yield significant time and cost benefits.
The core methodology is provided by Network Cadence and is a subset of its Service Lifecycle Management Model (SLMM).
