Comptel Corp. today announced that BT and Progress Software will be participating in the second phase of the Service Model Catalyst, as it explores the creation of new converged services that include cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) components.
The collaborative effort brings together business use cases from BT and Qwest as co-sponsors, with BT providing cloud brokering and cloud assurance services on Amazon Web Services' EC2 platform, Comptel providing a consolidated product and service catalog, Network Cadence providing systems integration with a service fabric broker for fulfilment and assurance orchestration, and Progress providing a management tool for the canonical data model.
"BT believes that, if customers and end-users are to see the huge, potential benefits of cloud computing, vendors, suppliers and communications service providers (CSPs) will need to work together to ensure interoperability," said Gary Bruce, Catalyst lead, BT Innovate & Design. "The Service Model Catalyst presents an excellent opportunity for us to work together to push the boundaries of cloud computing management."
The second phase of the Service Model Catalyst will consist of a technical demonstration that shows how CSPs can reduce the time and cost to launch new converged products that include cloud-based components, by applying a consistent model to the definition of service components prior to their assembly.
The first phase was launched by existing participants Comptel, Network Cadence and Qwest at Management World 2009, and built on the Product and Service Assembly (PSA) initiative, which established that a service assembly approach, where CSPs organize their business into an agile factory that supports the rapid creation, assembly and launch of new products and services, could yield significant time and cost benefits.
The Service Model Catalyst will be on display within Forumville at this year's Management World Americas, taking place December 8-10, 2009 in Orlando, Florida.
