A lesson from history… I've been keeping an eye on the service catalog market for some time. I can't claim to be an early adopter though. My first brush with the concept was when I was given Cramer Service Catalog 1.0 to product-manage. From a professional perspective this was A Good Thing for me: It […]
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The Top-5 OSS/BSS Integration Things
Back, oooh, ages ago, I wrote about the top five OSS platform architecture things. Those where things (issues, concerns, designs, e.t.c.) that needed to be considered when delivering a new OSS product or project to ensure scalability and performance. Rarely does a new OSS application live in isolation. Integration with other systems in the OSS […]
Yoof Technology – Why The Old Still Own OSS
All those cool technologies out there, I wonder how any young developer will have space for them on their two-page curriculum vitae. And it’s not just the quantity, it’s the names. Languages, operating systems and middleware used to have nice short names and acronyms. Concise, optimised, no more than four characters long. But now we […]
Designing a Standards-Based Application
There are a number of ‘standards’ out there that, as a system integrator or product vendor, you may want to use within your OSS solution. Stuff like MTOSI, OSS/J, SID, 3GPP all look like useful starting points for inventory-like data models and their integration points. It is important to appreciate the difference between a standard’s […]
OSS and Data Migration Scalability – It’s Not Just About CPUs
I proudly discussed my finely crafted SQL statements in a previous post about Celona and data migration. The need to invest quite some time in learning a few more SQL tricks and building logically complex and very large single SQL commands (as opposed to conceptually simpler procedural PL/SQL routines) came about because I was trying […]