Telcordia® Granite Inventory

By coupling an enterprise-wide view of your services, application-specific resources, and network with a comprehensive set of provisioning capabilities, Granite Inventory puts you firmly in control of your growth.

Telcordia Granite Inventory is a comprehensive, flexible, and scalable Fulfillment solution. It combines intelligent inventory, provisioning automation, and data synchronization functions that speed resource queries, minimize errors, and reduce the costs of system management. Based entirely on the industry-standard J2EE platform, Granite Inventory is a true "off-the-shelf" application and provides the most scalable fulfillment solution in the marketplace today. And its unique discovery and reconciliation capabilities provide operators with the opportunity for best-in-class data accuracy.

Using Granite Inventory's core system, enhanced with our full suite of modules, you can leverage all your resources - people, equipment, new technologies and your embedded systems and processes, and turn them into real business benefits by:

• Recovering stranded and lost assets, improving capital utilization, thereby reducing capital expenditures
• Automating your design, assign, and service fulfillment functions, thereby reducing operational expenses
• Accelerating order completion and introducing new services faster, thereby enhancing revenue potential

Strengthen your reputation for operational excellence and efficient resource management with Granite Inventory and our comprehensive approach to service fulfillment, which features:

• Data Partitioning, which offers controlled access of users, enabling enterprise customers to self-manage for cost reduction and new revenue
• Federation, which provides a consolidated view across all data sources to manage OSS transformation risk and cost
• Automated Synchronization, which eliminates costly data cleansing, uncovers unused capacity, and increases data accuracy to 95% or better

These are only some of the techniques that will help you maximize profit by captivating your audience with rich product offerings while remaining competitive on cost.

Telcordia employs a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach to increase your agility and enable interoperability among other applications, including existing BSS and OSS applications. Using SOA, Granite Inventory and Telcordia® Network Engineer can be united to link physical locations with logical assignments for increased levels of data quality with significantly reduced redundancy.

Granite Inventory is also backed by a wide range of services, including a comprehensive portfolio of implementation services to help you quickly achieve the most from your new Telcordia solution.

Core System

The base of the solution, extensible on its own via Granite Inventory's unique table-driven configuration capability, along with the ability to create user-defined objects. It includes the core database and core business logic.

Discovery

Provides discovery of network equipment and circuits along with a unique set of capabilities that automates the reconciliation of inventory data.

Automator

Extends automation capabilities to streamline such business processes as service provisioning, network element configuration, network build-outs, and rearrangements.

Activation

Allows a service provider to activate transport, AND circuits, AND services; enhances flowthrough provisioning to shorten provisioning cycles and maximize the average revenue per customer.

Assign and Design Web-service

Providing automated service provisioning and assignment functions to service providers by organizing circuit and service life-cycle management operations into an extensible and configurable SOA-based service.

AutoRouter

Uses user-defined criteria to automatically identify acceptable routes across a network, using an advanced search algorithm.

Range Manager

A number management solution that helps you manage, allocate, track, and associate all of your numbers and number pools.

IPAM

The IP Address Management module that manages and tracks IP address allocations over multiple networks now supports IP Version 6.

View

Lets you see your network your way, allowing you to drill down to any location, equipment, chassis, port, or slot. Our space-saving geomapping approach, along with the Graphics Rack Draw view and Floor plan layout, dramatically enhance the usability of network and service displays.

Web-Toolkit

A totally new way to design custom Web interfaces for diverse audiences, based on JavaServer Faces™, allows you roll out web applications without code development.

Works

A work order and task manager, enables you to track the entire network change process, from order to activation. Tasks are routed to user workload queues for approval, execution, and completion.