Are new services and technologies in your BSS/OSS eroding your margins?

In your position, frustration comes with the territory. The introduction of new technologies takes too long. Deployment delays cause market opportunities to slip. The cost of supporting new technologies erodes your already thin margins.

Add system integrators, equipment suppliers and software vendors to the mix. Each views the solution to a new technology introduction from their narrow perspective. But none address the big-picture challenges you face, such as:

• Ensuring that what is specified by engineering, is what is ordered by procurement, is properly cataloged and reconciled against invoices, and is tracked throughout the supply chain
• Obtaining the normalized attributes for new equipment necessary to build records in engineering, procurement, supply chain, materials management, fulfillment and asset management systems
• Making sure location information is accurate, so equipment delivery, installation, and service fulfillment don't delay customer service and installation intervals. Plus, administering that location information across the dozens of systems that rely on its accuracy
• Sharing vital interconnection data with trading partners to keep complex orders on track

The data administration you do is a necessary part of any deployment. Yet it can be time and resource consuming, and often, downright exasperating. But much of the angst is unnecessary. By deploying an Industry Information Infrastructure, you could lower your data administration costs by up to 90 percent. And maybe even bring your blood pressure down a notch or two.

Telcordia Common Language® Information services offers a comprehensive, managed information infrastructure that facilitates the information exchange you need to simplify your systems integration processes. It provides:

• A data framework with standard structures and formats
• A dictionary with syntax rules
• A hosted product registry and naming engine with identifiers that is constantly updated
• A publication and distribution engine

There are no short cuts. All the information must be gathered, formatted and distributed, and only Telcordia has committed to do it industry wide. Our ever-expanding list of cooperative partners includes over a thousand equipment vendors and OSS/BSS providers. Click on individual products to learn more about this unique offering from Telcordia and discover how you can simplify your network administration by tapping into this one-of-a-kind resource.

Learn more about Common Language Information Services:

• Common Language Equipment Information Service
  Providing a consistent, meaningful and unique method of identifying equipment, its capabilities and its classifications.
• Common Language Location Information Service
  A single source of network location information that helps provide efficient, seamless collaboration with trading partners.
• Common Language Connections Information Service
  Providing carriers and service providers with a way to represent physical and logical connections.
• Common Language Services Information Service
  Providing the industry with a single, flexible approach to define and communicate service orders.