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 Ceon Product Control Center (PCC) is the communication industry’s first purpose-built software system focused on enabling service providers’ product and marketing personnel to construct and manage a catalog of complex product offerings. PCC automatically searches and generates valid product possibilities from generic templates. PCC also manages the entire lifecycle of offerings, including managing the implications of changes in constituent components, and exposing all created definitions to external B/OSS systems via standards-based interfaces and information models.
IP-transformation and accelerating competition is forcing service providers to be more creative and agile in rolling out new product offerings. The primary way in which operators can differentiate themselves going forward is around innovative product offerings. Ceon PCC has been developed to meet the product management challenges faced by operators in today’s marketplace, where product lifecycle management systems have now become a strategic imperative rather than an operational efficiency consideration. |
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Component Modeling
A component is defined as being either a base service or item that a subscriber consumes or uses to fulfill some need. The component modeling steps involve creating component categories and components specifications in the component catalog, specifying component attributes and values, and defining dependency and exclusion rules for components.
Product Specification Modeling
A product specification is a collection of components, and is the building block around which product offerings are created. The product specification modeling steps involve creating product specification templates, specifying the ‘value ranges’ or constraints for the component attributes, and generating valid product specification candidates via an automated search mechanism.|
Product Offering Modeling
A product offering represents what is externally presented to the market for the market’s use. This is what is sold in the marketplace. The offer modeling steps involve creating product offering definitions in the offer catalog by adding commercial elements (e.g. pricing, eligibility rules, channel, selling guides, etc.) to product specifications.
Managing Implications of Change
Product specifications are flagged as having been impacted from component changes if a component that was in the original product specification is retired (or went away), or is planned to be retired on a given future date, or if a component attribute changes. Product Offerings are flagged as having been impacted when the underlying product specification(s) change. |
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