NetCracker Service Inventory
As Communication Service Providers (CSPs) strive to offer converged services, service management gains unprecedented significance. The ability to combine service components from different infrastructure silos to create an end user service in an efficient, timely, and flexible manner has long been critical to service provider success.
The Service Inventory module design is based on NetCracker's deep experience building inventory-centric OSS solutions combined with emerging industry standards such as TMF's SID model recommendations.
At the core of NetCracker's Service Inventory module lies an open and unified Service Model that provides a configurable means of supporting any type and structure of service. Its key features include:
- User-configurable templates
- Service on service dependencies
- Assignment rules
- QoS requirements
- Rapid configuration and extension of Service Catalog components
Key benefits include:
- A comprehensive view of services
- Visualization of service components and relationships
- A technology-centric Service Model
- Pre-integrated, value-added modules and adherence to industry recommendations for data modeling
“We are rapidly deploying new converged services and network capabilities throughout our customer base. The flexibility of NetCracker’s platform allows us to adapt quickly to changing market and customer needs. In addition, we are able to transform our service layer through NetCracker’s Service Inventory module.” 
