Seeking to bolster BSS/OSS data integrity and alignment, Ontology Systems has introduced “OSS/CAD 2.0,” a semantics and ontology-led service management application that uses a virtual Unified Service Modeling and offers service impact and fault prioritization as well as SLA impact analysis.

 

OSS/CAD helps service providers understand and maximize the value of the data within the infrastructure of their operational support systems. With OSS/CAD, ISPs, CSPs and MSPs are have a new way to interpret and query their data.

 

To build and deliver OSS Service Management applications, fixed, mobile and next generation carriers have been using OSS/CAD 1.0. Ontology promises enhanced features and functional improvements in version 2.0, such as a Service Impact Analysis OntoPack and the OSS/CAD Modeler development tool.

 

The Service Impact Analysis OntoPack provides an SIA application that uses OSS/CAD semantics capabilities that helps carriers build, deploy and manage service management applications.

 

Ontology’s CTO, Leo Zancani, said: “We have delivered semantics and ontology led service management application that has been deployed in a wide variety of scenarios including: overall BSS/OSS data integrity and alignment, service impact and fault prioritization, and SLA impact analysis. In operator deployments we have been able to align up to 7 separate OSS/BSS systems in under 3 weeks.”

 

OSS/CAD can also be used to speed up company’s end-to-end service management as it provides facilities such as the ability to detect and rectify misaligned systems, misused and unused assets.

 

Recently, QinetiQ, a defense and security technology company, selected OSS/CAD to provide key service assurance functionality for the UK Ministry of Defense’s Enabling Secure Information Infrastructure (ESII) program, for which QinetiQ (News - Alert) is the lead services provider. The company said that OSS/CAD will be integrated into the overall ESII program being delivered to the MoD to create a service assurance environment in which key user services can be managed across a federated heterogeneous policy-driven network of networks.