A distributes digital OSS solution for service activation and verification
Ardvark’s Digital OSS is a systematic approach to service provisioning, activation and verification, a distributed suite of software applications that provides a scalable, robust system for service activation and verification. It is designed to assist operators to manage services quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively across multi-technology domains.
Ardvark Digital OSS
The service activation Operations Support system (OSS) is a critical lever for improving a service provider’s competitiveness. Described as the “central nervous system” of a service provider, the service activation OSS coordinates a service provider’s response to the market forces shaping service offerings and service delivery.
Ardvark has decades of experience specializing in service activation, pioneering several breakthroughs.
Ardvark Digital OSS Value Propositions
Model-Driven Architecture
Ardvark Digital OSS enables MNOs to entirely reorganize the service development and deployment process to reduce the effort and risk significantly with shortened service lifecycles. The model-driven architecture to service assembly lessens the time to market for new services.
Service can be paired using an active service model that holds service hierarchies collected from service delivery resources across the supply chain on the net, wholesale or unbundled. A more efficient service development process means lower operational costs too.
Service Layer Integration
Although MNOs and MVNOs aim to develop and deploy new services using the capabilities of SDP / IMS service layer technologies, realizing both economic and early go to market advantages, the potential of these platforms will have no impact unless the CSPs have a service activation OSS that can efficiently manage service entitlements and identity across service layers as they change and converge.
As communications and IT resources converge in the new service layers, Ardvark Digital OSS efficiently integrates with new subscriber information and data store architectures, such as federation and consolidation. The result is reduced integration cost and risk, and an increase in business agility.
Standards Alignment
Ardvark Digital OSS is aligned to TM Forum standards and programs, such as the key NGOSS components, especially the eTOM business process framework and the SID business entity model.
The solution is also aligned with integration standards, such as the OSS/J Order Management API, JSR 264, and can be implemented to help reduce the 'integration tax' that is typically associated with business requirements.
User-Centric Service Experience
Ardvark Digital OSS offers a convincing user-centric service experience that is important to reducing churn, winning market share and controlling operational costs.
Ardvark Digital OSS uses a subscriber-centric method to implement, validate and verify services, ensuring they are activated accurately and reliably.
Additionally, Service verification enhances the utilization of resource assets and helps with data cleansing, to prepare for the migration to new subscriber information data stores.
Multi Vendor Support
Ardvark Digital OSS provides multi-vendor support for full application distribution across large numbers of servers, adding the option to scale out horizontally as well as vertically. Horizontal scalability allows a service provider to start with smaller, low-cost servers, which can then easily expand as demand increases.
Additionally, it enables greater flexibility when planning platform transition or consolidation. Operationally, the solution leverages a commercial database, storage (SAN) and cluster management software, to further reduce both risk and cost.