The OSS/CAD product dynamically reinterprets existing IT data sources (operational, business, and infrastructure) with a powerful semantic engine. It generates a virtual unified model of the key relationships that define important global concepts such as Customers, Services, and Network Infrastructure.

OSS/CAD renders these joined-up concepts in an immediately consumable, visual and electronically exploitable form, empowering users to monitor and manage the data quality and alignment of core systems. When applied to key business and IT processes (such as Revenue Assurance, Service Management, Data Alignment and Migration) you can experience substantial improvements can at unprecedented speed and accuracy, and at a fraction of the industry's cost expectation.

bomb Unlike traditional applications, OSS/CAD does not require lengthy design and deployment phases. OSSCAD deployments start from the ground up, using exiting IT system data as its template; it is the opposite of Big Bang Enterprise software.
runner Semantic reuse of existing data makes it possible to get results in "integration intensive" areas like Service Management, Revenue Assurance, and Data Alignment in timescales varying from 3 weeks to 3 months.
padlock-2 OSS/CAD's unprecedented speed means that it is practical to deploy it as a SaaS solution, with no lock-in and low monthly costs. Compare this to traditional perpetual enterprise software where a high cost is absorbed up front, without any guarantee of success. OSS/CAD replaces Big Bang risk of failure with incremental assurance of success.

The semantic technology (patented by Ontology Systems) provides a method called "Uplift - Infer - Merge" to join up existing data. This automates many of the key steps necessary in building systems that are traditionally integration intensive.

In the following short videos, first we explain why "Uplift - Infer - Merge" is disruptively fast and then we show you step-by-step how it works.

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Video 1

How OSS/CAD uses
ontologies.

2:17 minutes

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Video 2

How OSS/CAD can achieve
dramatic results so fast
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3:17 minutes

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Video 3

How OSS/CAD joins up OSS/BSS data.

3:58 minutes

 

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OSS/CAD Runtime

  • Semantic processing environment into
    which OSS/CAD Solution configuration is
    deployed in the form of User OntoPacks
  • Hosts OntoScope, OSS/CAD's web-based
    user-configurable GUI.

OSS/CAD Modeller

  • Authoring tool for User OntoPacks
  • Tightly integrated, round-trip
    configuration workbench providing
    intuitive visual tools for fast, iterative
    design-time interaction with the
    OSS/CAD Runtime.

OSS/CAD OntoPacks

  • Standard OntoPacks from Ontology
    Systems provide out-of-the-box
    functionality extending the capabilities
    of the basic OSS/CAD Starter Pack
  • Functions include Service Impact
    Analysis and Knowledge Analytics.

 


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OSS/CAD 2.5 is one of a new breed of applications that change the way CSPs can leverage their OSS/BSS investments.
Nancee Ruzicka
Sr. Research Analyst - OSS/BSS Global Competitive Strategies
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