The global communications industry is seeking technological advances that will improve time to market for new products and services. Suppliers have found that by producing integrated management components and solutions, product integration is simplified; hence decreasing the time it takes service providers to launch these new services. In order to achieve integrated management of components, a common vocabulary needs to be developed and agreed upon.
The Shared Information/Data (SID) model team provides the industry with this common vocabulary. By agreeing on a common set of information/data definitions and relationships, the team sets forth a common vocabulary used in the definition of NGOSS architectures. The SID team continues to develop the three different views of the common information framework, which provides different ways to conceptualize the information/data entities:
- A business view representation of the Business Entities that support the eTOM processes
- A system view representation in UML model format that supports a realization of a solution to meet the business need
- An implementation view representation given in platform specific language
Information about the current work of the SID project team may be found in the Interface Framework (SID) Charter which is available from the 'Downloads' section of this web page.