Vector

Agile Service Fulfillment in a box

Based on production-proven, best-in-breed fulfillment solutions from Subex, Vector is a complete catalog-driven service fulfillment solution that enables service providers to

• bring in new and differentiated services to market rapidly;
• better serve customers with on-demand offerings and support; and
• drive costs out of their business through greater automation.

Vector's catalog-based approach provides a unique mechanism for defining services and their corresponding delivery processes in a re-usable manner. Taking advantage of Subex's pre-built Service Accelerators (service definitions) and high levels of automation, CSPs can offer flow-through provisioning for their next-generation services quickly and cost-effectively. Vector also helps eliminate much of the traditional provisioning burden and enables service providers to establish new applications and service types without extensive physical modification of the network.

The Service Creation Environment is a unique feature which allows users to swiftly develop new service definitions (including behaviors, attributes, and dependencies). Using Vector, service providers can also combine newly created services and pre-built templates to form new bundled offerings, which are then made available through the Service Catalog. All of this enables service providers to accelerate time-to-market for innovative new offerings, shorten time-to-revenue and have a clear cost advantage over competitors.

Benefits

• Easy-to-deploy solution that automates provisioning processes, shortening time-to-market for new services.
• Easy-to-use Service Creation Environment enables rapid service development and adapter creation within the Service Catalog. Ideal for systems integrators, customers, and other third parties.
• A Service Catalog approach that re-uses existing processes and service building blocks.
• Predefined "Service Accelerators" that capture fulfillment best practices and service definitions out-of-the-box.
• An open and standards-based architecture which is reliable and scalable and can be deployed on any hardware platform (Solaris, Linux , HP, etc.) and use any database (Oracle, MySQL, DB2, SQL Server).
• A fixed interface for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) that does not change with the addition of new services, reducing integration issues and thus bringing down costs and time-to-market.
• End-to-end service views, which can reduce turnaround time for Customer Care and thus improve customer experience.