Transcript Engineering a Co-operative Inter-Enterprise Management Framework

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Consortium
FORM
Engineering a Co-operative Inter-Enterprise Management Framework
- Supporting Dynamic Federated Organisations Management Partners: Atos (F - admin. Coord.), Broadcom(IRL), DELTA(DK),
Ericsson(DK), GMD-Fokus(D), KPN Research(NL), Tele Danmark(DK),
TCD(IRL), UHC(DK - Technical Coord.), UCL(UK), WIT(IRL),
Quite the same consortium participated already to PREPARE (92-95, RACE II)
and to Prospect (95-98, ACTS) in the Network & Service Management Area
The project gather a large range of European Telecommunications actors including
Network Operators, Management System providers, Management components providers,
Research Laboratories and academic partners with high level skill in the domain.
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Objectives
Engineering Component-oriented Software Systems for the Integrated
Management of Business-to-Business Services over IP
FORM aims to develop exploitable services, systems and components for
managing Inter-Enterprise - or Interprise - Services
Interprise Services aim to exploit emerging security and quality of service capabilities of the IP
networks to support dynamically configured, process driven relationships between businesses.
FORM is targeting scenarios where Interprise Services are out-sourced to an Interprise Service
Provider.
Interprise Management aims to ensure that the Interprise Services are delivered to all customers at
low cost and within agreed performance parameters.
FORM will Publicise the Interprise Management Framework through technical
dissemination, publication of guidelines and contributions to standards (TMF, OMG,
IETF, ITU, TINA, …) in order to support the marketability of the products
conforming to the Interprise Management Framework.
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Features
The major facilities which will be provided by the Interprise Management
Framework comprises:
Facilities to model the operation of customer inter-organisational co-operation
requirements, including configurable reference point segments
Customer Service Level Agreement (SLA) Negotiation, Monitoring and Enforcement Facilities
to enable ‘on-the-fly’ negotiation of co-operative agreements and support the policing of these
agreements.
Facilities to customise telecommunications services by the Interprise Provider according to the
SLAs. This requires the provisioning of customisable components for IP quality of service
management, service quality assurance management and customer care
Facilities for inter-enterprise resource supervision and charging. This accounting facility is
required by the Interprise Provider to charge for service provisioning
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FORM environment & Life cycle
Systems Management
Concepts
FORM Concepts
Network & Service
Mgmt. Concepts
Dissemination to EU,
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Interprise Management
Market Analysis
Business Process
Modelling
Scenario
Definition
Architecture
& Guidelines
Standards Bodies,Fora, ...
Exploitation
by Partners
Trial Execution
& Validation of
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Component Framework Architecture
& Trial System
Development
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FORM contacts & information
Project Manager
Hervé Karp, Atos Intégration Sophia Antipolis (France)
e-mail: [email protected]
Technical Co-ordinator
David Lewis, UH Communications A/S (Denmark)
e-mail: [email protected]
FORM Web Site (available from 1st of March 2000):
http://www.uhc.dk/form/index.htm
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