provides integrated multi-service activation across all technology domains. The platform tackles activation of both high-volume mass-market services and more complex designer services, relying on a combination of stateless and stateful activation. Complex activation processes are enabled via the integration of two complementary solutions: Oracle Communications ASAP (a comprehensive multi-technology, multi-vendor activation platform) and Oracle Communications IPSA (an activation engine uniquely focused on delivering QoS-enabled IP-based services).

Oracle Communications Service Activation enables transactional integrity across the end-to-end activation process, providing a full audit trail for each activation request and supporting a host of advanced activation processing features like order control, cancellations, supplemental orders, intelligent error processing, and configurable rollback. This depth of activation control enables real-time service delivery for complex multi-service activation requests, limits capex by leveraging investments in existing activation systems, trims opex by enabling systems consolidation as providers evolve to a single, multi-service activation platform and presents a low-risk, cost-effective path for transitioning current activation systems to a next-generation activation platform.

“Oracle’s strategy is to help our customers transform their business to the degree that they need to transform it—some need wholesale transformation,

 

THE ANSWER TO IMPROVING EFFICIENCY LIES IN MORE EFFECTIVE NETWORK ADMINISTRATION, PREVENTING WASTE AND PROTECTING THE INTEGRITY OF THE BALANCE SHEET.

others need to transform smaller parts of their business,” Sheahan says. “Most operators are ill-equipped to handle that. So we’re helping them—we collaborate with them on products, and we deliver their partners of choice to implement these changes.”

Another critical element: The Oracle Communications Service Delivery portfolio, which boasts standards-based telecom network services layer middleware and application products to enable operators, enterprises and developers to channel and cross-lever-age the web, telecommunications, social networking and IT to more rapidly and cost effectively forge new and converged Internet-based communication services. The Oracle Communications Service Delivery product family encompasses service creation, execution, exposure and management capabilities and includes the Oracle Communications Converged Application Server (formerly BEA WebLogic SIP Server), a converged Java EE-SIP-IMS app server created specifically for IP-based NGN/IMS, VoIP and NGIN deployments.

The Oracle Communications Service Delivery portfolio also features the Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper (formerly BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper), the industry’s most widely deployed network service exposure and service delivery platform policy and partner management system, which offers converged Web-SOA-telecom network service exposure and policy enforcement to facilitate third-party