An Oracle Communications Order and Service Management (OSM) cartridge defines all of the entities and system interfaces required to fulfill an order in the OSM run-time environment.
The OSM cartridge is your working area for the OSM configuration. You store all simple data elements and structured data elements in data schemas. The combined data schemas are referred to as the Data Dictionary. You use subsets of data from the Data Dictionary to create order data templates. You use data from the order template to model specific tasks. You associate tasks with a process required to fulfill incoming customer orders. You can model different types of tasks, such as automated tasks and manual tasks, and define rules for tasks at the order level. You package all configured elements and components required for deployment.
When working with OSM cartridge projects, see the following topics: