Working with Product Specifications

Note:

Product specifications are included in Design Studio for Inventory only for backward compatibility with customized solutions that require mapping services to corresponding products.

See UIM Concepts for more information about using Products in UIM.

See Design Studio Concepts for more information about using Products in a conceptual model.

Product specifications can represent any or all of the following items in your inventory:

• A service to which a customer or subscriber subscribes, such as Broadband Internet access

• A service that a service provider performs for a customer, such as equipment installation

• A piece of hardware that a customer purchases or leases

You are not required to create products in UIM. You can create services without the service being associated to a product. You can create products as a way to map to other systems that can send product information to UIM.

Product specifications can also be related to other Product specifications to constrain what products can be hierarchically related in UIM. A Product specification can be related to one or more Service specifications which constrains which services can be related to a product in UIM.

When working with Product specifications, see the following:

• Defining Product Specifications

• Product Specification Editor

• Configuring Backward Compatibility for Product Specifications