3 Assessment-to-Relaunch

This chapter describes the Assessment-to-Relaunch business process and its tasks.

About Assessment-to-Relaunch

The Assessment-to-Relaunch business process handles all design time modifications to existing catalogs. This business process supports "more of the same" product modeling that allows product managers to create, update, and publish product offerings using existing services and domains. The following are some use cases that are supported in Digital Business Experience:

• Assess and repackage your product offerings to include different services and provide new combinations of services and bundles.
• Change the price of a product offering and propagate this change across all references to this product offerings in Digital Business Experience.
• Change the structure of a product offering and modify its cardinality.
• Launch the product offering and publish all the changes to Siebel CRM and BRM PDC.

To relaunch product offerings, in Launch, you perform the following tasks, among other tasks that may be required depending on the product offering you want to modify and relaunch:

• Create a package that offers a different default service
• Create a package that offers a service with different parameters
• Create a package that offers new services and some existing services
• Create a package that offers a new bundle of services along with an existing bundle of services
• Create a new package by bundling existing bundles
• Offer a package and its component services in a new price list

Once the changes are published to the downstream applications (Siebel CRM and BRM PDC), these changes are committed and can be used for any future customer orders. Also, changes in the pricing of the existing product offerings that have been already purchased through an earlier order will reflect in the subsequent billing cycle.