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  2. About Solution Designer

2 About Solution Designer

Solution Designer is a design tool for business users and domain experts from communications service providers. It unifies and accelerates the creation and delivery of services across Oracle Communications and minimizes the cost of ownership for operators and systems integrators. It simplifies the management and maintenance of services and networks by centralizing service, resource, and network specifications and configurations.

Introducing Solution Designer

Solution Designer enables you to model services and resources, and the interfaces between them, that make up a communications service and network solution. It enables you to create and use solutions quickly by providing a consistent design experience. It provides user journey and persona based design time user experience. It brings state-of-the-art, consumer grade user experiences across devices to the sophisticated enterprise scenarios that Oracle enables.

Solution Designer runs as a cloud native application in a containerized and orchestrated deployment architecture. It provides a unified design platform designed for business users and domain experts from communications service providers. It unifies and accelerates the creation and delivery of services across Oracle Communications and minimizes the cost of ownership for operators and systems integrators.

You can also use Solution Designer to maintain solutions and to change them over time. For example, you can quickly change your solution based on ongoing responses from customers, changes in technology, and market analysis. You use it to configure solutions at all levels of solution maturity, and over the lifetime of a solution. As requirements change, and as your communications services evolve, Solution Designer enables you to evolve your solutions.

An example solution design user journey is as follows:

  1. Service catalog administrator creates the initiative and the domains.

  2. Inventory specialist creates the data elements and the resource specifications.

  3. Network specialist creates the technology model.

  4. Service specialist creates the service model.

  5. Service catalog administrator publishes the initiative. After all the design is completed, the service catalog administrator moves it through various transitions to release it to production. As the initiative moved to testing stage it interacts with DevOps engine to build UIM cartridges for deployment. DevOps engine also generates Design Studio workspaces that developers can use to build solution cartridges for OSM and ASAP.

  6. After entire solution is tested and approved, the service catalog administrator releases the initiative to production for deployment.

For more information on Solution Designer and how to work with the user interfaces, see Solution Designer User's Guide.

About Solution Designer Applications

Solution Designer is a micro-services based cloud native application. You can manage the following applications in Solution Designer:
  • Initiatives: Solution development process that contain a set of capabilities that needs to be delivered in a given phase of OSS transformation.
  • Domains: Logical grouping or category that represents a specific area or type of service within the telecommunications industry.
  • Data Elements: Define the attributes and properties of services and resources.
  • PSR Models: Describe how customer services and technology specific RFSs are designed and implemented.
  • Specifications: Define your services including CFSs, RFSs, resources, and locations
  • Workspaces: Publish your initiatives for testing the design and launching the initiative to production.