1. Concepts
  2. Preface

Preface

This guide explains how to use Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management (UIM) to manage your telecommunications inventory. Because you use Design Studio to define the structure used to model your inventory, this guide includes information about using inventory-related features in that application.

This guide provides a conceptual understanding of UIM. For detailed steps on how to perform specific tasks see the Design Studio Help and the UIM Help.

Audience

There are multiple audiences for this guide. Some users can be responsible for doing tasks that involve using both the Design Studio and UIM applications. The audience should be knowledgeable about their company's business processes, the resources they need to model, and any products or services they offer.

  • Equipment engineers: They are responsible for creating equipment specifications and modeling equipment in UIM.

  • Network design engineers: They are responsible for creating capacity, connections, and network specifications, and using those inventory specifications to build out connections and networks.

  • Service designers: They are responsible for creating service specifications and building out services.

  • Customer service representatives: They are responsible for entering or tracking workflow.

  • Developers: They are responsible for extending the application.

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